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Changes to the pension asset test will ripple through the economy

  • Written by: Warren McKeown, Teaching fellow, University of Melbourne

On January 1, 2017 the age pension will undergo significant changes. Changes to the assets test, which determine who can receive a pension and how much, could see 166,000 pensioners receive an increase in their entitlements. But many people will also have their pensions reduced and others will become ineligible entirely.

These headline numbers are...

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Alien invaders: the illegal reptile trade is a serious threat to Australia

  • Written by: Pablo García-Díaz, PhD candidate in invasion ecology, University of Adelaide
imageBoa constrictors are frequently found at large in Australia, despite being banned.Marcos André/flickr, CC BY

Australians are banned from keeping non-native reptiles as pets, but there is a nevertheless a thriving illegal trade in these often highly prized animals. We have documented the threat that these species – many of them venomous...

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The red professor and the white anting that continues to this day

  • Written by: Christine Judith Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in Australian Studies, Flinders University
imageRose and Groote Eylandters Nertichunga, Machana and Nabia, Groote Eylandt, 1941.Courtesy of SLNSW, Frederick Rose papers, Box 5

In late 1981, I was appointed to Groote Eylandt to work on an established bilingual Anindilyakwa and English education program, to which the local people were committed.

In the end I didn’t take up the position...

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Of microbes and machines: how art and science fuse in Bio-art

  • Written by: Sean Redmond, Associate Professor of Media and Communication, Deakin University
imageThe mitotic spindle inside a living cell, magnified x 80,000, captured by biomedical animator Drew Berry. Drew Barry/Morbis Artis: Diseases of the ArtsimageA San Diego beach scene drawn with an eight color palette of bacterial colonies expressing fluorescent proteins.Artwork by Nathan Shaner, photography by Paul Steinbach, created in the lab of Roger...

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