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Trench art tells a story of survival and resilience

  • Written by: Melinda Graefe, PhD candidate in English, Flinders University
image'Universal Soldier', 2014.Tony Albert, Australia, born 1981, Girramay/Kuku Yalandji people, Queensland, courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, photo by Greg Piper

For many Australians, our perceptions of the first world war and the foreign lands on which that war was fought have been shaped by our family’s war mementos: medals,...

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Explainer: how do our bodies balance themselves?

  • Written by: Lauren Poppi, PhD candidate in Anatomy, University of Newcastle
imageWe don't tend to realise it, but there are complex processes happening in our body at all times just to keep us upright. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Balance is the vital sense that gives much-needed stability to our teetering, upright bodies. Good balance is usually associated with having stable posture, but it also has a lot to do with visual...

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Prospective higher education students need better information about admissions process: Shergold report

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

More students than ever before have the opportunity for higher education but their choices are being undermined by a confusing admissions system in much need of reform.

This is the conclusion of a report to Education Minister Simon Birmingham, which points to “a paradoxical situation”.

“Entry into universities has become more...

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Humans are still evolving but in ways that might surprise you

  • Written by: Darren Curnoe, Director of the Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre (PANGEA), UNSW Australia
imageA sea of humans at a sporting match (Image: "orange and blue" by Rhett Maxwell").Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

It’s often said that through our innovations in science, agriculture and medicine humans have become masters of our biological destiny.

That we’ve seized control of our evolution, eliminating most of the causes of death and...

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  2. Raimond Gaita on Donald Trump's America: a cloud cuckoo land devoid of fact, evidence and argument
  3. Banks are hedging their bets on costly branch networks
  4. Forty years of measuring the world's cleanest air reveals human fingerprints on the atmosphere
  5. Change section 18C? Critics should do this crash course first
  6. Women aren't the problem in the film industry, men are
  7. Why virtual reality won't replace cadavers in medical school
  8. Nothing to see here? The abuse and neglect of children in care is a century-old story in Australia
  9. Hurt by sea: how storm surges and sea-level rise make coastal life risky
  10. If smoking doesn't kill, Mike Pence, neither does the plague
  11. Underwater health check shows kelp forests are declining around the world
  12. Women in prison: histories of trauma and abuse highlight the need for specialised care
  13. Why was Shakespeare's death such at non-event at the time?
  14. Australian business should hold fire in reacting to Trump election
  15. Scabies: a neglected parasitic disease we already know how to treat
  16. Xenophon tells voters he's still considering lifetime ban bill
  17. World set for hottest year on record: World Meteorological Organization
  18. Be prepared, always: the tsunami message from New Zealand's latest earthquake
  19. What happened in New Zealand's magnitude 7.5 earthquake
  20. Health Check: is cheese good for you?
  21. Trump’s victory spells trouble but also exciting, unimagined opportunities
  22. Policy uncertainty continues to hamper carbon emissions management
  23. To understand how storms batter Australia, we need a fresh deluge of data
  24. Plan to reduce Indigenous suicides finally acknowledges lack of evidence and need for hope
  25. Clinton's loss was not because of sexism, but because she wasn't radical enough
  26. Fossil fuel emissions have stalled: Global Carbon Budget 2016
  27. US deal is a good news story for refugees -- here's why it took so long
  28. Turnbull's asylum seeker ban violates Australia's human rights obligations
  29. Franchisees don't do their homework and are too optimistic about risks: research
  30. Why Trump's victory will mean the end of US soft power
  31. David Hockney interrogates space and time
  32. Sexually transmissible infections on the rise in Australia: a snapshot
  33. We need more support systems for people who want to work during and after cancer treatment
  34. Tasmanian devils reared in captivity show they can thrive in the wild
  35. IBM's Watson would do a better job at being a bank teller than most current staff
  36. A deal to be welcomed but detail is missing
  37. Australia shores up defences against asylum seekers as US deal provides escape for refugees
  38. Newspoll: Labor gains to lead 53-47
  39. A blaze of light in every word: vale Leonard Cohen
  40. The view from Marrakech: climate talks are battling through a Trump tsunami
  41. As a writer-musician, Leonard Cohen was a one-off
  42. Goodbye Leonard, you brought us so much light
  43. Trump's win shows how vital the arts and humanities are
  44. On a bad day, some blue sky..
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  46. What might a Trump presidency mean for Muslims and the Muslim world?
  47. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Australia's reaction to the Trump victory
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