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Bulging ear drums and hearing loss: Aboriginal kids have the highest otitis media rates in the world

  • Written by: Amanda Leach, Professor. Leader of the Ear Health Research Program (EHRP), Child Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research

This article is the final in our three-part series on blinding, deafening and sometimes deadly conditions in Indigenous Australian children that have little to no impact on their non-Indigenous counterparts. The previous articles looked at trachoma and rheumatic heart disease.


Aboriginal children have the highest rates of otitis media, a middle ear...

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Drilling in the Bight: has BP learnt the right lessons from its Gulf of Mexico blowout?

  • Written by: Andrew Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University

The Guardian newspaper recently hit a wall of non-response when it raised concerns about the possibility of an oil well blowout in BP’s proposed drilling operations in the Great Australian Bight.

The facts are that bolts on drilling rigs used in other parts of the world have been found to be defective, with the potential to fail...

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Kangaroo Island's choice: a new cable to the mainland, or renewable power

  • Written by: Chris Dunstan, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
imageCan Kangaroo Island's pioneering spirit be harnessed in the push for renewable energy?Dider B/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

South Australia’s iconic Kangaroo Island, the site of Australia’s first free settled colony, could pioneer a new age of renewable energy, according to our new research.

The first hardy settlers in 1836 had to decide...

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