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Vaccine for strep throat and rheumatic fever to be trialled in humans

  • Written by: Chris Davis, General Manager Executive, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University
imageNot only will a nasal vaccine avoid the 'ouch' factor, it gets the vaccine straight to the most common site of infection.from www.shutterstock.com.au

Infection with group A streptococcus bacteria (strep A) leads to a wide array of diseases. These range from uncomplicated infections such as strep throat (tonsillitis) and skin sores (impetigo),...

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Baz’s Bronx: Get Down or Let Down?

  • Written by: Lachlan MacDowall, Head, Centre for Cultural Partnerships Faculty of the VCA and MCM, University of Melbourne
imageMamoudou as Grandmaster Flash and Shameik Moore as Shaolin Fantastic in Baz Lurhmann's The Get Down. Supplied

On August 12, Netflix will screen the latest project by Australian film director Baz Luhrmann. The Get Down is a twelve-part television series set in the Bronx in the 1970s that chronicles the birth of disco, punk and particularly hip-hop,...

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Rethinking youth justice: there are alternatives to juvenile detention

  • Written by: Jodie O'Leary, Assistant Professor in Criminal Law/International Criminal Law, Bond University
imageRather than assisting in prevention and allowing children to mature out of offending, juvenile detention does the opposite.AAP/Neda Vanovac

The recent exposure of the abuse inflicted on child detainees at the Don Dale facility in the Northern Territory has shone a much-needed light on youth justice in Australia.

Important questions are being asked...

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  7. NAPLAN results don't tell the full story behind Australia's lack of education progress
  8. Zika, or dengue and Chikungunya: what should you be worried about at the Rio Olympics?
  9. Turnbull to banks: pass on whole interest rate cut
  10. PC sets groundwork for long-awaited look at super competition and efficiency
  11. The traditionalists are restless, so why don't they have a party of their own in Australia?
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  13. Making waves: the tsunami risk in Australia
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  17. Jihad Selfie: listening to 'the other side' in documentary film
  18. Ghost-hunting: will the census reveal the true scale of homelessness in Australia?
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  20. Is the concept of 'helicopter money' set for a resurgence?
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  25. The land we play on: equality doesn’t mean justice
  26. The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible
  27. In praise of the Sirius building, a ruined remnant of idealistic times
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  29. Dhaka café attack: don't blame private education for radicalisation in Bangladesh
  30. Politics podcast: Tom Calma says Nigel Scullion should go
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  37. If Australia is going to have a plebiscite on marriage equality, how should it work?
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  39. High speed rail plan still needs to prove economic benefits will outweigh costs
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The strategic rise of Bali as Australia’s next essential healthcare support hub

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