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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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  25. The land we play on: equality doesn’t mean justice
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