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Nice attack brings a difficult question into sharp focus: why France?

  • Written by: Philomena Murray, Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences and EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges, University of Melbourne
imageA man sits and reflects alongside the French flag near the site of the Nice attack.Reuters/Eric Gaillard

If you live in France, you enjoy Bastille Day. There is a buzz in the air as you celebrate a day off in the middle of summer with your family and friends. You go to the fireworks. It is good to be in France and to remember the founding...

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Why the health scheme for coal workers is inadequate to detect black lung

  • Written by: Malcolm Sim, Professor, Epidemiology & Preventative Medicine, Monash University
imageRadiologists will struggle to find black lung in x-rays if they haven't been told to look for it.from www.shutterstock.com.au

Recent cases of black lung in Queensland coal miners after many years of no known cases have raised important questions about control of dust exposure in coal mines, as well as the adequacy of medical screening to detect...

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You scratch my back... the beneficial (and not so beneficial) relationships between organisms

  • Written by: Andrew Taylor-Robinson, Professor of Immunology/Haematology & Research Coordinator, Infectious Diseases, CQUniversity Australia
imageFleas get a free ride - and there's not much in it for the dog. Kristian Niemi/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

To call someone a “parasite” is an insult. But the word has rather a different meaning in biology.

Etymologically speaking, the earliest known record of the word parasite in the English language was in 1539, when it was defined as “a...

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Some answers, more questions over Dick Smith failure

  • Written by: Roman Lanis, Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney

In their report on the demise of Dick Smith, McGrathNicol liquidators pinpointed dubious accounting methods that are known in the industry as “real activities management”.

The practices, involving manipulating sales figures and stock inventories saw Dick Smith purchasing excessive amounts of inventory in order to fill their rapid...

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