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Australia's special dependency on volunteers to battle bushfires

  • Written by: Michelle Cull, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Financial Planning, Western Sydney University

Australia’s unprecedented bushfires have cemented its rural firefighters at the heart of the nation’s identity.

It’s not just that these men and women put themselves in the line of fire. It’s that these “firies” are almost all volunteers, battling blazes for sheer love of their local community.

Relying on...

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how unis have supported students after a crisis

  • Written by: Prue Gonzalez, Lecturer in Environmental Management, Charles Sturt University

Universities across Australia – including in Canberra, Wollongong and Newcastle – have had to close their campuses in the past few months as a result of bushfires.

But the deep and long-lasting impacts of the crisis are set to pose a challenge for Australian universities beyond just the immediate response.

Of the more than one million...

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the public art teacher who brought the Blue Poles to Australia

  • Written by: Sue Rabbitt Roff, Researcher, Social History/Tutor in Medical Education, University of Dundee
the public art teacher who brought the Blue Poles to AustraliaThen prime minister Gough Whitlam and director of the Australian National Gallery James Mollison in front of Blue Poles in 1973.© Pollock-Krasner Foundation. ARS/Copyright Agency

James Mollison, the founding director of the National Gallery of Australia, died on Sunday at the age of 88. He was a pivotal force in Australian art collecting,...

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Scott Morrison orders probe into whether Bridget McKenzie breached ministerial code

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Scott Morrison orders probe into whether Bridget McKenzie breached ministerial codeBridget McKenzie was a member of a shooting club that received $36,000 in grant money.Lukas Coch/AAP

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ordered the secretary of his department, Phil Gaetjens, to advise whether deputy Nationals leader Bridget McKenzie breached the ministerial code of conduct in the sports rorts affair.

A statement from the prime...

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  2. Does social media make us more or less lonely? Depends on how you use it
  3. As Earth's population heads to 10 billion, does anything Australians do on climate change matter?
  4. Inside the story: The Trauma Cleaner
  5. The science backs Harry and Meghan turning in their royal privilege. Fame and fortune aren't the keys to happiness
  6. Scientists hate to say 'I told you so'. But Australia, you were warned
  7. We found the world's oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia. It might have triggered a global thaw
  8. even hustlers need side hustles in the gig economy
  9. Juries need to be told how they're allowed to use the internet to ensure fair trials
  10. Bushfire education is too abstract. We need to get children into the real world
  11. I’m taking antibiotics – how do I know I've been prescribed the right ones?
  12. New year, new strategy? Unheralded change to budget targets creates space for stimulus
  13. Australia needs more engineers. And more of them need to be women
  14. It's hard for people with severe mental illness to get in the NDIS – and the problems don't stop there
  15. Many of our plants and animals have adapted to fires, but now the fires are changing
  16. how schools can help students cope after the bushfires
  17. Conservation scientists are grieving after the bushfires -- but we must not give up
  18. Preventing suicide in nursing homes is possible. Here are 3 things we can do to make a start
  19. You think this is a witch hunt, Mr President? That's an insult to the women who suffered
  20. Cousin took a DNA test? Courts could use it to argue you are more likely to commit crimes
  21. Unbuilding cities as high-rises reach their use-by date
  22. Prisoner numbers in Australia have decreased, but we're not really sure why yet
  23. Morrison should control that temper in Liberal climate debate
  24. Australia's threatened bats need protection from a silent killer: white-nose syndrome
  25. exceptional singing and music obscure the political heart of this classic Australian musical
  26. CSIRO wants our laws turned into computer code. Here's why that's a bad idea
  27. A brain transplant for one of Australia's top telescopes
  28. What makes a good psychologist or psychiatrist and how do you find one you like?
  29. Who can break up the 'Big 3' monopoly on men's tennis? Here's what the numbers say
  30. Forest thinning is controversial, but it shouldn’t be ruled out for managing bushfires
  31. scientists create first ever living, programmable organism
  32. How effective is the pill?
  33. Celebrity concern about bushfires could do more harm than good. To help they need to put boots on the ground
  34. Six million hectares of threatened species habitat up in smoke
  35. Before we rush to rebuild after fires, we need to think about where and how
  36. Australian sea lions are declining. Using drones to check their health can help us understand why
  37. With costs approaching $100 billion, the fires are Australia's costliest natural disaster
  38. In cases of cardiac arrest, time is everything. Community responders can save lives
  39. So the government gave sports grants to marginal seats. What happens now?
  40. The Olympics have always been a platform for protest. Banning hand gestures and kneeling ignores their history
  41. how fraudsters take advantage of those in need
  42. Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals
  43. 'What subjects do I choose for my last years of school?'
  44. To improve firefighters' mental health, we can't wait for them to reach out – we need to 'reach in'
  45. the end of the checkout signals a dire future for those without the right skills
  46. Yes, native plants can flourish after bushfire. But there’s only so much hardship they can take
  47. Take care when examining the economic impact of fires. GDP doesn't tell the full story
  48. Homosexuality may have evolved for social, not sexual reasons
  49. what's just happened and what's in store for Putin beyond 2024?
  50. How an Aussie invention could soon cut 5% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions

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