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When a tree dies, don't waste your breath. Rescue the wood to honour its memory

  • Written by Cris Brack, Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
When a tree dies, don't waste your breath. Rescue the wood to honour its memoryTurning a street tree into timber is much more respectful and useful than mulching it all.Author provided

Trees die. You don’t have to like it, but they do. And this comes as a surprise to some. A senior public servant once told one of us (Brack): “Trees don’t die; people kill them.”

Of course sometimes we kill trees,...

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Shareholder activism might sound good, but it's delusional to think it will change anything much

  • Written by Warren Staples, Senior Lecturer in Management, RMIT University

In the wake of systemic corporate misconduct scandals such as those brought to light in the banking royal commission, and issues such as income inequality and climate change, there are growing public demands for increased corporate accountability and less emphasis on shareholder returns.

Corporate governance reform has become a hot button...

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Photojournalists are telling an important story and they should interact with their subjects

  • Written by T.J. Thomson, Lecturer in Digital Journalism & Professional Communication, Queensland University of Technology

We can’t all be at city council meetings or down at parliament house directly engaging with the issues that affect us. But through photography and video, we’re able to orient ourselves to the rest of the world.

After observing hundreds of hours of interactions between journalists and those they photograph and interviewing more than 40...

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Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze

  • Written by Ross Bradstock, Professor, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong
Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablazeMultiple large, intense fires are stretching from Australia's coast to the tablelands and parts of the interiorAAP Image/Supplied, JPSS

Last week saw an unprecedented outbreak of large, intense fires stretching from the mid-north coast of New South Wales into central Queensland.

The most tragic losses are concentrated in northern NSW, where 970,000...

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  1. 3-parent IVF could prevent illness in many children (but it's really more like 2.002-parent IVF)
  2. No, a 'complex' system is not to blame for corporate wage theft
  3. Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don't want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?
  4. Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen data
  5. The open access shift at UWA Publishing is an experiment doomed to fail
  6. The government is committed to an Indigenous voice. We should give it a chance to work
  7. We may one day grow babies outside the womb, but there are many things to consider first
  8. Reading progress is falling between year 5 and 7, especially for advantaged students: 5 charts
  9. Frozen in time, the casts of Indigenous Australians who performed in 'human zoos' are chilling
  10. Why Australia is still grappling with the legacy of the first world war
  11. Smart tech systems cut congestion for a fraction of what new roads cost
  12. Another COAG meeting, another limp swing at the waste problem
  13. Government set to win its new powers against unions
  14. When the coroner looked at how to cut drug deaths at music festivals, the evidence won. But what happens next?
  15. Are flexible learning options giving schools a convenient way out of taking responsibility for 'difficult' students?
  16. Oh, oh, oh! The clitoris certainly gives pleasure. But does it also help women conceive?
  17. does monetary policy work any more?
  18. Want more jobs in Australia? Cut our ore exports and make more metals at home
  19. Pass the popcorn - Scorsese cinema boycott will shape the future of movies
  20. How NZ's colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka
  21. Michelle Grattan on the government's drought relief package and Labor's election post-mortem
  22. Labor's election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke
  23. the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court
  24. Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here's why a ban's the only answer
  25. Remote Indigenous Australia's ecological economies give us something to build on
  26. a short, sharp history of the bayonet
  27. Labor's post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done
  28. Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home
  29. Queensland Health's history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be
  30. Australia's drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point
  31. Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist
  32. Labor's election post-mortem warns against 'becoming a grievance-based organisation'
  33. This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness
  34. Abusing a robot won't hurt it, but it could make you a crueller person
  35. Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany is still working to meet east with west
  36. Australian unis' financial strife in three charts
  37. Scientists looked at sea levels 125,000 years in the past. The results are terrifying
  38. men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women
  39. How to deal with smartphone stress
  40. Government sets up concessional loan scheme for drought-hit small businesses
  41. Trump could win again despite losing popular vote, as Biden retakes lead in Democratic polls
  42. Tweaking prescribing rules won't fix chemical restraint in aged care
  43. I teach and play gospel music and I think Kanye's Jesus is King is a remarkable gospel album
  44. Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there's a way to avoid it
  45. Churches have legal rights in Australia. Why not sacred trees?
  46. Australia is spending less on diplomacy than ever before – and its influence is suffering as a result
  47. the ghostly photos taken by the Stasi's hidden cameras
  48. climate change isn't just about temperature
  49. How do solar panels work?
  50. why Mars is cold despite an atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide

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