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Why port privatisation plans are in deep water around the country

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imageThe Port of Melbourne Corporation is reportedly seeking to increase rents to container stevedore DP World, by 700%.AAP/David Crosling

Recent plans the privatise a number of Australian ports have become very messy. In Victoria both sides of government were committed to privatising the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC), intending to use the...

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Scary king cricket is a beautiful example of evolution at its best

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imageA member of the King Cricket family, aka the Parktown prawn, is found across the southern hemisphere.Lourens Durand/Shutterstock

South Africa’s notorious Parktown prawn gets its name from the leafy Johannesburg suburb where it has flourished and spread since migrating to the city from the moist eastern forests of the country’s lowveld es...

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When there's meaning in mathematical mistakes

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imageTeachers can learn a great deal from their pupils' mistakes in maths.From www.shutterstock.com

A grade one learner is enjoying school tremendously, but one day she comes home unhappy. Her mother asks why she is so upset and the child replies: “First my teacher told me that 3+3 = 6, then she told me that 4+2 = 6 and then she told me that 5+1 =...

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