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two new five-year arts plans

  • Written by: Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne
two new five-year arts plansKate Sherman and Nicci Wilks in Theatreworks' 2016 production of the play Animal. The acclaimed Melbourne theatre company has lost its long-term Australia Council funding. Theatreworks

A new five-year South Australian Arts Plan was launched this week. But there was a strange disconnect between an acknowledgement by the consultants of a problem in...

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what home gardeners can learn from nature's rebirth after fire

  • Written by: Kingsley Dixon, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University

A startling phenomenon occurs after a bushfire tears through a landscape. From the blackened soil springs an extraordinary natural revival – synchronised germination that carpets the landscape in flowers and colour.

So what is it in bushfires that gives plants this kiss of life? The answer is smoke, and it is increasingly transforming...

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Locking up legally innocent people before their trial is straining Victoria’s prisons

  • Written by: Marilyn McMahon, Deputy Dean, School of Law, Deakin University
Locking up legally innocent people before their trial is straining Victoria’s prisonsDespite opening a new prison in 2017, Victoria's prisons are still overcrowded. Shutterstock

Victoria is facing an incarceration crisis. Despite a new prison (Ravenhall) opening in 2017, the state’s prison system is under enormous strain, with the premier recently announcing prefabricated prison cells would be introduced in existing prisons...

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Can we heal teeth? The quest to repair tooth enamel, nature's crystal coat

  • Written by: Arosha Weerakoon, Lecturer, General Dentist & PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
Can we heal teeth? The quest to repair tooth enamel, nature's crystal coatThe enamel on your teeth is what makes them sparkle. It also acts as a protective coating on the teeth.From shutterstock.com

Tooth enamel is one of the hardest tissues in the human body. It acts as a protective layer for our teeth, and gives our smile that pearly white shimmer. But when enamel erodes, it can’t regrow itself.

In a significant s...

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  1. 50 years of the Kaldor Foundation
  2. Many sick and disabled people are refused permanent visas. We need compassion not discrimination
  3. lessons from stone – Indigenous thinking and the Law
  4. female jockeys are more prevalent, but still treated as outsiders
  5. a source of dangerous bacteria in remote communities' water supply
  6. 3 ways planners can defy the odds to promote good health for all of us
  7. NAPLAN tests are not tough enough for the level of maths students are studying
  8. Vital Signs. Sure, economic growth is low, but think about what's gone right
  9. When schmoozing the PM gets you a black eye
  10. Journalism is failing climate change
  11. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on a slowing economy
  12. the truth about electric vehicle emissions
  13. With conventional wisdom, answers to our economic malaise are in short supply
  14. Trump trails leading Democrats by record margins, plus Brexit latest and the LNP leads in Queensland
  15. Tiny specks in space could be the key to finding martian life
  16. Relaxing pharmacy ownership rules could result in more chemist chains and poorer care
  17. Kids learn valuable life skills through rough-and-tumble play with their dads
  18. what exactly do musical conductors do?
  19. Thinking of seeing a psychologist? Here's how to choose the therapy best for you
  20. Indigenous people no longer have the legal right to say no to the Adani mine
  21. Apple iPhones could have been hacked for years – here's what to do about it
  22. Outgoing ASIO head hopes for greater public preparedness to defend Australian sovereignty
  23. Why we've the weakest economy since the global financial crisis, with few clear ways out
  24. Agriculture a likely stumbling block in free trade negotiations between NZ and EU
  25. why are some people affected by sleep paralysis?
  26. where it hit, where it's headed, and why it's so destructive
  27. why are so many musicals adapted from movies?
  28. Health and sustainability market could be worth $25 billion to Australian producers by 2030
  29. Yes, you can hold an Australian passport but not be a citizen – here's how
  30. this sea snake gathers oxygen through its forehead
  31. Nice try Mr Taylor, but Australia's gas exports don't help solve climate change
  32. why your backyard lawn doesn't help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
  33. there's little evidence PFAS exposure harms our health
  34. the year's best photos of landscapes and living things
  35. people in their 90s are Australia's fastest growing senior age group
  36. how new tech could allow effective, sustainable land sharing
  37. After 44 years of deficits, we've a current account surplus. What went so right?
  38. Morrison and Dutton block their ears and grit their teeth over Tamil family
  39. We don't know menopausal hormone therapy causes breast cancer, but the evidence continues to suggest a link
  40. why the New Zealand government needs to act cautiously but quickly
  41. Maxine Peake brings warmth and likeability to raw, bitter pain in a candid tale of IVF failure
  42. 3 ways to help sex offenders safely reintegrate back into the community
  43. In the Democrats' bitter race to find a candidate to beat Trump, might Elizabeth Warren hold the key?
  44. IVF changes babies' genes but these differences disappear by adulthood
  45. it starts out OK, but goes downhill pretty quickly
  46. Not so bad. Most of us who work long hours like the jobs we are in. Those who don't, change jobs quickly
  47. how to love a concrete beast
  48. What it takes to navigate cultural differences in a global business world
  49. Bali's Green School inspires a global renaissance
  50. Victorians who switched energy retailers only save $45 a year – leaving hundreds on the table

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