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Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on it

  • Written by: Devi Veytia, PhD student , University of Tasmania
Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on itBrett Wilks

The Southern Ocean circling Antarctica is one of Earth’s richest marine ecosystems. Its food webs support an abundance of life, from tiny micro-organisms to seals, penguins and several species of whales. But climate change is set to disrupt this delicate balance.

Antarctic krill – finger-sized, swarming crustaceans –...

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how history might read Morrison's coronavirus leadership

  • Written by: Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
how history might read Morrison's coronavirus leadershipWes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

What does political leadership look like in a pandemic?

Many of us probably carry images in our heads of what good leadership might be in a depression or a war. But before 2020 few of us would have had any conception of what political leadership might look like during a life-threatening public health crisis.

We...

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Fang Fang's Wuhan diaries are a personal account of shared memory

  • Written by: Meng Xia, PhD candidate on Literature, memory and trauma, UNSW

Starting on January 25 2020, novelist and poet Fang Fang has posted 60 daily diary entries about life and death in her home town of Wuhan to WeChat, China’s most popular social media platform.

Born in 1955, Fang has a long and respected career as a writer of poems, novels and novellas. She won the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2010,...

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  33. voices from the bush – how lockdown affects remote Indigenous communities differently
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