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The Queensland Dragon Heath is like a creature in the mist

  • Written by: Fanie Venter, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Sign up to Beating Around the Bush, a series that profiles native plants: part gardening column, part dispatches from country, entirely Australian.


The Queensland Dragon Heath, or Dracophyllum sayeri, is a small, open-branched tree that grows up to 8 metres tall. It also looks decidedly as if someone has stuck pineapple plants or...

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Cladding fire risks have been known for years. Lives depend on acting now, with no more delays

  • Written by: Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, UNSW

The fire at the Neo200 building on Spencer Street in the Melbourne CBD this week has eerie similarities to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Fortunately, instead of 72 people dead as at Grenfell, only one person was hospitalised for smoke inhalation.


Read more: Cladding fires expose gaps in building material safety checks. Here's a...

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Tim Wilson's 'retirement tax' website doesn't have a privacy policy. So how is he using the data?

  • Written by: Andre Oboler, Senior Lecturer, Master of Cyber-Security Program (Law), La Trobe University

A growing debate over Labor’s policy to end cash rebates for excess franking credits has led to calls for the chair of parliament’s economics committee, Liberal MP Tim Wilson, to resign.

Labor has accused Wilson of using a parliamentary inquiry into the policy to spearhead a partisan campaign against it.

Part of the controversy revolves...

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  10. Defence mechanisms. Why NAB chairman Ken Henry lost his job
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  12. NAB's Andrew Thorburn and Ken Henry quit after royal commission lashing
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  14. The Lawyer X scandal is a massive blow to the criminal justice system: here's why
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  17. The collapse of the US-Russia INF Treaty makes arms control a global priority
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  20. Ten years ago, climate adaptation research was gaining steam. Today, it's gutted
  21. How a bushfire can destroy a home
  22. 70 years before Black Saturday, the birth of the Victorian CFA was a sad tale of politics as usual
  23. Dry lightning has set Tasmania ablaze, and climate change makes it more likely to happen again
  24. Ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica predicted to bring more frequent extreme weather
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  27. Can bees do maths? Yes – new research shows they can add and subtract
  28. What TV comedy The Good Place tells us about why banks and other corporations do bad things
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  30. Where are the in-depth documentaries calling to account the institutions that are failing us?
  31. What is Islamic dispute resolution and why is it controversial in Australia?
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  33. One Infinity explores tension and connection between China and the West
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