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After the floods come the mosquitoes – but the disease risk is more difficult to predict

  • Written by: Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney

We’re often warned to avoid mosquito bites after major flooding events. With more water around, there are likely to be more mosquitoes.

As flood waters recede around Townsville and clean-up efforts continue, the local population will be faced with this prospect over the coming weeks.

But whether a greater number of mosquitoes is likely to...

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The Lawyer X scandal is a massive blow to the criminal justice system: here's why

  • Written by: Jeremy Gans, Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
The Lawyer X scandal is a massive blow to the criminal justice system: here's whyNo-one can be convicted or punished for a crime unless there has first been a fair trial.from shutterstock.com

Imagine you were charged with a serious crime. Then, you found out your lawyer – whether it’s a silk from the top end of town or one from Legal Aid – was only pretending to work for you. Worse, she actually turned out to...

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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, prodigiously talented painter

  • Written by: Peter McPhee, Emeritus professor, University of Melbourne
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, prodigiously talented painterAn 1808 painting by Marie-Gabrielle Capet titled Atelier of Madame Vincent, showing Labille-Guiard at work (centre) as Capet fills her palette. Wikimedia Commons

In this series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages.

Born in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a supremely talented painter who forged her career at a time...

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  2. What has Australia learned from Black Saturday?
  3. Climate change is poised to deliver more Black Saturdays in decades to come
  4. Ten years ago, climate adaptation research was gaining steam. Today, it's gutted
  5. How a bushfire can destroy a home
  6. 70 years before Black Saturday, the birth of the Victorian CFA was a sad tale of politics as usual
  7. Dry lightning has set Tasmania ablaze, and climate change makes it more likely to happen again
  8. Ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica predicted to bring more frequent extreme weather
  9. Does microdosing improve your mood and performance? Here's what the research says
  10. One in six Australian women in their 30s have had an abortion – and we're starting to understand why
  11. Can bees do maths? Yes – new research shows they can add and subtract
  12. What TV comedy The Good Place tells us about why banks and other corporations do bad things
  13. Five tips to make school bookshelves more diverse and five books to get you started
  14. Where are the in-depth documentaries calling to account the institutions that are failing us?
  15. What is Islamic dispute resolution and why is it controversial in Australia?
  16. Morrison plays scare card on medical transfer bill
  17. One Infinity explores tension and connection between China and the West
  18. why are burps so loud?
  19. do we really need to take 10,000 steps a day?
  20. Old bones reveal new evidence about the role of islands in penguin evolution
  21. The Treaty of Waitangi and its influence on identity politics in New Zealand
  22. What actually is populism? And why does it have a bad reputation?
  23. Whose hearts, livers and lungs are transplanted in China? Origins must be clear in human organ research
  24. Considering using IVF to have a baby? Here's what you need to know
  25. How Hayne failed remote Australia
  26. How public ineptitude and private enterprise combined to give Venezuela hyperinflation
  27. Feminist hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been stifled by a new patriarchal construct: the cinema
  28. why the physical environment is important too
  29. Is social housing essential infrastructure? How we think about it does matter
  30. the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi
  31. Why bank shares are climbing despite the royal commission
  32. we should legislate on Hayne recommendations before election
  33. Michael McCormack on banks and the bush, and the election battle
  34. The shocking use of 'jiggers' in horse racing
  35. Just So You Know...The Conversation launches a Q&A service for teens
  36. Queensland's floods are so huge the only way to track them is from space
  37. Cladding fires expose gaps in building material safety checks. Here's a solution
  38. Our 'bee-eye camera' helps us support bees, grow food and protect the environment
  39. Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result puts autism front and centre
  40. Five warning signs of overdiagnosis
  41. Hayne's failure to tackle bank structure means that in a decade or so another treasurer will have to call another royal commission
  42. Influential doctors aren't disclosing their drug company ties
  43. the real problem is how we value executives and workers
  44. Australians accept government surveillance, for now
  45. a 10-point plan to fix the residential building industry
  46. We discovered a warped and twisted disc of young, massive stars at the edge of our Milky Way
  47. There's insufficient evidence your sunscreen harms coral reefs
  48. Tarpe Mills, 1940s comic writer, and her feisty superhero Miss Fury
  49. Murray-Darling report shows public authorities must take climate change risk seriously
  50. no commissions, no exemptions, no fees without permission. Hayne gets the government to do a U-turn

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