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how outer urban areas can manage the emergency while reducing future risks

  • Written by: Elisa Palazzo, Urbanist and landscape planner - Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW
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First the drought, then bushfires and then flash floods: a chain of extreme events hit Australia hard in recent months. The coronavirus pandemic has only temporarily shifted our attention towards a new emergency, adding yet another risk.

We knew from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the risk of...

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Great time to try: baking sourdough bread

  • Written by: Lyndal Collins, Research dietitian, Department of Gastroenterology, Monash University
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In the midst of this global pandemic, a sourdough revolution has been born.

More time at home combined with supermarket shortages of essentials, has fostered the creativity of a whole new generation of home bakers.

If your Instagram feed is filled with everyone’s favourite new housemate, the sourdough starter, you may be...

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How might coronavirus change Australia's 'Pacific Step-up'?

  • Written by: Tess Newton Cain, Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
How might coronavirus change Australia's 'Pacific Step-up'?Scott Morrison attends the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu in 2019. Mick Tsikas/AAP

Across the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has prompted countries and governments to become increasingly inward-looking. Australia is not immune to this. One of the effects of this situation has been that the “Pacific Step-up” appears to have dropped...

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Snowy 2.0 threatens to pollute our rivers and wipe out native fish

  • Written by: John Harris, Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW
Snowy 2.0 threatens to pollute our rivers and wipe out native fishSchopier/Wikimedia

The federal government’s Snowy 2.0 energy venture is controversial for many reasons, but one has largely escaped public attention. The project threatens to devastate aquatic life by introducing predators and polluting important rivers. It may even push one fish species to extinction.

The environmental impact statement for...

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  3. Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy predicts more than 50% take-up of COVID tracing app
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  5. oral accounts illuminate past encounters and objects, but we need to get our story straight
  6. Virgin Australia was never going to last
  7. Mums with an intellectual disability already risk family violence and losing their kids. Coronavirus could make things worse
  8. ANU will invigilate exams using remote software, and many students are unhappy
  9. Urban Aboriginal people face unique challenges in the fight against coronavirus
  10. how to keep kids safe while they're learning online
  11. Refugees need protection from coronavirus too, and must be released
  12. Michelle Grattan on the government's contact tracing app, the World Health Organization and 'the road back'
  13. Five years on from the earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, heritage-led recovery is uniting community
  14. The need to house everyone has never been clearer. Here's a 2-step strategy to get it done
  15. Buried under colonial concrete, Botany Bay has even been robbed of its botany
  16. Parents, you don't always need to entertain your kids – boredom is good for them
  17. Flushing is our next weapon against COVID-19, if you're happy to have your sewage scrutinised
  18. How the coronavirus pandemic is (finally) resulting in leadership for the greater good
  19. Mavis Ngallametta review - a bittersweet collection of a songwoman's stories of home
  20. In 1919, Anzac Day was commemorated despite the Spanish flu pandemic. In 2020, we will remember them again
  21. Modelling tells us the coronavirus app will need a big take-up, economics tells us how to get it
  22. staying at home for months is unlikely to lead to an eye-watering electricity bill
  23. Why the focus of stimulus plans has to be construction that puts social housing first
  24. If we can put a man on the Moon, we can save the Great Barrier Reef
  25. How to beat weight gain at menopause
  26. Japanese Australian veterans and the legacy of anti-Asian racism
  27. Caring for community to beat coronavirus echoes Indigenous ideas of a good life
  28. If Scott Morrison is true to his word, October's budget could be a doozy
  29. Why coronavirus emerges in clusters, and how New Zealand plans to eliminate outbreaks after lockdown
  30. it's a humanitarian and economic crisis in the making
  31. How to manage your blood pressure in isolation
  32. What elective surgery will be allowed now the coronavirus situation has improved? It's up to your surgeon or hospital
  33. Corporations prepare to sue over action to save lives as pandemic reveals trade flaws
  34. What is Dalgona coffee? The whipped coffee trend taking over the internet during isolation
  35. in a time of crisis the Bureau of Statistics is serving us well
  36. how laughter can connect and heal
  37. Is it time for a 'new way of war?' What China's army reforms mean for the rest of the world
  38. most of us won’t cooperate unless everyone does
  39. Sparkling dolphins swim off our coast, but humans are threatening these natural light shows
  40. 6 steps towards remaking the homelessness system so it works for young people
  41. Recreating masterpieces at home? People have been doing it for centuries
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  45. Coronavirus TV 'support' package leaves screen writers and directors even less certain than before
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  50. reflecting on past airline collapses in Australia

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