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Five years on from the earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, heritage-led recovery is uniting community

  • Written by: Vanicka Arora, PhD Candidate at Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Five years on from the earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, heritage-led recovery is uniting communityBhaktapur Durbar Square in January 2020Vanicka Arora, Author provided

Since the Gorkha earthquake killed almost 9,000 people in April 2015, Nepal has been on a slow and arduous route to recovery. Nepal’s vibrant cultural heritage of monuments, religious places, crafts, festivals and traditional practices has been key to this process.

Heritage...

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The need to house everyone has never been clearer. Here's a 2-step strategy to get it done

  • Written by: Ron Wakefield, Professor of Construction, Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor, International, and Dean, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us our health is intimately connected to the health of the person next to us, and that everyone needs shelter. It has created unprecedented urgency about moving people who are homeless into emergency accommodation – for their health and ours. So what happens next?

Getting people into hotel and motel rooms and...

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Buried under colonial concrete, Botany Bay has even been robbed of its botany

  • Written by: Rebecca Hamilton, Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeoecology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Buried under colonial concrete, Botany Bay has even been robbed of its botanyShutterstock

The HMS Endeavour’s week-long stay on the shores of Kamay in 1770 yielded so many botanical specimens unknown to western science, Captain James Cook called the area Botany Bay.

During this visit, the ship’s natural history expert Joseph Banks spoke favourably of the landscape, saying it resembled the “moorlands of...

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Parents, you don't always need to entertain your kids – boredom is good for them

  • Written by: Mandie Shean, Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
Parents, you don't always need to entertain your kids – boredom is good for themShutterstock

Most Australian children are stuck at home due to the outbreak of COVID-19. They need to find ways to socialise, do their school work, exercise and entertain themselves.

It’s not surprising parents may be hearing “I’m bored” a lot more than before.

People hate being bored. So much so that in one study,...

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  34. reflecting on past airline collapses in Australia
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