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As Australia’s coronavirus restrictions are gradually lifted, we may well see an upswing in cases of COVID-19. The World Health Organisation has warned of...
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Australia’s relative success in stopping the spread of COVID-19 is largely due governments taking expert advice on a complex problem. Unfortunately, the same...
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Florence Nightingale’s birth on May 12, 1820, is commemorated on International Nurses Day, honouring her founding role in modern nursing. Yesterday would have...
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People love creating words — in times of crisis it’s a “sick” (in the good sense) way of pulling through.
From childhood, our “linguistic...
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On April 27, 2020, the US Department of Defense issued a public statement authorising the release of three “UFO” videos taken by...
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Little Richard was washing dishes at a Greyhound bus station in Macon, Georgia when he wrote Tutti Frutti, Good Golly Miss Molly and Long Tall...
Dorothea Lange’s famous Migrant Mother portrait,
showing a mother of seven children in California, 1936.
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There are images of her everywhere, especially...
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Movie characters – like Greek heroes – are typically faster, stronger, braver and better looking than those of us in the audience who stare...
Protest at Parliament House in Canberra, May 8 1970.
National Museum of Australia
Fifty years ago this month, hundreds of thousands of Australians assembled across the...
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Compared to many other countries around the world, Australia and New Zealand have done an exceptional job controlling COVID-19.
As of May 7, there...
