More than twenty years of biological monitoring have confirmed the importance of vegetation for protecting Australia's freshwater streams and rivers against the ravages of drought and climate change.
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Ten of the best
9 February 2012
Pioneering research that targets the kidneys in order to fight chronic heart failure has been rated one of the NHMRCs 10 best projects of 2011.
Indigenous stroke patients lose out
9 February 2012
New research shows Indigenous Australians are at greater risk of death or disability from stroke than non-Indigenous Australians because they receive a lower standard of care in hospital.
Lecture series to begin with a (big) bang
8 February 2012
Who better to explain the past and the future of the universe than a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist?
Opinion
“The real test of the carbon tax”
The Government and the Opposition will each interpret the outcome from the UN’s Durban Climate Change Conference to support their respective positions on carbon tax. While this debate will drag on for some time, the first real test of public acceptance of
“The beginning of the end for automobility?”
Car travel is becoming a victim of its own success. If we in the West had only kept cars for ourselves, automobility could have survived much longer. But we shared them with the rest of the world, and now car travel is doomed.
“Remembrance a weapon against genocide”
Holocaust Remembrance Day, on 27 January, marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. It serves to remind us of the horrors that were inflicted by Nazi Germany, although its meaning is deeper and broader still.
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