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Should we vaccinate children against COVID-19? We asked 5 experts
By Phoebe Roth, The Conversation
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) recently announced provisional approval for the Pfizer vaccine to be used in 12-15-year-olds.
Last month, the...
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Dodgy tree loppers are scamming elderly homeowners and hacking up healthy...
By Gregory Moore, The University of Melbourne
Have you had a knock on the door or perhaps a card in your letterbox telling you the...
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If I’ve already had COVID, do I need a vaccine? And...
By Sunit K. Singh, Banaras Hindu University
Over a year into the pandemic, questions around immune responses after COVID continue to confound.
One question many people...
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Australia once rejected ‘feeble-minded’ immigrants. While the language has changed, discrimination...
By Jan Gothard, Murdoch University
“Idiots”, “imbeciles”, the “feeble-minded”, anyone with a “loathsome disease”: all were refused entry into Australia under early migration acts. Today,...
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The more video streaming services we get, the more we’ll turn...
By Paul Crosby, Macquarie University and Jordi McKenzie, Macquarie University
With the launch of the Paramount+, Australian consumers of video streaming are arguably drowning in...
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For refugees in Australia, life during COVID lockdowns recalls the trauma...
By Philippa Specker, UNSW; Angela Nickerson, UNSW, and Belinda Liddell, UNSW
While the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing heavily on everyone’s mental health, people from refugee...
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