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Peter Doherty: why Australia needs to march for science

  • Written by: Peter C. Doherty, Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
imageMarch for Science events will be held across the world on April 22 2017. from www.shutterstock.com

The following article is adapted from a speech to be delivered at the Melbourne March for Science on Saturday 22 April, 2017.

The mission posted on the March for Science international website states:

The March for Science champions robustly funded and...

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Trump and North Korea: military action will be a disaster, so a more patient, thoughtful solution is required

  • Written by: Benjamin Habib, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University
imageNorth Koreans react as they march past the stand with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a military parade.Reuters/Damir Sagolj

Pundits often cite the North Korean regime’s crimes against its citizens as proof of Kim Jong-un’s irrationality as a leader. These crimes, as exhaustively documented by former High Court justice Michael...

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Friday essay: King, Queen and country - will Anzac thwart republicanism?

  • Written by: Mark McKenna, Associate Professor of History, University of Sydney
imageQueen Elizabeth II meets with Australian Defence Force personnel and veterans at the Australian War Memorial in 2011.Graham Tidy/AAP

On the morning of 16 February 1954, Charles Bean and his wife Effie drove along Canberra’s Anzac Parade towards the Australian War Memorial. As their official car approached the building, crowds of onlookers...

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