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From the Queen of Sheba to Jeffrey Smart: how art shaped Bruce Beresford

  • Written by: Naomi Evans, Curator, Griffith University Art Gallery, Griffith Artworks, Griffith University
imageBruce Beresford's expansive art collection grew from flea-markets. Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). Exodus (Study for a mural). Photo: Jenni Carter

Australian director Bruce Beresford, known for films such as Driving Miss Daisy, Mao’s Last Dancer and the Academy Award nominated Breaking Morant, is a keen art collector. Here, he talks to Naomi...

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The problem with reinforced concrete

  • Written by: Guy Keulemans, Associate lecturer, UNSW Australia

By itself, concrete is a very durable construction material. The magnificent Pantheon in Rome, the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, is in excellent condition after nearly 1,900 years. And yet many concrete structures from last century – bridges, highways and buildings – are crumbling. Many concrete structures built...

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Spiny crayfish and their flatworm friends: an ancient partnership revealed

  • Written by: Susan Lawler, Senior Lecturer, Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University
imageFlatworms of the genus Temnosewellia liivng on the Orbost spiny crayfish (Euastacus diversus).Andrew Murray

I am so proud of our recent publication, mostly because it has been a long time coming. We received an Australian Research Council grant in the year 2000 to work on this so it has taken us some time to achieve our goal.

The characters in this...

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Uncapping of university places achieved what it set out to do. So why is it dubbed a policy failure?

  • Written by: Andrew Harvey, Director, Access and Achievement Research Unit, La Trobe University
imageThe main 'failure' of the demand-driven system is its success.from www.shutterstock.com

Allowing universities to recruit as many students as they wish is unsustainable and does not improve equity, the Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s elite universities, has stated in its latest paper.

The Go8 calls for “moderation”...

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