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FactCheck: do Australians with an average seafood diet ingest 11,000 pieces of plastic a year?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imagePlastic fragments found in dissected fish. Algalita Marine Research and Education

Well, if you’ve got an average seafood diet in Australia today, you’re probably ingesting about 11,000 pieces of plastic every year. – Dave West, National Policy Director and founder of environmental group, Boomerang Alliance, speaking with a Fairfax...

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How universities make inequality worse

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageWe are in danger of returning to a stage where young people from poorer backgrounds have no hope of attending an elite university.from www.shutterstock.com.au

In this, the first of a two-part series on inequality and university education in Australia, University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker argues that rather than redress inequality,...

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