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As coronavirus restrictions ease, here's how you can navigate public transport as safely as possible

  • Written by: Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, La Trobe University

As coronavirus restrictions continue to ease, one of the key challenges we face is how to deal with people moving around a lot more.

In particular, as more of us start to head back to school and the office in the coming weeks and months, more of us will be getting on buses, trains and trams.

So what is public transport going to look like as we...

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Life in lockdown has shown us our houses need to work harder for us

  • Written by: Chris Tucker, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Newcastle
Life in lockdown has shown us our houses need to work harder for usSharomka/Shutterstock

As we’ve been living more closely with families and house mates through COVID-19, the more intensive ways we’ve used our houses has perhaps exposed some of their shortcomings. Households have had relative freedom to interact with each other, but the continual presence of our household has also made us wish part of...

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The Leadbeater's possum finally had its day in court. It may change the future of logging in Australia

  • Written by: Julia Dehm, Lecturer, La Trobe University
The Leadbeater's possum finally had its day in court. It may change the future of logging in AustraliaShutterstock

The Federal Court last week ruled that VicForests – a timber company owned by the Victorian government – breached environmental laws when they razed the habitat of the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum and the vulnerable greater glider.

Environmentalists welcomed the judge’s decision, which sets an...

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SpaceX's historic launch gives Australia's booming space industry more room to fly

  • Written by: Cassandra Steer, Lecturer, ANU Center for International and Public Law; Mission Specialist, ANU Institute for Space, Australian National University
SpaceX's historic launch gives Australia's booming space industry more room to flyNASA Kennedy/Flickr, CC BY

At the weekend, Elon Musk’s commercial giant SpaceX launched two NASA astronauts in a spacecraft named Crew Dragon which, from the inside, looked like a souped-up Tesla.

The Falcon 9 rocket launched the spacecraft, returned to Earth and landed on a ship to later be re-used. And the Crew Dragon eventually docked...

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  14. As Minneapolis burns, Trump's presidency is sinking deeper into crisis. And yet, he may still be re-elected
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  16. Scott Morrison strengthens his policy power, enshrining national cabinet and giving it "laser-like" focus on jobs
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  29. Morrison's industrial relations peace gambit is worth a shot. Even if it fails, it's shrewd politics
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  38. New Zealand government ignores expert advice in its plan to improve water quality in rivers and lakes
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