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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Yang Hengjun's arrest

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Geoff Crisp Michelle Grattan discuss China’s formal arrest of Australian-Chinese writer and democracy advocate Dr. Yang Hengjun, as well as NSW ALP’s troubles after it was revealed they accepted money illegally from a Chinese property developer. They also talk about Christian...

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Curious Kids: how do wounds heal?

  • Written by: Christina Parker, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
Curious Kids: how do wounds heal?When you have a wound, your body gets to work straight away to clean it out, kill germs and repair the skin. Shutterstock/Yakobchuk ViacheslavCurious Kids: how do wounds heal?

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au.


I would like to know how wounds heal. – Simon, age 7.


Thank you for this excellent question,...

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NAPLAN results show Year 3 students perform better than Year 9 in writing, and it's a worrying trend

  • Written by: Stewart Riddle, Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
NAPLAN results show Year 3 students perform better than Year 9 in writing, and it's a worrying trendWhy should a Year 3 student score higher in writing skills than a Year 9 student?Shutterstock/RimDream

The preliminary 2019 NAPLAN results released this week show a small “upturn” in performance on the writing task.

For each year level, the percentage of students at or above the national minimum standard increased slightly between the...

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Meet the super corals that can handle acid, heat and suffocation

  • Written by: Emma F Camp, DECRA & UTS Chancellor's Research Fellow, Climate Change Cluster, Future Reefs Research Programe, University of Technology Sydney
Meet the super corals that can handle acid, heat and suffocationResilient corals are offering hope for bleached reefs.Emma Camp

Climate change is rapidly changing the oceans, driving coral reefs around the world to breaking point. Widely publicised marine heatwaves aren’t the only threat corals are facing: the seas are increasingly acidic, have less oxygen in them, and are gradually warming as a whole.

Each...

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  6. Australia isn't avoiding prodding the Chinese bear
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  8. No, minister! Keep NAPLAN results away from student job applications
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  20. Yang Hengjun case a pivotal moment in increasingly tense Australia-China relationship
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  26. Academic urges universities to get out from under the 'shadow of Beijing'.
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