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Budj Bim's world heritage listing is an Australian first – what other Indigenous cultural sites could be next?

  • Written by: Claire Smith, Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
Budj Bim's world heritage listing is an Australian first – what other Indigenous cultural sites could be next?Ranger Trevor Bramwell on the walk up to the Split Rock art galleries in Cape York's Quinkan Country in 2017. Rebekah Ison/AAP

The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape in south-west Victoria is the first Indigenous Australian landscape to be gazetted on the World Heritage List purely for its cultural values.

This listing breaks an invisible barrier: even...

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wind towers are only getting bigger

  • Written by: Con Doolan, Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW
wind towers are only getting biggerWind towers are getting taller. Shutterstock

Former Australian Greens leader Bob Brown made headlines this week after he objected to a proposed wind farm on Tasmania’s Robbins Island. The development would see 200 towers built, each standing 270 metres from base to the tip of their blades.

Leaving aside the question of the Robbins Island...

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Air travel spreads infections globally, but health advice from inflight magazines can limit that

  • Written by: Ramon Zenel Shaban, Clinical Chair and Professor of Infection Prevention and Disease Control at the University of Sydney, University of Sydney
Air travel spreads infections globally, but health advice from inflight magazines can limit thatOur research showed that inflight magazines offered travellers health advice on everything from dehydration to swollen ankles, but hardly anything on avoiding catching and spreading infectious diseases.from www.shutterstock.com

“Travel safe, travel far, travel wide, and travel often,” saysNomadic Matt, the American who quit his job to...

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  14. Finally, the NDIS will fund sex therapy. But it should cover sex workers too
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  22. Extremist mobs? How China's propaganda machine tried to control the message in the Hong Kong protests
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  25. Meet the endangered Bunyip bird living in Australia's rice paddies
  26. Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up
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