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Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul togetherCockfight by The Farm Kate Holmes/HOTA

While discontent at the federal government’s lack of support for the cultural sector during the coronavirus epidemic continues to grow, the few people still in jobs are readying for the optimistically termed “recovery period”.

Physical access to arts events is becoming a possibility. Now...

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How Mumbai's poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay

  • Written by: Ishita Chatterjee, PhD Candidate, Informal Urbanism (InfUr-) Hub, University of Melbourne
How Mumbai's poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bayAerial view of Shivaji Nagar.Author provided

Informal settlements are experiencing a greater surge in COVID-19 cases than other urban neighbourhoods in Mumbai, India. Their high density, narrow streets, tight internal spaces, poor access to water and sanitation leave residents highly vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus.

One of Mumbai’s poo...

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After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here's how we did it

  • Written by: John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University
After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here's how we did itDaniel Marius/AAP

No other event in our lifetimes has brought such sudden, drastic loss to Australia’s biodiversity as the last bushfire season. Governments, researchers and conservationists have committed to the long road to recovery. But in those vast burnt landscapes, where do we start?

We are among the wildlife experts advising the federal...

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Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here's how they can clean up their act

  • Written by: Ipek Kurtböke, Senior Lecturer, Environmental Microbiology, University of the Sunshine Coast

Qantas has unveiled a range of precautions to guard passengers against COVID-19. The safety measures expected to be rolled out on June 12 include contactless check-in, hand sanitiser at departure gates, and optional masks and sanitising wipes on board.

Controversially, however, there will be no physical distancing on board, because Qantas claims...

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  1. New Zealand's COVID-19 Tracer app won't help open a 'travel bubble' with Australia anytime soon
  2. Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper's flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection
  3. 7 ways to manage your #coronaphobia
  4. Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem
  5. The world agreed to a coronavirus inquiry. Just when and how, though, are still in dispute
  6. Coronavirus is a 'sliding doors' moment. What we do now could change Earth's trajectory
  7. Denied intimacy in 'iso', Aussies go online for adult content – so what's hot in each major city?
  8. why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs
  9. A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic
  10. The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into place
  11. how to count like a bee
  12. Don't want to send the kids back to school? Why not try unschooling at home
  13. Thanks to The Conversation's authors, for going above and beyond
  14. Recession hits Māori and Pasifika harder. They must be part of planning New Zealand's COVID-19 recovery
  15. Australia doesn't need more anti-terror laws that aren't necessary – or even used
  16. why we need to focus on increased consumption as much as population growth
  17. China used anti-dumping rules against us because what goes around comes around
  18. Australia must outperform to come out even from COVID-19
  19. Before epidemiologists began modelling disease, it was the job of astrologers
  20. Be worried when fossil fuel lobbyists support current environmental laws
  21. Why is the Australian government letting universities suffer?
  22. Democracy 2025 - Political trust in times of COVID-19 with Michelle Grattan, Mark Evans, Peter Shergold, and Renée Leon
  23. Could blood thinners be a lifesaving treatment for COVID-19? Here's what the science says and what it means for you
  24. These young Queenslanders are taking on Clive Palmer's coal company and making history for human rights
  25. Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on it
  26. Coronavirus anti-vaxxers aren’t a huge threat yet. How do we keep it that way?
  27. how history might read Morrison's coronavirus leadership
  28. Fang Fang's Wuhan diaries are a personal account of shared memory
  29. Is another huge and costly road project really Sydney's best option right now?
  30. The big stimulus spending has just begun. Here's how to get it right, quickly
  31. Are New Zealand's new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state?
  32. Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own
  33. View from The Hill: Bill Kelty's five-point plan for coming out of COVID
  34. the tertiary education union's deal with universities explained
  35. it's hard to say if the COVIDSafe app can overcome its shortcomings
  36. Coalition gains Newspoll lead as Labor ahead in Eden-Monaro; Trump's ratings recover
  37. what Virgin Australia staff can learn from ex-Ansett workers
  38. Forget work-life balance – it's all about integration in the age of COVID-19
  39. International film archives are streaming up a storm during lockdown. Australia's movie trove isn't even online
  40. Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
  41. Economists back social distancing 34-9 in new Economic Society-Conversation survey
  42. Self-employed Australians' hours have fallen 32% since coronavirus hit – double the impact on all employees
  43. Just how hot will it get this century? Latest climate models suggest it could be worse than we thought
  44. Supermarkets claim to have our health at heart. But their marketing tactics push junk foods
  45. The trade-offs 'smart city' apps like COVIDSafe ask us to make go well beyond privacy
  46. The 'hospital in the home' revolution has been stalled by COVID-19. But it's still a good idea
  47. Experts are back in fashion – now more than ever we need to question them
  48. Trust in quality news outlets strong during coronavirus pandemic
  49. The government will spend $48 million to safeguard mental health. Extending JobKeeper would safeguard it even more
  50. Yes, we need a global coronavirus inquiry, but not for petty political point-scoring

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