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The tasty, weed-like desert raisin plant is as big as a carpark

  • Written by: Dr Angela Pattison, Research scientist at Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
The tasty, weed-like desert raisin plant is as big as a carparkThe desert raisin is a member of Australia’s native bush tomato family. Mark Marathon/Wikimedia, CC BY

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The species Solanum centrale, also known as kutjera in several Aboriginal languages, or the desert raisin in English,...

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local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever

  • Written by: Jeanti St Clair, Lecturer in Journalism, Southern Cross University
local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town foreverA scene at the first Aquarius Festival, Nimbin, 1973. Flickr/Harry Watson Smith, CC BY-SA

In the north-east corner of Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales is a small former dairying and banana farming community. Today, however, that village is unrecognisable.

Nimbin is now widely acknowledged as Australia’s...

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the dramatic and inglorious fall of Joh Bjelke-Petersen

  • Written by: Shirleene Robinson, Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor's Innovation Fellow, Macquarie University
the dramatic and inglorious fall of Joh Bjelke-PetersenJoh Bjelke-Petersen with his wife, Flo, on their wedding day in 1952. Bjelke-Petersen made an ill-fated bid for PM in 1987 that ripped the Coalition apart.Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd/Wikimedia Commons

With taxes, health care and climate change emerging as key issues in the upcoming federal election, we’re running a series this week looking...

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Julian Assange has refused to surrender himself for extradition to the US. What now?

  • Written by: Samuel Berhanu Woldemariam, PhD Candidate (Law), University of Newcastle

In the case of Julian Assange, focus has turned to the United States’ efforts to extradite him from Britain to the US to face a charge of conspiracy “to commit computer intrusion”.

The initial extradition hearing, which took place on Thursday, was a preliminary step in what will be a long, drawn-out process. Assange appeared...

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