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Ditch plastic dog poo bags, go compostable

  • Written by: M. Leigh Ackland, Professor in Molecular Biosciences, Deakin University
Ditch plastic dog poo bags, go compostableDon't do these doggie-doo don'ts.Shutterstock

We humans have a habit of avoiding our waste. We find organic waste particularly unpleasant. We bag it and dispose of it as soon as possible.

Even the most environmentally conscious person would rather not handle something like decomposing food or dog poo with their bare hands. Plastic bags are often...

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House prices and demographics make death duties an idea whose time has come

  • Written by: John Mangan, Professor and Director of the Australian Institute For Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
House prices and demographics make death duties an idea whose time has come$3.5 trillion is about to be poured into a small number of hands over the next two decades.Shutterstock

Suddenly, death duties are part of the election campaign.

Not that Labor (or the Coalition) is proposing them, but photoshopped fake tweets from Labor figures saying they will introduce them have been doing the rounds, and the Coalition is using...

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Before the Anzac biscuit, soldiers ate a tile so hard you could write on it

  • Written by: Lindsay Kelley, Lecturer, Art & Design, UNSW
Before the Anzac biscuit, soldiers ate a tile so hard you could write on itChristmas hard tack biscuit: Boer War. Australian War Memorial. Accession Number: REL/10747.Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial

Before Anzac biscuits found the sticky sweet form we bake and eat today, Anzac soldiers ate durable but bland “Anzac tiles”, a new name for an ancient ration.

Anzac tiles are also known as army biscuits,...

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how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia

  • Written by: James Waghorne, Academic Historian, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
how WWI brought new skills and professions back to AustraliaThe war spurred surgeons to develop new techniques, such as traction splints and blood transfusions.from shutterstock.com

The first world war was significant to the formation of Australian national identity and defining national characteristics, such as making do and mateship. This is well acknowledged.

But it was also a technical war, which...

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  10. Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on the 'disappointing' banking royal commission and how she works with whistleblowers
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  14. Crackdown on foreign workers is part of Shorten's wages campaign
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  22. Chris Lilley's Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous
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