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The Queensland Dragon Heath is like a creature in the mist

  • Written by: Fanie Venter, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Sign up to Beating Around the Bush, a series that profiles native plants: part gardening column, part dispatches from country, entirely Australian.


The Queensland Dragon Heath, or Dracophyllum sayeri, is a small, open-branched tree that grows up to 8 metres tall. It also looks decidedly as if someone has stuck pineapple plants or...

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Cladding fire risks have been known for years. Lives depend on acting now, with no more delays

  • Written by: Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, UNSW

The fire at the Neo200 building on Spencer Street in the Melbourne CBD this week has eerie similarities to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Fortunately, instead of 72 people dead as at Grenfell, only one person was hospitalised for smoke inhalation.


Read more: Cladding fires expose gaps in building material safety checks. Here's a...

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Tim Wilson's 'retirement tax' website doesn't have a privacy policy. So how is he using the data?

  • Written by: Andre Oboler, Senior Lecturer, Master of Cyber-Security Program (Law), La Trobe University

A growing debate over Labor’s policy to end cash rebates for excess franking credits has led to calls for the chair of parliament’s economics committee, Liberal MP Tim Wilson, to resign.

Labor has accused Wilson of using a parliamentary inquiry into the policy to spearhead a partisan campaign against it.

Part of the controversy revolves...

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