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Forget sharks... here's why you are more likely to be injured by litter at the beach

  • Written by: Marnie Campbell, Chevron Harry Butler Chair in Biosecurity and Environmental Science, Murdoch University
Forget sharks... here's why you are more likely to be injured by litter at the beachSadly, people plus beach equals litter, so be careful out there.Wikimedia Commons

Our beaches are our summer playgrounds, yet beach litter and marine debris injures one-fifth of beach users, particularly children and older people.

Our research, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, found more than 7,800 injuries on New Zealand...

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here's what Australian law says about public nudity

  • Written by: Rick Sarre, Adjunct Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
here's what Australian law says about public nuditySometimes public nudity is just fine, as it was at the 2018 Sydney Skinny Swim at Cobblers Beach.AAP/Ben Rushton

The warm days of summer are almost upon us. Nudity on some Australian beaches is inevitable. But exactly how much of our flesh can we bare, and when, and where?

It should surprise no-one that, when it comes to the law and naked bodies,...

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Lydia Chukovskaya, editor, writer, heroic friend

  • Written by: Judith Armstrong, Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
Lydia Chukovskaya, editor, writer, heroic friendA plaque on a house in St Petersburg that says: ‘Here the writer Lydia Korneievna Chukovskaya wrote Sophia Petrovna, a story about the Great Terror 1936-1938’.Wikimedia Commons

In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages.

The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is too tragic and striking a figure ever to be forgotten. A...

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Théroigne de Méricourt, feminist revolutionary

  • Written by: Peter McPhee, Emeritus professor, University of Melbourne
Théroigne de Méricourt, feminist revolutionaryThéroigne de Mericourt, engraving after a painting by Auguste Raffet in 1817.Wikimedia Commons

In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages.

Anne-Josèphe Théroigne or Terwagne (1762–1817) was born at Marcourt, a village south of Liège in modern Belgium. From a comfortable farming family,...

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