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how the pension and super could leave you behind

  • Written by: Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW
how the pension and super could leave you behindSuper and the pension treat most retirees well, but not renters.Shutterstock

How we fund retirement in an ageing century ought to worry all of us.

But one group of us should be much more worried than the rest.

In a new set of research briefs published by the Centre of Excellence of Population Ageing Research, we report that most people do well out...

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Stringybark is tough as boots (and gave us the word 'Eucalyptus')

  • Written by: Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne
Stringybark is tough as boots (and gave us the word 'Eucalyptus')The Eucalyptus obliqua as seen in Merthyr Park, Tasmania. Cowirrie/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Few eucalypts are as versatile, varied and valuable as messmate stringybark. It was the first eucalypt to be scientifically named, and in fact gives us the name “Eucalyptus”.

Gum trees had been seen and collected on earlier expeditions, but a specimen...

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How our red blood cells keep evolving to fight malaria

  • Written by: Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Laboratory Head, Population Health and Immunity/ Infection and Immunity, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
How our red blood cells keep evolving to fight malariaEven without drugs, nets or an understanding of what caused malaria, human bodies were still fighting against the parasite – and winning.from shutterstock.com

Ever since humans first evolved from our primitive ancestors, we have been locked in a battle with our greatest infectious foe – malaria. This life-threatening disease, caused by...

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The Uncomformity festival embraces the power and peculiarity of Tasmania's wild west

  • Written by: Asher Warren, Lecturer, University of Tasmania
The Uncomformity festival embraces the power and peculiarity of Tasmania's wild westTasdance’s _Junjeiri Ballun – Gurul Gaureima_, part of The Uncomformity festival, performed Indigenous history in Queenstown's Queen River. The Unconformity festival

Of the many festivals dotted across the island state of Tasmania, The Uncomformity is particularly well named. It is an inherently unique event, responsive to the...

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