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'Can do' Scott Morrison needs to take care in deregulating

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Scott Morrison is casting himself as the “can-do” prime minister, and what’s notable is how he is forging institutions around his style.

The national cabinet was born of the COVID crisis, but has been made permanent with a broader purpose; Morrison is determined it will have less bureaucracy than surrounded the former Council of...

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Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere

  • Written by: Lauren Waller, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmospherenative forest

Large-scale reforestation projects such as New Zealand’s One Billion Trees programme are underway in many countries to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

But there is ongoing debate about whether to prioritise native or non-native plants to fight climate change. As our recent research shows, non-native plants often grow...

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Removing monuments to an imperial past is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires

  • Written by: Katie Pickles, Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, University of Canterbury
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The global furore about the meaning and relevance of statues, memorials and place names from a racist, imperial past presents a special challenge to Aotearoa-New Zealand. In this former colonial outpost we are dealing with a double burden: the memorialisation of unsavoury historical figures, and the fact that they were imported from...

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is time travel possible for humans?

  • Written by: Lucy Strang, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne
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Is time travel possible for humans? Jasmine, age 8, Canberra, ACT.

is time travel possible for humans?

Hi Jasmine.

I wish! In books and movies, our favourite characters can use “time-turners” and treehouses to travel through time. Unfortunately, it isn’t that easy for people in real life. Let’s look at why.

First, there are two types of “time...

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