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warning sign or cause for panic?

  • Written by: Susan Woods, Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
warning sign or cause for panic?Screening and monitoring can catch precancerous cells before they turn into cancer.www.shutterstock.com

It might be a spot, lump, bump or polyp you’ve found suspicious or bothersome enough to ask a doctor to have a look at. The doctor sends what she has excised for testing and tells you it’s “pre-cancerous”. But what exactly...

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Why you should read China's vast, 18th century novel, Dream of the Red Chamber

  • Written by: Josh Stenberg, Lectuter in Chinese Studies, University of Sydney
Why you should read China's vast, 18th century novel, Dream of the Red ChamberJia Baoyu, the protagonist of Dream of the Red Chamber, as drawn by Gai Qi, 1879. Wikimedia

In our series, Guide to the classics, experts explain key works of literature.


When asked to explain the significance and pleasure of the Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin, I’m afraid I usually flounder. How to put it to friends,...

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How the 2016 bleaching altered the shape of the northern Great Barrier Reef

  • Written by: Selina Ward, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
How the 2016 bleaching altered the shape of the northern Great Barrier ReefStaghorn and tabular corals suffered mass die-offs, robbing many individual reefs of their characteristic shapes.ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/ Mia Hoogenboom

In 2016 the Great Barrier Reef suffered unprecedented mass coral bleaching – part of a global bleaching event that dwarfed its predecessors in 1998 and 2002. This was...

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Ban Middle East sheep trade, says Liberal MP Jason Wood

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

Pressure within government ranks for a ban on the live sheep trade to the Middle East has increased, with a second Liberal MP calling for the exports to end.

Jason Wood, who holds the outer Melbourne seat of La Trobe, said on Wednesday that even if standards were toughened the trade would remain inhumane.

Wood’s call follows NSW Liberal and...

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  7. Will Rio Tinto’s bid to escape from its contracts with Rusal succeed?
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