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Mould levels seen at Nauru detention centre are enough to cause serious health problems

  • Written by: Michael Taylor, Adjunct academic, Flinders University
Mould levels seen at Nauru detention centre are enough to cause serious health problems

A series of recent reports by The Guardian have revealed refugees, asylum seekers and staff at the Nauru processing centre have been exposed to a mould problem of “epic proportions”.

The fungal growth in housing and working areas has reportedly led to some staff describing ongoing health effects including cognitive impairment and...

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a 24-hour lesson in the gendered performance of intimacy

  • Written by: Annamarie Jagose, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
a 24-hour lesson in the gendered performance of intimacyNat Randall on stage and screen in The Second Woman.The Second Woman

The idea that femininity is a social performance, while masculinity simply sets the co-ordinates for the social, explains why so many classic melodramas turn on the figure of the actress, such as Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (1950), Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of...

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freezing university funding is out of step with the views of most Australians

  • Written by: Margaret Gardner, President and Vice Chancellor, Monash University
freezing university funding is out of step with the views of most AustraliansThere is also strong public understanding of the benefits that flow from research undertaken in partnership between universities and other organisations.Shutterstock

This longer read is an edited excerpt from a speech given by Margaret Gardner at the National Press Club in Canberra.

When Australia decided in 2009 to uncap university places,...

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How art merges with maths to explore continuity, change and exotic states

  • Written by: Tom Lee, Lecturer, Faculty of Design and Architecture Building, University of Technology Sydney
How art merges with maths to explore continuity, change and exotic statesThe adaptable form of pleated and folded textiles provides a real world view of the mathematical field of topology. Kate Scardifield, Author provided

Imagine you could turn a hollow sphere completely inside out - without making a hole, without cutting the material, without making any creases.

If you could ever do such a thing, it would rely on a...

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