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It will be cold comfort to the locked-down residents of Sydney’s Northern Beaches, but they are arguably the only Australians with any consistency over which states they can travel to — because they’re barred from going anywhere. For everyone else, the situation is more complex.
Anyone who spent time in Sydney recently is barred from most other states, depending on the exact dates involved, while Victoria has closed the border to the whole of NSW, and WA has pulled up the drawbridge to both states. But a trip to Tasmania is still on the cards for almost anyone — even most Sydneysiders, as long as they’re willing to quarantine. Confused yet?
Deakin University’s Chair in Epidemiology Catherine Bennett argues there’s a better way. With almost all cases linked to known clusters in designated hotspots, Bennett says efforts should be focused on contact-tracing and isolating these clusters — not slamming state borders shut and causing even more holiday chaos.
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Michael Hopkin
Editor, Science + Technology, Health + Medicine
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Catherine Bennett, Deakin University
States and territories have reacted to the Sydney COVID outbreak with varying degrees of travel restrictions. But border closures are a blunt tool, given almost all cases are linked to known hotspots.
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The main chamber of Cloggs Cave. Monash University archaeologist Joe Crouch is standing in the 1970s excavation pit, digging a new area in the wall of the old excavation.
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Bruno David, Monash University; Chris Urwin, Monash University; Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Université Savoie Mont Blanc; Lynette Russell, Monash University; Russell Mullett, Indigenous Knowledge
Two starkly different research projects at East Gippsland's Cloggs Cave, 50 years apart, show the importance of Indigenous perspectives in archaeology.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in May 2017, greeting supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
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Peter Greste, The University of Queensland
In her ruling, the judge rejected claims that Assange's case was an assault on press freedom, which must concern anyone who believes in the oversight role that journalists play in a democracy.
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Dragon springtails (pictured) are widely distributed in forests of eastern Australia — yet they’re still largely unknown to science.
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Nick Porch, Deakin University
Australia's invertebrates have an ancient lineage and a fascinating evolution. Get up close with macrophotography to discover tiny, unique animals you've probably never seen before.
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Philip Laird, University of Wollongong
The benefits of road-user charging are now well established. And including electric vehicles doesn't have to be a deterrent to their uptake, as New Zealand and other nations have shown.
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Peter A. Heslin, UNSW
Here's what the research tells us about what wears us out, what renews us, and how to feel more refreshed in 2021.
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Politics + Society
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Nematullah Bizhan, Australian National University
Little was achieved in the first round of talks last year. As round two is set to begin, there are major obstacles to overcome to finally bring peace to Afghanistan.
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Health + Medicine
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Timothy Ford, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Charles M. Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst
So far, the only COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use need to be kept frozen. But there are many places in the world that can't support a cold supply chain.
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Science + Technology
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Michael Garrett, University of Manchester
One way forward would be to abandon the traditional approach of using single-dish telescopes for SETI.
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Mark Maslin, UCL; Carmen Nab, UCL
The process that brought you your morning latte could have produced half a kilogram of CO₂.
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