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High-risk groups in the UK are set to receive the Pfizer COVID vaccine as soon as next week, after emergency approval.
And pressure is on in the US and in Europe to fast-track approval.
But the UK news isn’t changing Australia’s plans to roll out vaccines from March.
Should we be worried about the wait? An international team of Australian and Canadian researchers explain why the situation here is different.
As our case numbers are so low compared with other countries, we can take our time over the next three months to get the approval process right.
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Anna Evangeli
Deputy Editor: Health+Medicine
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Joel Lexchin, University of Toronto; Barbara Mintzes, University of Sydney; Kellia Chiu, University of Sydney; Lisa Parker, University of Sydney
Australia is still aiming to start vaccinating high-risk groups from March. Why the delay?
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
In the moment, Scott Morrison's angry denunciation of the offensive Chinese tweet about alleged Australian war crimes seemed a reasonable response.
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Kate Burridge, Monash University; Howard Manns, Monash University
Medicine's linguistic history in English is rich indeed, peppered with borrowings from French. But the Old English renderings retain a certain charm.
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Kylie Pappalardo, Queensland University of Technology
The changes for allow access to orphan works and put beyond doubt the right of academics to quote from copyrighted works.
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‘Shearing sheep, Barcaldine District’, 1948.
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Lorinda Cramer, Australian Catholic University
Far from mere underwear, singlets have many cultural meanings. Once worn chiefly by shearers, laborers and soldiers, they have been embraced on dance floors and in the gym.
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Adrian Esterman, University of South Australia
With a vaccine now approved in the UK, other countries won't be far behind. But a vaccine won't singlehandedly ensure the virus doesn't cross international borders when travel picks up.
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Business + Economy
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Jason Potts, RMIT University; Ellie Rennie, RMIT University
There's more substance to the surging price of Bitcoin than last time. But there's still good reason to be cautious about investing in it.
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Angela Spinney, Swinburne University of Technology
Research for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute proposes a path forward to reduce, and even eliminate, homelessness in Australia.
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Science + Technology
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Trevor Ireland, Australian National University
Scientists hope samples of asteroid Ryugu may reveal traces of the chemical ingredients that formed life on Earth.
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Education
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Catherine Attard, Western Sydney University
There's a lack of evidence school banking programs lead to better financial literacy. And their removal in Victoria might be the impetus schools need to take financial education more seriously.
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Christopher L. Diamond, Australian National University; Trent Brown, University of Melbourne
Hindi is the most widely spoken language of India and of the many people of Indian origin in Australia. The teaching of Hindi has been in decline at a time when the need for it has never been greater.
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Politics + Society
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Chris Aulich, University of Canberra
Have our leaders been emboldened by their successes in responding to the pandemic and counting on this to defuse criticisms of their behaviours?
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Arts + Culture
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Amie O'Shea, Deakin University
Being a gay man with disability means you don’t see yourself onscreen. Thomas Banks wants to change all that.
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Environment + Energy
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Celia McMichael, University of Melbourne; Ilan Kelman, UCL; Shouro Dasgupta, Università Ca'Foscari; Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, United Nations University
A major new report presents the latest data on the health impacts in a warming world. It found there were 296,000 heat-related deaths in people over 65 years in 2018.
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Health + Medicine
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Andrea Mosler, La Trobe University; Matthew Driller, La Trobe University
Ice baths, float tanks, foam rollers, compression garments - the post-exercise recovery market is booming. But the evidence for them doesn't always stack up.
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