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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been touting the 80% adult vaccination target as the goal to “safely” reopen the nation.
That assumes those who are vulnerable to severe illness and death from COVID-19 are protected at those levels as well. But as Anne Kavanagh and her colleagues write, vaccination levels are appallingly low in many at-risk groups.
First Nations Australians, people with disability, prisoners and people living in rural and remote Australia have much higher levels of chronic conditions, making them more vulnerable to COVID-19. They’re also less likely to be able to access quality health care.
Kavanagh argues continuing with our current strategy will mean that when we open up, many people who should have been the highest priority for vaccination will be left vulnerable.
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Fron Jackson-Webb
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Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services.
Anne Kavanagh, The University of Melbourne; Helen Dickinson, UNSW; Nancy Baxter, The University of Melbourne
It’s simply not “safe” for many Australians to come out of Scott Morrison’s proverbial cave until vaccination rates increase.
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Guy Curtis, The University of Western Australia
Australia has a law against businesses offering assignments for sale to students, but that hasn’t stopped ‘contract cheating’. And new research shows it’s much more common than had been thought.
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Here are some ways to support people from Afghanistan locally, nationally and overseas.
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By studying the chemical makeup of binary stars, astronomers found many planetary systems are far less peaceful than ours.
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Scott Hamilton, The University of Melbourne; Stuart Kells, La Trobe University
A new book says Australia’s 20-year water trading experiment is sucking hundreds of millions of dollars each year out of the Murray-Darling Basin and directing water away from productive land.
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Health + Medicine
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Vasso Apostolopoulos, Victoria University; Jack Feehan, Victoria University
Some countries have started administering third doses of COVID vaccines, or booster shots. But we’re still learning about how long immunity lasts from the first two shots.
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Politics + Society
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Adrian Beaumont, The University of Melbourne
While the Coalition continues to slump in recent polling, the prime minister’s approval rating steadies.
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Peter Read, Australian National University; Lizzie May, Indigenous Knowledge
The government recently announced a new reparations scheme for Stolen Generations survivors. However, these survivors are only a fraction of the Indigenous children separated from their families.
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Science + Technology
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Michael James Walsh, University of Canberra; Stephanie Alice Baker, City, University of London
Twitter’s design promotes avoidance as the solution to hostility, but it also needs space for restorative activity that could genuinely resolve conflict.
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Environment + Energy
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Zoë Thomas, UNSW; Haidee Cadd, University of Wollongong; Larissa Schneider, Australian National University
Australia’s alpine region warmed for about 600 years. What makes this climate change particularly interesting is that it bears striking similarity to today.
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Birgita Hansen, Federation University Australia
Imagine flying for five days straight, arriving at your destination emaciated and exhausted, only to find your habitat has disappeared. Such is the plight of the Latham’s Snipe.
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Arts + Culture
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Lisa Portolan, Western Sydney University
Lisa Portolan was 19 when The Secret Life of Us premiered. Stumbling upon the four seasons on Netflix, she anticipated a blissful lockdown TV escape, but instead found nostalgia had a dark side.
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Latoya Aroha Rule, University of Technology Sydney; Lilly Brown, The University of Melbourne; Natalie Ironfield, The University of Melbourne
Incarceration Nation has the potential to shake the very core of your understanding of what it means to be Blak on this continent.
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Education
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The question for universities is no longer whether to offer work-integrated learning but how to do it well, especially now that digital technology has expanded the scale of what is possible.
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