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How to avoid eight common grammar errors, such as using “amongst” and “whilst” instead of “among” and “while”.
Can Australia achieve fair and open decision-making and a just and sustainable energy transition when big coal players are involved?
Melanesia’s oceans are worth at least US$5.4 billion, but are under increasing threat.
Well-intended efforts to reduce food waste could threaten some birds and animal species, a new paper has warned.
Every single Cavendish banana plant worldwide is genetically identical. This vast monoculture sets them up for disastrous disease outbreaks. But researchers have ideas on how to protect the crop.
‘Sport is my religion’ isn’t just a cute bumper sticker. Athletes create rituals, endure suffering and face their own mortality. Under the right circumstances, sport can be a powerful – and secular – spiritual practice.
Queensland currently gets 7% of it’s electricity from renewable sources - but is aiming for 50% by 2030.
Transfer pricing is a common form of legal tax avoidance, and it’s costing governments millions.
Children and adolescents relate to each other through social media, for good and for bad.
It is important to prosecute militants who destroy antiquities. But ‘everyday’ development - from dams flooding towns to the impact of mining on Indigenous rock art – does vastly more damage to heritage than war.
Recently published research has found that the concentration of poorer people in hotter places is a real problem for cities’ capacity to cope with climate change.
A new clause being embedded in a number of university contracts attempts to restrict academics from speaking freely in public debate about issues that are outside their area of research.
It is particularly dangerous to be an elderly person in Tanzania’s rural areas and villages. Legislation exists to protect this group, but it’s not being translated into reality.
New South Wales’ U-turn on its greyhound ban says much about the calibre of politicians and their subjugation to the media.
It’s uncommon internationally for workers to have a statutory right to paid domestic violence leave, but things may be shifting.
To decide between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, American voters will have to decide which narrative they prefer, leaving the truth to emerge later from the political rubble.
Recurrent fires in Kenya’s Chyulu Hills have been linked to illegal activities and are often attributed to squatters who live in the hills.
Conjunctivitis is a common condition that often occurs in outbreaks – but what exactly is it?
A beautiful interactive SBS online documentary puts the spotlight on Marra, an Indigenous language spoken fluently by just three people.
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Industry Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Head of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences; Director, The Queensland Centre for Olympic and Paralympic Studies, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Researcher, The University of Queensland
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PhD, Paratexts in Genre Fiction, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
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HERA Program Director - Health Workforce Optimisation Centre for the Business & Economics of Health, The University of Queensland
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Neil G Sipe is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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PhD student studying urban stormwater management, Environmental Engineering research group, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Physics & UQ College, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Sports Coaching; Affiliate, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland
