New Colombo Plan Scholar acts on disability inclusion
2020 New Colombo Plan (NCP) Scholar and UQ philosophy and economics student Adele Greedy-Vogel wants to make her mark in disability inclusion.
CityU researcher: Kangaroos can intentionally communicate with humans
A research team led by a scientist who is now based at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has discovered that kangaroos, animals that have never been domesticated...
Researchers sound alarm on sugary drinks
Almost 80 percent of drinks in New Zealand supermarkets are sugary, swelling health risks and indicating industry self-regulation is failing, researchers say.
Gambling rates dropped during height of COVID restrictions
Gambling rates in Australia dropped off significantly during the height of COVID-19 restrictions, before increasing again over the past six months...
Vitamin supplements may have small effect on COVID-19 risk for women
Researchers at King’s analysing data from an app have found that certain vitamin supplements may have a small effect on reducing the likelihood of catching COVID-19 for women but not men.
Reckoning with Australia’s colonial archive: poet Natalie Harkin wins RAKA Prize
Narungga woman and South Australian poet, Natalie Harkin has won the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award for her work Archival-Poetics, an unflinching anthology that faces the violence...
Genre-defying work wins 2020 Adam Foundation Prize
A genre-defying work that examiners describe as being “of great significance” has been awarded the IIML 2020 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing.
Ringo Starr of the bird world heading for extinction
New research from The Australian National University shows palm cockatoos, renowned for their human-like musical drumming behaviour, are threatened with extinction.
Waikato University computer science students help Africa medical charity
An international charity which finds sponsorship for medical students to study in Africa has had a helping hand from a team of Waikato University computer science students.
“Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs” wins Cundill History Prize
Camilla Townsend receives US$75,000 – the largest reward for a work of non-fiction in English – for the first-ever history based solely on texts written by the Aztec people.
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