By Llewellyn Leonard, Professor of Environmental Science, University of South Africa
South Africa subsidises fossil fuel companies to the tune of R118 billion (US$6.2 billion) a year. As G20 president, South Africa must push to end these subsidies.
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By Samantha Lakin, Lecturer, Clark University
Memory and politics are inherently intertwined and can never be fully separated in post-atrocity and post-genocidal contexts. They are also dynamic and ever-changing. The interplay between memory and politics is, therefore, prone to manipulation, exaggeration or misuse by clever actors to meet a range of political ends.
This applies too to Rwanda’s commemoration period (Kwibuka). It runs from April to July each year,…
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By Charles Helm, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
Clive Thompson, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
Jan Carlo De Vynck, Honorary researcher, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to between 90,000 and 140,000 years ago.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will launch another push on health on Sunday, announcing a re-elected Labor government would set up a free around-the-clock 1800MEDICARE advice line and afterhours GP telehealth service.
The service would be launched from January 1 and cost A$204.5 million over the forward estimates.
Albanese will tell a Sydney rally that people would be able to call at any time to get advice from a nurse. If the problem couldn’t wait for their regular GP, they would be connected to a free GP telehealth consultation.
“Life isn’t 9 to 5. Neither…
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By Daria Dergacheva
Environmental foundation specialists not only rehabilitate bats but also educate locals on how to feed them and where they spend the winter before being released.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will launch another push on health on Sunday, announcing a re-elected Labor government would set up a free around-the-clock 1800MEDICARE advice line and afterhours GP telehealth service.
The service would be launched from January 1 and cost A$204.5 million over the forward estimates.
Albanese will tell a Melbourne rally that people would be able to call at any time to get advice from a nurse. If the problem couldn’t wait for their regular GP, they would be connected to a free GP telehealth consultation.
“Life isn’t 9 to 5. Neither…
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By Forus
“Audre Lorde said, ‘There is no hierarchy in oppression.’ My activism is rooted in this belief. Whether it’s gender-based violence, ethnic discrimination or economic marginalization, our fights are linked,”
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By Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them seriously enables their success.
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By Dalia Tarek
This law comes in amid an increasingly hostile environment against press freedom in Peru, with activists arguing: “This law establishes a control similar to that of a police state.”
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By Catherine Norton, Associate Professor Sport & Exercise Nutrition, University of Limerick
Struggling to stand up from the toilet could signal the beginning of the end for independent living – here’s how to stay strong as you age.
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