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No food, no fuel, no phones.

Bushfires showed we’re only ever one step from system collapse Australian Navy Anthony Richardson, RMIT University This summer’s bushfires were not just devastating events in themselves. More broadly, they highlighted the immense vulnerability of the systems which make our contemporary […]

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How effective is the pill?

If you take the pill ‘perfectly’, it’s 99.5% effective, but most women don’t. from www.shutterstock.com Deborah Bateson, University of Sydney and Kathleen McNamee, Monash University About one-third of people using contraception use the pill. But how effective is it? There […]

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Did they see it coming?

How fortune-telling took hold in Australia – with women as clients and criminals Though illegal, fortune telling was only sporadically prosecuted. Here, two women set up tents at the 1913 Adelaide Children’s Hospital fete. State Library of SA Alana Piper, […]