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Flies may be irritating creatures, but they play an incredibly important role in both ecology and human society. We need flies to make chocolate, and we use fly larvae to treat infections and even solve crimes. Flies also played a role in the development of the Australian accent. Guest: Bryan Lessard, entomologist and author of Eyes on Flies. Bryan is appearing at this year’s Sydney Writers Festival.
over 2 years ago
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With a population greater than Canberra and Hobart combined, Kutupalong refugee camp is home to 600,000 people and more than half of them are children. They fight a daily battle for survival.
about 6 years ago
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Australia is committed to buying 72 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, but officials from the US Government Accountability Office warn there may not be enough spare parts to go around, meaning the jets often can't leave the tarmac.
over 6 years ago
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An upcoming report from The Grattan Institute shows there is no way to identify the individuals and organisations behind more than $60 million worth of donations to Australian political parties last year.
over 7 years ago
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Jaimie Byrne was supposed to be closely monitored while being treated for an ice addiction and depression.
over 7 years ago
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One person with disabilities is killed by their carer almost every three months in Australia, but these acts of domestic violence are often excused by the media and judiciary. The focus is too often on the killer. Here, we recognise the victims.
over 7 years ago
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The financial calculations for a lot of property mortgages in the Murray-Darling Basin may be on shifting ground, warns a former senior public servant with the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
over 7 years ago
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The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is six years in and Australian taxpayers have spent $8 billion on it so far — yet the internationally significant ecosystem at the end of the basin, the Coorong, is dying.
over 7 years ago
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An opera about Cinderella and her wicked stepmother composed by 11-year-old British girl Alma Deutscher has its world premiere in Vienna - but don't call her the next Mozart.
almost 9 years ago
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Manuka honey made by bees foraging on Australian native plants has antibacterial properties at least as powerful as the famous New Zealand variety, according to new research, but New Zealand producers are trying to trademark the name.
almost 9 years ago
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A Kalgoorlie paediatrician says the human consequences of closing a dedicated Aboriginal health service are becoming apparent.
about 9 years ago
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Former East German athletes subjected to a state-sponsored doping regime open up about the long-term effects of steroid abuse and warn Russian athletes, and any others around the world, that the price of doping is just too high.
over 9 years ago
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Australia's corporatised, self-regulated fertility industry is increasingly selling snake oils, false hope and unnecessary treatments to women desperate to become mothers, experts say.
over 9 years ago
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A 10.7-kilogram gold nugget is loaned to the Australian Museum for display after public servants discover it locked away in box they were using for impromptu cricket games.
almost 10 years ago
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Two sets of documents provide insight into the extraordinary number of siblings donor-conceived people can have, and the strange and, at times, heartbreaking experience of not knowing who they are.
almost 10 years ago
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Their identities were meant to be kept secret, but now $100 DNA tests are allowing donor conceived people to track down their donor dads and half siblings. Sarah Dingle has the story.
almost 10 years ago
abc.net.au
After a 15-year-old schoolboy shot dead a police accountant at Parramatta police centre in Sydney last week, there's greater demand for answers as to why some young Australian Muslims are being driven into the arms of extremists.
about 10 years ago
abc.net.au
There I was, a journalist of Asian background, listening to a man talk openly about how he had planned to kill as many Asians and Arabs as possible. But call me crazy: I found his honesty refreshing.
over 10 years ago
abc.net.au
What makes young men and women from the suburbs of Australia decide to go and fight for Islamic State? In the first of a two-part special investigation Sarah Dingle takes us inside the process of radicalisation. Australian Muslims talk openly about the pull of IS and we discover new cases of people leaving Australia to fight in Syria.
over 10 years ago
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An award-winning evolutionary biologist turns down Australia's most prestigious research fellowship, saying the lack of Federal Government support for science is making it hard for scientists to produce world-class research.
almost 11 years ago
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Obesity is now the leading cause of premature death and disease and doctors are commonly seeing obesity-related illnesses in children that they didn’t see 20 years ago. So what happened to the national obesity strategy? Sarah Dingle investigates.
almost 11 years ago
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