— Harry Frost, ABC News THE FIRST PHASE of the ACT's single-use plastic ban comes into effect this week, meaning plastic cutlery and some takeaway containers can no longer be supplied or sold in the ACT. From Thursday July 1, single-use plastic cutlery, single-use plastic stirrers, as well as expanded polystyrene takeaway food
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SARS, MERS, COVID-19 and Disease X? Another pandemic may still be ahead of us. But what could it be?
— Lucia Stein, ABC News WHILE WE MAY be looking forward to the end of the coronavirus crisis, health experts warn there may be more pandemics ahead of us. Within the last 20 years alone, we’ve “dodged five bullets” with SARS, MERS, Ebola, avian influenza and swine flu. But despite the knowledge gained from those experiences, we
The vanishing Arctic
Lots of models, little monitoring: where is the MDB water?
What spoil sports we are for the Festive Season!
Greta Thunberg’s La Vagabonde voyage
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Aged-care royal commission has had a third of the coverage of banks‘ bad behaviour
It doesn’t add up “A sad and shocking system that diminishes Australia as a nation”. “Inhumane, abusive and unjustified”. “Cruel and discriminating”. After 10 months of hearings and investigations into aged care, Commissioners Lynelle Briggs and the late Richard Tracy listed the most shocking findings in their interim report on Thursday: death from septicaemia
