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SCIENCE BLOG: At last, potential for real paradigm shift!

Wed Jun 1, 2011

With yesterday’s release of the Garnaut Report, Associate Professor Caroline Sullivan from the School of Environmental Science and Management at Southern Cross University provides her opinions about what the report’s findings mean for taking action to minimise climate change.

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SCIENCE BLOG: The Japan Daiichi incident moves on - Friday update

Fri Mar 18, 2011

The following information was prepared by Dr John Price who is a former member of the Safety Policy Unit of the National Nuclear Corporation UK, a professor at Monash University, Australia and now a private consultant.

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SCIENCE BLOG: Reactor safety in north-eastern Japan

Wed Mar 16, 2011

Reflections on Reactor Safety in North-eastern Japan
These are the personal views of Dr  Don Higson, retired nuclear safety specialist and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, Fellow of the Australasian Radiation Protection Society

I believe it will eventually be understood that events over the past few days at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in north-eastern Japan [...]

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SCIENCE BLOG: Reactor incidents in Japan

Tue Mar 15, 2011

Dr John Price is a former member of the Safety Policy Unit of the National Nuclear Corporation UK, formerly a Professor at Monash University and now a private consultant.

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SCIENCE BLOG: Some basic realities of natural disasters - crisis and recovery management

Wed Jan 12, 2011

As Queensland reaches crisis point, psychologist and crisis management expert Associate Professor Robert Heath from the University of South Australia comments on the nature of crisis management, community expectations and coping with trauma.

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SCIENCE BLOG: The pandemic that never was…..because it was dealt with

Mon Aug 16, 2010

Prof Robert Booy, a Paediatrician and infectious diseases expert at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, responds to reports that the swine flu pandemic is over and that the threat was overplayed.

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SCIENCE BLOG: Climate history battles greed driven politics

Thu Jul 29, 2010

Peter Schwerdtfeger is a meteorologist and emeritus professor at Flinders University.   Here he offers an alternative view of climate change.

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SCIENCE BLOG: Water and Population - The Ongoing Partial Solution

Wed Jul 21, 2010

A report released by the Australian Water Services Association this month warns that, with population growth, Australia’s major cities could face an additional water demand of 600 billion litres per annum by 2026 and over 1000 billion litres by 2056. Here Barney Foran looks at increasing urban water demand when all things are considered.  Talking only [...]

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