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Control fire and ferals in Australia’s tropical savannas to bring the small mammals back

In remote central Arnhem Land, finding a northern brushtail possum is encouraging for the local Indigenous rangers. Though once common, such small native mammals are now rare. Many are threatened with extinction.

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Plans to build prison work camp at farming college

A territory government hopes to turn part of a university agricultural college into a prison farm work camp to help ease pressure on overcrowded jails.

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Other lives: British servicewoman who set up a motel in the remote Australian outback

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Aussie road rules are not ready for self-driving cars

Road rules will need to be changed before autonomous vehicles become more common, or lawsuits could follow.

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Around 9,000 species have already gone extinct in Australia and we’ll likely lose another this week – new study

More than 95% of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without backbones – spiders, snails, insects, crabs, worms and others). There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in Australia. Of these, two-thirds are unknown to western science.

The Conversation

Crocodile culling an ineffective and expensive way to reduce attacks, Northern Territory study finds

Education campaigns to change human behaviour and relocation of problem reptiles are better ways of managing risk, researchers say

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Disgraced NT Crocodile Expert Sentenced To 10 Years Jail For Torturing & Sexually Abusing 42 Dogs

Disgraced zoologist Adam Britton was sentenced to 10 years jail after he was found guilty of sexually abusing, torturing, and killing 42 dogs.

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'Grotesque' depravity to dogs lands croc expert in jail

A judge who jailed crocodile expert and academic Adam Britton for the torture and killing of dozens of dogs said he had inflicted "unimaginable" suffering.

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Charles Darwin University asked inquiry not to publish staff submissions critical of its support for harbour project

In letter vice-chancellor requested committee not publish joint submission by two academics and redact parts of second submission ‘unfairly’ critical of CDU

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Birthing on Country means best start in life for babies

The Molly Wardaguga Research Centre is scaling up its Birthing on Country program to help improve wellbeing and lives of First Nations mothers and babies.

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Newcastle's Mulletfest crew hits the road for Red CentreNATS in Alice Springs

Mulleted manes will be judged at Mulletfest parades this weekend.

Newcastle Herald

Bid-rigging is rife in Australian construction, but the process itself is partly to blame

Earlier this year the Federal Court found ARM Architecture and its then managing director Tony Allen were guilty of attempting to rig bids for a tender relating to a $250 million building project at Charles Darwin University.

The Conversation

The Gonski dream: how can governments restore funding – and trust – to public education?

Experts say Australia’s leaders need to change the narrative on public schools, and make a clear case for funding private ones

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‘Where is the accountability?’: Indigenous children bear the brunt of Australia’s unequal education system

In the Northern Territory, the failure to implement the Gonski funding reforms has left students with the fewest resources further disadvantaged

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The importance of nomenclature in food

The European Union aims to stop others from using location-specific food terminology — but there's lots of pushback

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PhDafuck: A Professor Was Found To Have Plagiarised His Own Students’ Work In Academic Journals

He should’ve TurnedHimselfIn haha.

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‘Painting with fire’: how northern Australia developed one of the world’s best bushfire management programs

Right now, hundreds of bushfires are burning across northern Australia. But this is not a wildfire catastrophe – in fact, these burns are making things safer in one of the most fire-prone landscapes in the world.

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Vigil held for slain university student as Darwin student community calls for greater safety

Darwin's Bangladeshi community continues to band together after the death of 23-year-old university student Md Isfaqur Rahman, who was killed during an alleged violent home invasion during the week.

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Darwin student allegedly attacked by home invader 'in his own bed', university says

Students at Charles Darwin University will today hold a vigil for a 23-year-old in a critical condition following a violent home invasion.

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Green ants drive away birds, bugs giving fruit farmers an organic way to control pests

Fruit grower Andrew Kang has actively used green ants for five years to get rid of sap-sucking and fruit-spotting bugs, and even larger animals like sulphur-crested cockatoos.

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Danger of poor housing in remote communities

People in remote communities have survived thousands of years of weather extremes but need proper housing and clean energy for climate change resilience.

The Guardian - AU

Urgent calls to end compulsory unpaid internships as students forced to quit due to cost of living

Australia’s students ‘burnt out and disillusioned’ in vocational degrees, with hundreds of hours of unpaid work leading to high dropout rates

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Special Report: Indigenous lessons

Indigenous knowledge can help us better adapt to and mitigate climate change.

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A rare disease in the Top End affects muscles for speech. Here's how we're designing alternative ways to communicate in Yolŋu languages

Machado-Joseph-Disease (MJD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease that affects muscles in the body, including those required for speech. It is prevalent in some remote First Nations communities in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

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Nursing students at Charles Darwin University face graduation delays as workforce shortage continues

The Northern Territory is 130 full-time equivalent nurses short, but its only university has been forced to slash the number of enrolments for its nursing program.

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