Tabitha Carvan is a Senior Writer at the ANU College of Science.
When Dr Lara Gillan visited Questacon as a child, she was too scared to drop into the infamous free…
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Every evening in our old house, always around the same time, we’d hear the rumpeta-rumpeta-rumpeta on the roof. “The possums…
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Early one morning, in the winter of 1985, Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band was on a coach…
Sometimes I think I’ve gone too far with seeing the world through a gendered lens. I mean, does…
“You don’t ever want to go in that room,” Professor Imogen Mitchell says, pointing at a doorway as…