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Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration 4: Douglas Mawson.

• Friday, 30 May, 2008 • 3 Comments

Posted in World History
Tags: Australian Antarctic Expedition, Australian Antarctic Territory, British Antarctic Expedition, explorer and geologist, Sir Douglas Mawson, South Magnetic Pole

Congratulations Sonya Hartnett, winner of Sweden’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

• Thursday, 29 May, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Arts
Tags: Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Australian children's writer, modern young adult fiction, Sonya Hartnett

Germany bans the pesticide Poncho blamed for mass bee deaths.

• Tuesday, 27 May, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Climate Change, Green Issues, Politics, World Economics
Tags: Bayer CropScience, Cdlothianidin, declining bee numbers, pesticide kills bees, Poncho banned in Germany

Teacher’s pay is the problem says the Business Council of Australia.

• Monday, 26 May, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Politics, Social Policy
Tags: Business Council of Australia, national assessment and accreditation system, outstanding teachers, recruiting and retaining teachers, teacher education courses, teachers remuneration, the education revolution

Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration 3 – Ernest Shackleton.

• Friday, 23 May, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in World History
Tags: antarctica, Endurance Expedition, Ernest Shackleton, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Nimrod Expedition

Australian writer places Australian children’s literature on the world stage.

• Thursday, 22 May, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Arts
Tags: Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, children and young people's literature, Sonya Hartnett, Sydney Writer's Festival, The Swedish Arts Council

”Brittlestar City’ on underwater summit thrive on Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

• Tuesday, 20 May, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Climate Change, Green Issues
Tags: antarctic circumpolar current, brittlestars, Climate Change, impact of offshore commercial fishing, New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric, seabed mining, seamount geology and physics, Survey of Macquarie Ridge

Women held back by an ‘hourglass ceiling’, ANU research shows.

• Monday, 19 May, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Politics, Social Policy
Tags: Australia's has longest full-time work hours, gender inequity, hourglass ceiling, long-hours culture, time pressure problems, traditional family structure, unequal sharing of family time, workplace

Coal ash waste converted into building materials to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

• Sunday, 18 May, 2008 • 1 Comment

Posted in Climate Change, Green Issues, World Economics
Tags: building materials, coal fired power stations, emissions savings, fly-ash from coal, greenhouse gas emissions, lightweight aggregate, pollution, reduce volume of cement