In the wake of ongoing issues of censorship in schools in America, author Margaret Atwood has teamed up with Penguin Publishing to release a one of a kind unburnable edition of her award-winning novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. In the last decade, The Handmaid’s Tale was in the top 30 most challenged books in American schools and libraries. The special edition of the novel is being auctioned to the public with all proceeds going to PEN America, a group that “works to ensure that people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, to convey information and ideas, to express their views,…
Author: Nicholas Tisdale
The loss of cricket legends Rod Marsh, Shane Warne, and Andrew Symonds has had a major impact on sports and entertainment-loving Australians. The three were valued for far more than just their extraordinary cricketing feats, they were role models for future generations and inspired change, according to those who have followed them closely. La Trobe University’s Emeritus Professor Brian Stoddart has studied sporting culture in Australia with a particular focus on cricket. He has said the deaths of these major sporting figures have had a major impact on the wider Australian public. Illawarra cricketers Hayden and Dylan said Warne, Marsh,…
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released data on expenditure directed toward Research and Experimental Development in Higher Education in 2020. The data, released last week, was collated through a biennial survey conducted by the ABS that has been occurring since 1992. During the 2020 calendar year, the total expenditure on Research and Development was $12,668 million, a 4% increase in funding when compared to 2018. Higher education organisations in New South Wales received the largest increase in funding with an additional $188 million in funding, a 5% funding increase since last year. Besides NSW, all states with the…
The Mungo Man and Mungo Woman are two of the most important archaeological finds in human history. The burial of the Mungo Man is the oldest evidence of ritual burial in human history. Aged at approximately 42,000 years old the remains fundamentally rewrote the academic understanding of human history. The Mungo Man was originally removed from the site without the permission of traditional owners in 1974. In 2017 those remains were returned and placed on display in the Lake Mungo visitor centre. The remains are now once again at the centre of the news. After a period of deliberation by…
Today on The Spot, Scarlett Lewis speaks with Aidan Gaffey of Smart Energy about the increasing number of Australians who are switching to renewable energy and how our energy systems cope with natural disasters such as the recent floods. Mr Gaffey spoke about the environmental, safety and cost benefits of choosing Renewable Solar Energy sources over fossil-fuel-based energy, in light of the Queensland and NSW floods; and rising concerns about climate-change exacerbated weather events. He also emphasised the benefits that solar energy could have in providing Australians with a reliable energy source in the event of a flood emergency, to…