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  2. Thumbnail for Can you tell fact from fiction in the news?

    Can you tell fact from fiction in the news?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/716-can-you-tell-fact-from-fiction-in-the-news
    10 Sep 2018: Have you clicked through to this article from your news feed? Are you checking it on your phone? More of us are consuming news online, and increasingly we’re turning to social media for news. Social media platforms are now the main source of news
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    First reconciliation, then a republic

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/520-first-reconciliation-then-a-republic
    26 Jan 2018: Professor Maggie Walter, Pro Vice Chancellor (Aboriginal Research and Leadership) and Professor of Sociology, examines Australia Day in this opinion piece for The Conversation. I have always been rather taken with Gary Larson’s Far Side
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    Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/513-explainer-the-evidence-for-the-tasmanian-genocide
    17 Jan 2018: At a public meeting in Hobart in the late 1830s, Solicitor-General Alfred Stephen, later Chief Justice of New South Wales, shared with the assembled crowd his solution for dealing with “the Aboriginal problem”. Voluminous written and
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    The best seats in the house

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/648-the-best-seats-in-the-house
    28 Jun 2018: When these six students signed up to study at the School of Creative Arts they had little notion that by second year they would be working on a professional commission. And for one of Australia’s premier arts festivals, no less. As part of their
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    Sledging songs, penguins, and melting ice

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/715-sledging-songs-penguins-and-melting-ice
    2 Sep 2018: When Douglas Mawson led Australasia’s first expedition to Antarctica in 1911–14, his crew took along a folding organ, a concertina, a flute, a piccolo and a mouth organ, as well as a gramophone, records and a hymn book. Program for The
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    Righting the wrongs of the past

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/775-righting-the-wrongs-of-the-past
    9 Sep 2018: Historians are working with Australian Indigenous communities to return the bodily remains of their Old People to country from overseas museums and universities. The early years of Australian colonisation in the late 1700s coincided with the
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    We need to think about the legal implications of futuristic biotech

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/760-we-need-to-think-about-the-legal-implications-of-futuristic-biotech
    27 Aug 2018: Consider a future where millions can be protected from deadly malaria, and where hospitals are free from devastating antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Imagine what life would be like with high-tech brain-computer interfaces and bionic bodies, and –
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    The Unconformity: the power and peculiarity of Tasmania's wild…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/749-the-unconformity-the-power-and-peculiarity-of-tasmanias-wild-west
    11 Nov 2018: Of the many festivals dotted across the island state of Tasmania, The Unconformity is particularly well named. It is an inherently unique event, responsive to the particularities of the western town of Queenstown’s unique geology, ecology and
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    This philosopher is changing the way we think about ethics

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/774-this-philosopher-is-changing-the-way-we-think-about-ethics
    4 Sep 2018: Centuries ago, the English metaphysical poet John Donne famously observed, “No man is an island entire of itself,” conveying a universal truth that humans are necessarily connected to one another, that the human life is a life lived with
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    On the trail of the London thylacines

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/573-on-the-trail-of-the-london-thylacines
    9 Apr 2018: On a cold, dark night in the winter of June 2017, hundreds of people gathered on the lawns of Hobart’s parliament house to join a procession that carried an effigy of a giant Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) to be ritually burnt at Macquarie Point. In

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