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  2. Thumbnail for Let the games begin

    Let the games begin

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/570-let-the-games-begin
    5 Apr 2018: Britain’s territorial vastness was neatly summed up in the Victorian era by the observation that “the sun never sets on the British Empire”. For 350 years, dating from when the East India Company was founded in 1600 until after the end of
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    We won’t close the gap

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/542-we-wont-close-the-gap
    19 Feb 2018: The recent Closing the Gap report has highlighted the lack of progress in Indigenous affairs since the apology to the Stolen Generations a decade ago. Although not a specific target, safe, appropriate and affordable housing is acknowledged to be a
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    Why experts are rethinking how we teach statistics in schools

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/802-why-experts-are-rethinking-how-we-teach-statistics-in-schools
    10 Sep 2018: Mathematics is behind everything we do in an advanced society, and as we become more dependent on technology in Australia, it will underpin more jobs than ever before. And yet, fewer and fewer young people are pursuing mathematics in their later
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    Tassie devils’ decline has left a feast of carrion for feral cats

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/801-tassie-devils-decline-has-left-a-feast-of-carrion-for-feral-cats
    29 Nov 2018: The decline of Tasmanian devils is having an unusual knock-on effect: animal carcasses would once have been gobbled up in short order by devils are now taking many days longer to disappear. We made the discovery, published today in the journal
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    The real cost of ocean acidification

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/681-the-real-cost-of-ocean-acidification
    25 Jul 2018: A new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-led paper published in the science journal Nature Climate Change has highlighted the challenges faced by scientists, governments and communities as rising levels of CO2 are absorbed by 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
  8. Thumbnail for Making sense of news – fact from fiction

    Making sense of news – fact from fiction

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/639-making-sense-of-news-fact-from-fiction
    8 Jun 2018: Being bombarded with information from various digital media and social media platforms is a daily reality for the majority of teenagers. Deciphering the plethora of information can be overwhelming, especially with artificial intelligence and bots in
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    How does island life shape Tasmanians?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/782-how-does-island-life-shape-tasmanians
    19 Oct 2018: While geographical disconnection has many obvious implications on daily life (for example the cost of fuel, access to certain services, ability to collaborate with peers, etc. ) the impact of 'place' is also a common theme running through many
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    Migration is slowing Australia's rate of ageing

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/583-migration-is-slowing-australias-rate-of-ageing
    20 Apr 2018: Lisa Denny, Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Social Change shares her expertise with The Conversation. Migration is actually slowing the rate of ageing of Australia’s population. I modelled how much fertility, mortality,
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    Exclusion is not the answer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/627-exclusion-is-not-the-answer
    14 Jun 2018: Tasmania has among the lowest school retention rates in the country. But experts at the University of Tasmania are working to turn this around. Imagine you’re a young person who hasn’t had an easy journey through school. You may be disengaged

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