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  2. Thumbnail for Your guilt-free guide to flowers this Valentine’s Day

    Your guilt-free guide to flowers this Valentine’s Day

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/528-your-guilt-free-guide-to-flowers-this-valentines-day
    8 Feb 2018: Valentine’s Day means saying it with flowers. Last year Australians imported more than 5. 22 million rose stems between February 1 and 14, mostly from Kenya. Assuming typical bouquets of 24 roses, that’s 217,500 bouquets sold in two weeks. The
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    Budget policy check: does Australia need personal income tax cuts?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/584-budget-policy-check-does-australia-need-personal-income-tax-cuts
    23 Apr 2018: In this series - Budget policy checks - we look at the government’s justifications for policies likely to be in this year’s budget and measure them up against the evidence. In this piece we look at the need for personal income tax cuts. A large
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    Gaming or gambling?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/659-gaming-or-gambling
    4 Jul 2018: The Australian Senate has passed a motion to investigate whether purchasable random rewards in video games (known colloquially as loot boxes) constitute a form of gambling and whether they are appropriate for younger players. Our recent paper,
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    A fresh perspective on Tasmania, a terrible and beautiful place

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/740-a-fresh-perspective-on-tasmania-a-terrible-and-beautiful-place
    10 Oct 2018: The island of Tasmania lies suspended beneath Australia like a heart-shaped pendant of sapphire, emerald and tourmaline. Here is where the world runs out, crumbling into the vast expanse of the Southern Ocean. Island Story: Tasmania in Object and
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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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    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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    What lies beneath

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/768-what-lies-beneath
    1 Sep 2018: To shore up Australia’s future economy and prepare us for the ongoing effects of climate change, researchers are decoding ancient mineral messages in Earth’s crust and tracking movements of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Over the past decade, 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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    Migrants’ latest health challenge: Scabies

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/640-migrants-latest-health-challenge-scabies
    8 Jun 2018: Scabies, long considered a disease of the past in the developed world, is making its way back. This highly contagious parasitic skin disease, which is caused by the burrowing itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis, is most commonly transmitted
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    A fiery future for Australia is forcing experts to ask, “Are we ready?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/769-a-fiery-future-for-australia-is-forcing-experts-to-ask-are-we-ready
    2 Sep 2018: Back in 2009, the devastation wreaked by the Black Saturday fires in Victoria shook Australians to their core, as the worst bushfires in the country’s history resulted in unprecedented casualties and loss of property. For fire services across the

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