Christine Kenneally
The Nation Reviewed
Work and Play: Melbourne Zoo at 150
Christine Kenneally
The exoskeleton of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect is such a deep, glazed black that it looks like it crawled out of a Flemish oil...
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The Nation Reviewed
I Heart New Yorker: Amelia Lester
Christine Kenneally
Amelia Lester’s ‘fearlessness’ sounds Australian. Her ‘integrate’ sounds American, and her ‘loved’ – as in, “I loved growing up in Sydney...
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The Nation Reviewed
Triple Zero’s Emergency: Why Dialling ‘000’ May Not Save Your Life
Christine Kenneally
A few years ago in Terrey Hills, NSW, a man stumbled upon the collapsed body of a jogger who had had a heart attack. He called triple zero...
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The Nation Reviewed
Speech Bubbles: Christine Kenneally on Dubious Real Estate Coverage
Christine Kenneally
On 5 March at the third auction of a house in North Fitzroy, Melbourne, one bid was made. The house had been advertised at “$980,000+” and...
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The Nation Reviewed
Lousy Science: Lice Infestations in Australia
Christine Kenneally
In a laboratory in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Melbourne, Vern Bowles slides a Petri dish into a microscope and...
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The Nation Reviewed
Archive This
Christine Kenneally
“That’s red tape,” said Kate Cumming, a senior project officer at New South Wales State Records, pointing at a 20-centimetre high spool of...
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Books, Arts & Letters
Primary Care: Tim Flannery’s 'Here on Earth'
Christine Kenneally
For many years, India’s White-rumped Vulture population was large and thriving, but from the late 1990s the number of vultures suddenly...
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