Kate Rossmanith
Close at Hand
Kate Rossmanith
One morning in 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a merchant and amateur scientist in the Dutch city of Delft, set about the daily ritual of...
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On the Edge
Kate Rossmanith
On a Friday afternoon in late spring last year, a young woman tumbled 15 metres off a cliff top at north Coogee, in Sydney. Within minutes...
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Ivy League
Kate Rossmanith
Our continent has a wretched history of invasive species. Ecosystems have succumbed to exotic animals such as foxes, rabbits and carp,...
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Waterworld
Kate Rossmanith
A hundred kilometres off the coast of Gladstone, on the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, is a tiny island made from the bones of coral...
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Crocodile Fears
Kate Rossmanith
In March last year, days before Cyclone Larry tore through Far North Queensland levelling towns and banana crops, a Port Douglas man found...
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Many Me
Kate Rossmanith
On the front desk at the head office of Sydney IVF, in Kent Street, rests a marble statue of three fused figures. Two adults and a child...
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