Hantavirus cruise ship passengers have left Perth quarantine. But how might quarantine affect them? History has some answers.
- Research Affiliate, Discipline of History, University of Sydney
Les traitements des morsures de serpent ont beaucoup évolué depuis deux siècles. Si les plus anciens nous semblent étranges aujourd’hui, ils avaient un sens dans le contexte de leur époque.
Shipwrecks, plane crashes and lost desert expeditions in Australian history all feature stories of horror and disaster that rival the thrilling TV show Yellowjackets.
Drawing thoughtfully on the Powerhouse Museum’s collection, this exhibition lovingly exposes the humanity behind biomedical technology.
Virgin Australia has gone into administration. From the collapse of former airlines we know staff might not only lose a job, but a family.
We commemorate the centenary of the end of WW1, but victims of a more deadly threat are rarely remembered. Let’s change that.
For over a century Australia’s venomous snakes have been counted amongst the world’s deadliest, yet human fatalities remain strikingly rare. How did our snakes develop such a fearsome reputation?
Snake bite treatments have changed remarkably over the past 200 years. But most, if not all, made sense in their historical context.
Consider two furry Australian animals: the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus). Both icons in their own way, both live only in Australia and both were…
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