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  Cybersecurity skills shortage putting Australia at risk, experts say

  Instances of cybercrime are on the rise — and experts are warning Australia could be left woefully unprotected due to a widespread IT security skills shortage.

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  Meet the bold birds of Lord Howe Island

  From terns to shearwaters, the birdlife of Lord Howe perplex scientists. How did they get there? Ann Jones visits the island to find out more.

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  Why did it take Arundhati Roy 20 years to write a second novel?

  The 1997 Booker Prize winner returns with a polyphonic novel encompassing contemporary India in all its sorrow and joy, writes Patrick Carey.

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  Call for corporate Australia to invest in remote Indigenous art centres

  Indigenous artworks adorn the boardrooms and lobbies of corporate Australia. So why do fewer than ten per cent of Aboriginal artists make a living wage? Daniel Browning investigates.

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  Meet five young Australian scientists who want to change the world

  RN has announced 2017's Top 5 Under 40: a group of young Australian scientists with a lot to say.

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  'Hijacked by a bunch of dickheads': The use and abuse of the Southern Cross

  In 2010, filmmaker Warwick Thornton made an off-hand remark to a journalist, suggesting that the Southern Cross was morphing into a racist symbol — like the swastika. People got very upset, writes Daniel Browning.

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  What is it like to wake up during an operation?

  Imagine waking on up on the operating table: aware of voices, movement and pain, but unable to move. It's a rare experience — but it does happen. Mira Adler-Gillies investigates.

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