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Date Time $1.5m investment in works to improve access to national parks Work is underway to give national park visitors easier access to some of Adelaide’s popular sites as part of the Marshall Liberal Government’s record investment in parks across South Australia. Morialta Conservation Park in Adelaide’s east and Mark Oliphant Conservation Park in the Adelaide Hills are the first projects to receive funding as part of a $1.5 million investment to boost visitor experience, improve safety and increase car parking capacity. An increase in visitation at Mark Oliphant Conservation Park in t...

By Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University Sixty years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space when he completed his historic orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961. It was an extraordinary achievement, but created a dilemma for a world embroiled in the Cold War. Gagarin’s spaceflight heralded a vision of a unified planet. However, in the battle between communism and capitalism, space technology was also a weapon to demonstrate the superiority of one political system over the other. The Soviet Union was winning...

Australia could have become a nuclear power: physicist Greg Clark The scientist and businessman says climate science is still a work in progress and that Australia needs a national project. Dr Greg Clark: “I wanted to be a professional footballer. I really did. I went and had one try-out with St Kilda and realised that was one training session, wasn’t going to make it. So I did physics.”  Dominic Lorrimer Share It's the morning of my lunch with leading Australian scientist and businessman Greg Clark and I get a text from former Liberal minister Warwick Smith: "Tony, be nice to my Tasma...