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Join the first humans on Mars

MARS has been “bounced and rolled over, shoveled and drilled into, smelled, baked, tasted, and laser zapped” — all that’s missing is the first human footprints in the dust. Is this what a Mars landing will be like?

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Students on a learning curve

WE have struggled to keep students in classrooms, but there is new hope that extending high schools to year 12 will help Tasmania arrest its alarming dropout rate. Will it pass the test? Or will politics send us back to the drawing board?

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