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Bottom trawling footage from David Attenborough documentary Ocean.

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Andrew Forrest.

Why Andrew Forrest bankrolled David Attenborough’s last great project

The mining billionaire was a nature-loving teenager when he first fell in love with Attenborough’s films.

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David Attenborough in Ocean With David Attenborough.

David Attenborough has a new film for his 99th birthday – and it’s surprisingly optimistic

The legendary documentary maker is sharing the importance of the ocean to the planet’s future.

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Adventurer and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis AM poses with an emperor penguin from the 1916 Antarctic expedition of Ernst Shackleton.

Shackleton saved his men from the ice, and now Tim Jarvis wants to save the ice from us

A virtual reality film opening at the Australian Museum on Saturday brings to life Shackleton’s tale of endurance, and highlights the changes to the ice since his trip more than 100 years ago.

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There is plenty of life in the old cash yet, thank you

Bec Wilson asserts the banks believe cash will disappear in seven years (“Cash is dead. Why are we still pretending it isn’t?“, May 11). She should have written that the banks want cash to disappear in seven years. This is so they can charge retailers more in transaction fees who can then pass it on to consumers.

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