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If Australia was in the Northern Hemisphere, it would be much further south than you might expecthttps://www.happylogic.online/

Australia’s latitude in Perspective

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If the Southern Hemisphere was in the North, where on the map would you be?
Ian Allen 2012

Dr Karl, Twitter and the Camino de Santiago

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The story about a medieval pilgrimage and an iphone and why Dr Karl became Twitter's @doctorkarl
Cover art of the Ingenious! CD-ROM

Ingenious! – creating the CD-ROM

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What if you could build games that were great fun to play, but where the information and principles you picked up while playing, actually had some real value outside of the game?
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Life after television – video on demand

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In 1995, at a time when Pay-TV was just beginning its roll-out in Australia, I produced this report for the ABC on a very different future for television.
Computers in Class room 1995

Issaquah: Student-built computer network

Why not involve the students in building and running the education district's computer network?

15 years before the iPad

In 1995 ABC Science reported on the work of a "skunkworks" team that had the concept of a tablet device which would change the future, but they weren't working for Apple.
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The Internet Explained – in 1995…

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Today we take the Internet for granted, but it wasn't always so. Take a look at this ABC video from 1995 to see how far we've come
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Tim Flannery and the search for the living fossil

Come on an adventure in the Star Mountains of PNG to discover the home of the largest fruit bat that ever lived.

A different kind of Butterfly Effect

Papua New Guinea's butterflies are some of the largest and most beautiful in the world. Now they've become a profitable and sustainable business. 

Crocodiles in Kakadu

It’s one thing to look at crocodiles from the safety of a tour boat, but quite another to be looking into the eyes of a very agitated one – especially when you are low in the water in a tinnie.