Rosie the Shark is a Great White Shark that was preserved in a tank filled with formaldehyde originally on display at the wildlife park called Wildlife Wonderland in Bass, Victoria which ceased business in 2012 due to animal welfare concerns and operating without appropriate licences.
Academic insights reached millions
The story that garnered the most interest from our audience in April was this piece on why new COVID variants necessitate a global ‘maximum suppression’ strategy. It has been read more than 1.1 million times!
It was also republished by more than 28 other media outlets around the world -
including The Guardian, ABC and the South China Morning Post. 84% of its readers were from countries outside Australia.
The second most-read piece was Ritesh Chugh from CQUniversity’s piece on how to deal with water damage to your phone, which received more than 570,000 reads. Ritesh said:
“As an academic, such a wide readership provides great testimony of our public scholarship”