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Queensland researchers are sampling your soil to solve deadly antibiotic resistance threat AprApril 2021 at 12:58am Sussanah s son Josh and daughter Charlie were keen to find out what was living in their soil. ( Share Print text only Nine-year-old Josh Webb has started looking at the dirt in his backyard differently. âI thought dirt was just like nothing, it was just like a thing that someone just steps on,â Josh said. That was until Josh, with his younger sister Charlie, 6, and their mum Sussanah Osborne, discovered the Soils for Science project at the World Science Festival held in Brisbane last month. The project is an initiative of the University of Queenslandâs Institute for Molecular Bioscience, which is calling on people across the country to collect samples of soil from their backyard. ....
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Robyn Edie/Stuff Invercargill City Council tenant Christine Te Moananui at her Murphy street flat, after speaking to councillors at an infrastructure committee meeting at the council chambers on Tuesday. Invercargill City councillors have been told they will put some of the city s most vulnerable into an even more challenging position if they push on with a rent increase. The council advised tenants of its 215 council-owned units before Christmas of the plan to raise rents by 35 percent. The units are used to house elderly people on limited incomes. Council staff told the tenants the increase was proposed to make improvements as per the recent Healthy Homes Standards and also provide for future upgrades. ....