Brisbane – Four engineering students from the University of Queensland have developed a mobile vaccine storage system for rural communities in Cambodia. The new vaccine storage unit (VSU) will allow vaccines to be safely stored and transported to the Kandal province of Cambodia, where healthcare standards are considerably poor. According to designer and team spokesperson […]
Keeping the Peace – The Problems Facing UN Peacekeeping Missions
Too often the evening news reports on warfare and bloodshed in a foreign nation, geographically and culturally removed from Australia. Disturbing images of gun-toting militia, bomb ravaged cities and injured children bombard the screen. A khaki covered foreign correspondent tells a sad story about failed democratic reform and the ensuing conflict between various liberation/terrorist/government organisations, […]