‘Students can escape poor teachers, but they can’t escape poor assessment’

‘Patients with cancer performed significantly worse than we predicted’

Interview by Daniel Horsley

‘We want people to be able to use their knees forever’

Interview by Scott Tibballs

‘Doctors and nurses, even those we hadn’t trained, wanted to use the book and apply it to the care they delivered’

Interview by Annie Blatchford

‘The spinal cords of test animals were cut to create a spinal injury similar to what happens when a human spinal cord is severed in an accident’

‘Women didn’t want to go to a performance and know that they were seeing girls who were surviving on the smell of an oily rag and who were selling sexual favours to gentlemen’

Interview by Rachel Furolo

‘Football was a way that children who came from different backgrounds could bond with their friends in the schoolyard’

Interview by Matthew Wade

‘I believe that doctors need to draw on two sets of skills to do their job effectively for both themselves and the patient’

‘Each baby is precious. We who work in neonatal care speak up for them; we speak loudly’

Interview by Karen Coombs

‘Now, I love the game but my argument is that the thing that people love about football is that it’s social.’

Words by Ronelle Richards

‘I don’t think we can claim to really understand the universe if we only understand a tiny fraction of it.’

Interview by Katelyn Swallow

‘Many people associate fluency and big words with success, but it doesn’t have to be like this.’

Interview by Bessie Byrne

‘It’s important to know that it’s not just Aboriginal history. It’s Australian history.’

Interview by Josh Ribarich

‘In the year 2050 the number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease in Australia and in the world will have tripled.’

‘More storm chasers have died from road fatalities than from actual tornadoes.’

Interview by Rose Iser