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Australian of the Year Katherine Bennell-Pegg joins space medicine workshop in Hobart

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Australian of the Year Katherine Bennell-Pegg says Tasmania is now a global hub for extreme and remote environment medicine, having joined leading astronauts, engineers and doctors in Hobart for a ...

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