Early childhood learning through lockdown

Long COVID lockdowns affect children at all stages of the education spectrum, but the Early Start Discovery Space team offers an online program providing high-quality, evidence based early childhood education activities delivered direct to families at home via Zoom.

Sustainability and resilience in times of crisis: Understanding Western Sydney’s disadvantage

Disadvantaged Western Sydney communities require evidence-based, long-term, and inclusive strategies to improve their education, health and economic outcomes.

Cult is just a four letter word

It is tempting to use words like cult or cult leader when talking about a group or a person we don’t like or can’t understand, but when people hear the word, discussion often ends before any study has begun.

Cause for concern over the BNPL boom

“Buy-now, pay-later” schemes can offer convenience to customers, but can also lure people into spiraling debt, as BNPL providers are not subject to responsible lending and financial-hardship obligations and there is no requirement on them to consider the income or existing debt of customers.

Why uncertainty makes us change our behaviour

Uncertainty affects people’s behaviour in unpredictable ways. Stocking up on toilet paper – bizarre as it appeared, for example – helped many people regain a sense of control at the start of the pandemic.

Tabi on racial matters: Your bias training doesn’t fix systemic inequalities

Bias training in Australian organisations is usually carried out by people with no experience of personal marginalisation and does nothing to overcome broader structural inequalities.

Higher, stronger, dirtier?

Another Olympics is upon us, delayed for a year due to COVID-19. Amid the joy of participation, there remains inevitable speculation around the doping scandals which have dogged international sport for over half a century.

The devil is in the details

The Devil personifies the “evil” within all of us, and so always has new domains, new territories, and new borders in which he “walks about, as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour”.

The global scourge of ransomware

The ongoing ransomware attacks that continue to strike unabated around the world must act as a red flag. And, because we’ve been warned, we need a plan to deal with them.

Believe in tomorrow

Many things which once appeared impossible are now commonplace. Despite the many challenges with which we are faced, we should have faith that humanity can take a great leap forward to triumph over them – and our self doubts.

Protecting Australia – and what makes us Australian

Dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to further fracture and fragment our understanding of civil liberties and national security and how to protect them both.

Health v the economy is a false dichotomy

While the health of the economy and the population are often pitted against each other, most economists agree that lockdowns are the best option when tackling a serious COVID outbreak.