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The emotional toll of COVID-19 among early childhood educators
Melissa Barnes | August 10, 2020Despite growing concerns over school teachers’ mental health as they tackled remote learning, little attention has been given to the experiences of ECEC educators.
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A golden opportunity to repurpose old mines
Mohan Yellishetty | August 10, 2020Abandoned mines litter Australia, but these sites can be turned from environmental problems into new opportunities for water storage, landfill and other useful purposes.
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Diplomacy at a distance
Melissa Conley Tyler | August 10, 2020Australia’s diplomats are doing important work during the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of department cuts, as they help to ensure the safety and security of many Australians.
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Global value chains in the post-COVID economy
Satoshi Inomata | August 9, 2020COVID-19 is likely to accelerate the move toward ‘peer value chains’ among countries with similar institutional arrangements.
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Contrasting Australian and German public policy
Dawn Lo | August 9, 2020The average Australian household is wealthier yet more indebted than the average German household, partly due to tax and retirement income policies.
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Is COVID changing our personalities?
Open Forum | August 9, 2020Our personalities have been known to change during unusually distressing times, such as a global pandemic locking us all away in our homes, but researchers from the US say that so far the COVID-19 pandemic has had very little effect on the “Big Five” personality traits.
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Arvanitakis on American politics: Less than 90 days to the election
James Arvanitakis | August 8, 2020We are now less than 90 days away from the USA Presidential elections. Given the pandemic, associated economic downturn and continuing civil strife, the next three months are likely to get even more interesting.
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Tackling the stigma around public housing
Alistair Sisson | August 8, 2020To destigmatise public housing, fundamental changes in our housing system are needed. Better design, maintenance and stories are helpful, but can only do so much.
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How COVID-19 changed the way we work
Richard Holden | August 8, 2020Employers have long feared that working from home makes employees less productive. An analysis of 3 million workers in 16 cities during lockdowns suggests the opposite.
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Small business at the front line of cyber-security
Alison Howe | August 7, 2020The Federal government’s new cybersecurity strategy includes welcome enhancements to the recognition of the vulnerability of the SME sector and a range of new initiatives.
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Was Sweden right to eschew COVID lockdowns?
Andreas Ortmann | August 7, 2020A full accounting of how Sweden’s non-lockdown approach to COVID-19 has fared compared to other country’s will take time, and will involve trading off health, economic, educational and other outcomes.
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How social media bots seed social discord
Elise Thomas | August 7, 2020The widespread proliferation of low-quality, unsophisticated but persistent disinformation and political influence efforts on social media can crowd out genuine information.
