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Mother’s Day Classic
Open Forum | May 6, 2013Every year on Mother’s Day, (12 May 2013) the Mother’s Day Classic walk or run raises money for National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) research programs and awareness of breast cancer in the community.
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TEDx Sydney
Open Forum | May 5, 2013The Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House will host TEDx Sydney on Saturday, 4 May for a live audience of 2,200. TED is a US based not-for-profit enterprise that aims to broadcast ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. TED started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment and Design.
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Shine On – 25 years of transforming young lives
Louise Baxter | May 3, 2013Starlight Children’s Foundation celebrates its biggest annual fundraiser, Starlight Day. Louise Baxter, CEO of Starlight, explains how the Foundation is aiming to raise $1.5 million to transforming the experience of hospitalisation and treatment for seriously ill children across Australia.
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Are Abbott’s careful words a smokescreen on RU486?
Lee Rhiannon | May 2, 2013After the announcement that the abortion drugs RU486 and Misoprostol could be approved for tax subsidy by the government, Greens senator for NSW Lee Rhiannon questions the motives of Tony Abbott’s careful reaction.
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What is the real reason we are being told we need a new school funding model?
Carolyn Pyne | May 1, 2013The current way of how schools get their funding seems to tick all the boxes in being fair and effective. So why do advocates of change really want a new school funding model, asks Carolyn Pyne.
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Privacy Awareness Week
Open Forum | May 1, 2013Privacy Awareness Week is happening from 28 April to 4 May 2013. Held each year to promote greater privacy awareness and the importance of protecting personal information, Privacy Awareness Week is an initiative of the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities Forum (APPA).
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Spanish economy in crisis
Marta Conejo Sobrino | April 30, 2013Some claim that the average Spaniard holds more wealth than a German. But after the property bubble imploded in 2008, Spain is still suffering from a weak economy and soaring unemployment rates, says Spanish journalist Marta Conejo Sobrino.
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Starlight Day
Open Forum | April 29, 2013The Starlight Foundation is celebrating 25 years of transforming the lives of seriously ill children and their families on Starlight Day, 3 May 2013.
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Animal Worship: Horse Reverence in Australia
Binoy Kampmark | April 29, 2013Is the collective outpouring of emotions after the retirement of the record-breaking racehorse Black Caviar out of proportion? It certainly isn't new, says Binoy Kampmark from RMIT University.
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Beyond the Clever Country
Tara Brabazon | April 26, 2013As the Federal Government is proposing to cut the funding to universities to help reform the school sector, Tara Brabazon, Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, argues that we are jeopardising the future of education.
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Anzac Biscuits
Open Forum | April 24, 2013As we take time to remember those who served their country this Anzac Day we look at the origins of the much loved Soldiers’ Biscuits.
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Bound Together: Research shows children with Autism are attached to their parents
Nancy Sadka and Josephine Barbaro | April 24, 2013A common view of autistic children is that they are unable to form emotional attachment. Nancy Sadka from the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre shows that they indeed do exhibit a secure attachment towards their caregiver.
