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Vulnerable preschoolers are slipping through the cracks
Susan Skelly | May 20, 2024Many preschoolers are missing out on the early childhood education they are entitled to according to a new report led by Professor Linda J Harrison, from Macquarie’s School of Education.
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Things fell apart
Alexander Howard | May 20, 2024Social media continually bombards us with piecemeal fragments of a selectively curated approximation of something that passes for reality, stoking division and angst.
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The business of burning out
Andreana Drencheva | May 20, 2024We all want to work on something we’re passionate about, but placing placing too much of your sense of self in your work can strain your mental health and personal relationships.
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Taiwan lives
John West | May 20, 2024Niki Alsford’s recent book, “Taiwan Lives,” explores how the Taiwanese people have created one of the world’s most high-tech economies, a successful and vibrant democracy, and a distinctive cultural identity.
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Her?
Marcel Scharth | May 20, 2024OpenAI’s release of CGT-4o marks a pivot towards personalising AI chatbots to differentiate them from their competition, rather than any significant increase in capability.
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Labor’s first term report card
John Quiggin | May 19, 2024The Albanese government’s electoral strategy has constrained it to do little more than tweak the policy settings it inherited from the previous government, and adopt them as its own.
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Vaccines save lives
Sheel Meru | May 19, 2024The chance of living one more year is up to 44 per cent more likely thanks to the past 50 years of vaccines, according to new research. But global drops in vaccine coverage pose a risk to further progress.
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The good, the bad and the ugly
Alan Tidwell | May 19, 2024America’s Congress cannot play games with funding of initiatives in the Pacific. Nor can policymakers merely continue with existing and outdated programs. Too much is at stake.
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Don’t look back
Agnes Arnold-Forster | May 18, 2024Nostalgia was once thought to be a potentially fatal illness, but is now co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell us goods and policies harking back to ‘better days’ which perhaps never existed.
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The nature of nature
Tom Oliver | May 18, 2024Changing the dictionary definition of nature from “as opposed to humans” to “including humans” would encourage people to use the word in a way that reflects how humans are intertwined with the whole web of life.
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Small is beautiful
Tim Rock | May 18, 2024While large animals may dominate nature documentaries, most life on Earth is very small indeed, for very good reasons.
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Speaking up for women in sport
Catherine Ordway | May 17, 2024As Australia grapples with a “national crisis” of violence against women, what can men in sport do to help? A minute’s silence is fine in itself but being quiet isn’t enough.
