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Closing the IT gap for indigenous Australians
Dion Devow | December 5, 2019Although information technology may still seem foreign to many Indigenous communities, embracing IT could help sustain, preserve and communicate tbe oldest living culture on earth.
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A splash of green can banish the blues
Kathleen Wolf | December 5, 2019Urban greening is emerging as a key part of the solution to some of our major health and environmental challenges. Here are eight ways to bring a little bit of nature to our city lives.
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Cultural values and democracy
Open Forum | December 5, 2019The relationship of cultural values and democracy is a ‘chicken and egg’ conundrum, does one rely on the other, or are they inter-dependent? New research on political trust may shed light on the answer.
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Australian climate politics need an independent path
Warren Brown | December 4, 2019The failure of Australia’s traditional political parties to act on the worsening climate crisis means that independent politicians must step up to force their hand in the Senate.
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A win for free speech?
Michael Douglas | December 4, 2019New proposals for media reforms will make it harder for people to successfully sue a news organisation for defamation.
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Australia’s ageing population deserves a proper policy
Ebony Stansfield | December 4, 2019Demographic change is projected to slow labour force growth, reducing national income and tax revenue, but this will only be a problem if policy makers ignore it.
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Rescuing Australia’s lost students
Jim Watterston | December 3, 2019The alarmingly high number of school-aged Australians detached from education has been largely hidden – until now.
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Tackling Chinese military infiltration of Western universities
Alex Joske | December 3, 2019Australian and other western universities have been all too eager to accept funding from China for research projects which bolster the Chinese military’s threat.
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“Traffic lights” could encourage healthier food choices
Open Forum | December 3, 2019The effectiveness of the Health Star Rating system in helping consumers make healthier food choices could be increased by using ‘traffic lights’, new research led by Curtin University has found.
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Why most music students drop out
Rachel White | December 2, 2019More than half of year 10 music students in NSW dropped the subject by the time they reached year 12, often so they could choose subjects that would help them get a higher ATAR.
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Are 1 in 4 young people ‘addicted’ to smartphones?
Open Forum | December 2, 2019A metastudy by researchers at King’s College London has estimated that one in four young people have a “behavioural addiction” to smartphones, but doubts have been raised over the validity of this interpretation.
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The global disinformation order
Philip Howard | December 2, 2019We once hoped that social media would help bring down dictatorships, but the use of social media by authoritarian countries to spread their propaganda around the world is actually undermining democratic nations.
