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The history of the Gallipoli region enhances the story of the Anzac campaign and situates it in a notably rich cultural context.
Channel Ten’s newly announced show, The Great Australian Spelling Bee, may seem like a great platform for promoting literacy skills. But it is promoting the memorisation of pointless, low-frequency words rather than anything helpful.
From a big blue marble to a tiny dot in space – reflections on our images of Earth.
Men might believe that women don’t have what it takes to be serious sports fans but new research into female AFL fans proves them wrong. Some women are footy converts, some have it in the blood – and some were born to it.
Women are no less interested than men in international work assignments, but fewer get the opportunity.
The Queensland government wants companies to use waste water from coal seam gas extraction for useful purposes such as recharging aquifers. New CSIRO research shows that, with careful monitoring, it can be done.
The United States’ post-2020 climate target raises many questions for this year’s global climate talks, and puts pressure on Australia to raise the stakes.
The east coast of Australia is currently experiencing one of its worst outbreaks of mosquito-borne disease in years.
Kids will be turned off reading if they have no interest in the material. Comics or picture books are fine as long as the child enjoys it.
Darwin’s finches are known to be a paragon of evolution by natural selection, but a recent genetic discovery relating to their beaks highlights the evolutionary connectedness of all life.
The crisis of public confidence in politics is not limited to Australia, but public disengagement, retail politics and lack of vision are crippling our ability to tackle long-term and wicked problems.
Bill Shorten has labelled this the year of ideas but obviously Labor would rather have the overwhelming attention on the Coalition for as long as possible.
Mobile networks are making the transition to 5G technology, promising faster data transfer and improved coverage.
With Australia planning its own Google tax, we’re likely to see state power and sovereignty come into direct conflict with corporate might.
Supermarket giants are predictably opposed to
Harper Review’s effects test, but the report is a mixed bag when it comes to other retail competition issues.
Pregnant women get all kinds of advice but reliable, evidence-based information on what they should eat for their good health as well as that of their developing child is often sorely missing.
If the 5.5 million unpaid carers didn’t look after others – at the expense of careers and incomes – taxpayers would bear the costs, so as a community we should give carers a fairer deal in retirement.
The main question to ask of the Harper report is: what will make a tangible difference to our economic prosperity?
The social media giant has taken a tougher line on abuse. But is it enough?
The arrival of subscription video on demand services Netflix, Stan and Presto have implications for what we call “television” in Australia – and much of the policy detail remains to be hammered out.
What are the implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Indonesians of an edict from the nation’s top Muslim clerical body that homosexuality is a sin that should be punishable by death?
The proposition that Easter is a 100% Christian affair is manifestly unsustainable. It shows an ignorance of history. Worse, it shows a failure to understand the way religious traditions work.
Big reforms in taxation and competition policy are on the table for the Abbott government, but has it spent too much political capital to get any of them across the line?
Before calling for more regulation to combat predatory lending practices, consumer advocates should consider wages and the problem of insecure work.