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New research uncovers how Australian children actually use Minecraft – shedding light on what devices they use, the social nature of play and a reality check on claims of gender-neutrality.
Disadvantage predicts the extent of poker machine losses far more in Tasmania than in other Australian states and territories.
You might be trying to catch up on sleep. Sleep scientists say some children need only nine hours of sleep at night, while others need as much as 11 hours. It depends on the person.
If we’re going to intervene to stop the dumping of share bikes, we need to understand the bad behaviour in the first place, then design effective measures to change how bike users behave.
Acquiring companies that don’t complement the main business went out of fashion more than a decade ago.
Women who were a healthy weight before pregnancy should aim to gain between 11.5 and 16 kilograms during pregnancy.
The percent of students going without food or other necessities has risen since 2012, with students indicating work-study balance was impacting their daily lives, study success and mental health.
Trust has returned to areas with a higher concentration of ethnically diverse migrants significantly since 2005, but more must to be done if we want to avoid another Cronulla riot.
With 99% of green sea turtles in the northern Great Barrier Reef hatching as females due to changing climate, the future for this species now depends largely on effective global conservation measures.
Aboriginal women are at the heart of two events at the Sydney Festival, which grapple with the impact of colonisation on their lives.
From an Australian perspective, shifting power in the Indo-Pacific will be of primary importance in 2018 and beyond.
Our health depends on the quality of air indoors, where most of us spend 90% of our time. The easiest solution is to open a window, but what if that’s not an option?
Last year was a vicious one for climate and energy politics. And with a South Australian election and various other federal decisions in the offing, 2018 looks like being similarly rancorous.
A theatre production of Mark Haddon’s much-loved novel is affirmative and at times deeply sentimental, with a hi-tech set, and exacting choreography.
Accounts and other tax professionals might face some awkward conflicts of interest thanks to the federal government’s proposed whistleblower laws.
Blood is red, but our veins are blue. Or are they?
People have been forced to move in the past thanks to changes in sea levels that affected Australia’s coastline.
Intimate partner homicides where there is no known history of violence are not uncommon.
New medical staff start in January and may not be as skilled or adept as their predecessors, meaning more things go wrong.
A flat management structure can reduce costs and boost efficiency but may be hard for larger firms to implement.
New research has found mums can expect to experience cognitive changes during pregnancy.
Across Japan, towns and villages are vanishing as the population ages and young people move to the cities. How the country manages this holds lessons for other developed nations facing a similar fate.
One way to get beyond gender barriers in sport would be to scrap sex segregation and replace it with a system similar to that of Paralympic disciplines.
Indigenous ranger programs have now been running successfully for a decade. Given Queensland’s size and large Indigenous population, there’s a strong case for expanding the program in that state.