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Differentiation is not about about creating different lessons for every student. It’s about teachers providing a range of options for students to demonstrate their learning.
Overnight, Maria Sharapova called a press conference to announce she had tested positive for a banned substance (mildronate) during this year’s Australian Open.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned that Labor’s negative gearing policy would deliver “massive shocks” to the residential housing market and drive all investors away. Does that claim stack up?
When a cricket match is cut short there’s a way to work out how many runs are needed in any reduced over game. That’s okay for the long form game but it doesn’t work for the shorter matches.
Western leaders and activists should show humility and allow themselves to be guided by local organisations if they wish to be effective in promoting same-sex rights.
Parents who provide learning support at home can improve their child’s literacy and emotional development, regardless of their class or educational background.
ASIC has a high success rate, but its high-profile civil action against ANZ Bank will be a tough battle to win.
Asking female porn directors to share their work for free on International Women’s Day is a backward step that masks industry inequalities.
Most heart attacks are not “massive”. In these instances, further tests are necessary and the diagnosis can then become quite challenging.
Curbing negative gearing will help get empty housing onto the market. This could go some way to bringing life back to relatively dense urban centres that are oddly lacking intensity of public life.
If ASIC gets its way and ‘conduct risk’ is regulated, banks might get serious about systematic problems.
The second-wave feminists of the 1970s wanted to create radical shifts in gender power. Instead, women have settled for much less.
It’s been more than 40 years since a French sex workers strike kicked off a lively global human rights movement, but their legacy lives on.
Australia’s largest companies are happy to tick gender reporting boxes, but when it comes to pay equity they are largely silent.
Record-breaking years have been almost impossible without human-caused climate change.
It’s fitting that on International Women’s Day we recognise the fact that greater diversity in science boosts research and its economic outcomes.
There are hopes that another piece of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has been found. But authorities still don’t know what happened to the aircraft, and the 239 people on board.
Those who benefit from, and defend, freedom of speech are often those who already enjoy the most privilege in society.
Lack of confidence, negative attitudes and low student participation rates are just a few of the challenges maths and science teachers face.
Intuitively, we believe offering someone options automatically expands their freedom. But that isn’t always true. Sometimes, more options can lead to less freedom.
Proponents of legalising euthanasia claim it’s needed to ensure dying patients don’t experience unbearable suffering. But in fact, this is the one setting in which law change isn’t needed.
Burns are one of the most common injuries, affecting as many as 200,000 Australians each year.
Ice cores tell us vital information about how the world’s climate has changed - and how it will change in the future.
The debate about the right to be forgotten might be characterised as a showdown: privacy and compassion versus information and freedom. But its solution need not be that simplistic.