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A focus on phonics may be the cure to Australia’s literacy woes.
Up to 236,000 tonnes of microplastic enter our oceans each year.
Exams do have a purpose, but they shouldn’t be used to assess the recall of meaningless facts.
Classing e-cigarettes as quit smoking aids could help rebrand the tobacco industry as a legitimate player in health policy. Here’s why we should be concerned.
Members of House Standing Committee on Economics should be asking the directors of Australia’s Big Four banks (not the CEOs) different questions, if they really want the right answers.
The image of cowering Christians being thrown to the lions by Roman emperors is a grisly staple of popular culture. But how accurate is it?
If the government decides to remove regional trade protections on the book industry, it should compensate Australian authors. But given how unlikely new funding would be, the best option – for everyone – is to leave well enough alone.
We need a clear plan in place to ensure that no child falls through the net. Such a plan needs to be both effective and cost-effective.
This week, ANZ, the latest (and now the last) of the big four Australian banks to have ventured far away from the nest, confirmed it was coming home into the arms of the Bank of Mum and Dad (also known…
The “Fuck Fred Nile” case highlights the absurdity of criminalising “fleeting expletives” while allowing speech that depicts homosexuality as abnormal, unnatural and sinful.
An ASIC report detailing how financial advice was paid for but not given by Australia’s big four banks exposes a culture problem that the government needs to deal with.
APRA has updated its guidance to lenders on concerns about the risks to financial stability from the housing market, but it should be focusing more on the banks, not hurting those with a mortgage.
A new database that shows the use of gendered words in major Australian newspapers tells us much about whose voices are being heard.
Apparently, the world is holding its breath on the unloading of a few bales of cotton, which “could change trade forever”. In Qingdao sometime in early November, 88 bales of cotton will be unloaded and…
Bob Dylan is now a literary celebrity. And next week, the Booker Prize judges will anoint another. The tag is still chiefly attached to men but women authors shouldn’t despair: fame and good writing can be uneasy bedfellows.
Just when we all thought that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) had already won the race to be most ineffective regulator of the year, up pops the Australian Prudential Regulation…
We have scholarships specifically targeted at women to redress the gender imbalance in STEM subjects. So why can’t we do the same for men in primary education?
Here’s how social and political power can come together in cities, to counteract the focus on short-term profit.
Knock knees (and bow legs) are generally a normal part of a child’s growth and development. But if they persist, they can become problematic.
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Professor in Law, Macquarie University
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ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Post doctoral fellow and Conservation Ecologist, Macquarie University
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Honorary Professor, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Macquarie University
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Professor in Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Plant Ecology, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Professor of Physiotherapy, Macquarie University
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Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Fellow, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology, Macquarie University
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Research Director, Australian Microplastic Assessment Project (AUSMAP); Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University
