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The Australian approach to lifting standards of schooling has a crucial blind spot: the role of the people and communities outside school in supporting students.
Lower participation and poorer performance in cross-country running by students at low-SES schools is troubling, because physical activity and fitness are closely tied to health and well-being.
Our analysis revealed the relative attention our news and opinion pieces gave to First Nations peoples began to grow steadily from around 2005, with a huge peak in 2007.
In this era of mega-fires, diverse strategies are urgently needed so we can safely live with fire.
Social disadvantage can cause stress that leads to changes in ‘connectivity’ between brain regions, potentially harming adolescents’ ability to plan, set goals, and self-reflect.
Western Sydney’s growth-driven boom had ended before COVID-19 hit. Some neighbourhood unemployment rates were 2-3 times the metropolitan average, with female workforce participation as low as 43%.
Young people from working class backgrounds in socially deprived areas are far less likely to choose, or have the opportunity, to study languages at secondary school, than their more affluent peers.
Children growing up in the most disadvantaged suburbs also lack the social opportunities to develop skills and aspirations that would improve their prospects in life.
Community gardening improves people’s health, and our new study has found it does wonders for disadvantaged groups living in social housing.
Australian cities generally minimise negative attributes such as crime, segregation and violence, but developing positive attributes such as inclusivity appears more challenging.
Women have further abortions are not treating it “like contraception” but have good reasons that are often beyond their control
The neediest suburbs get a much poorer deal in Sydney than in Melbourne. A new study provides a suburb-by-suburb breakdown of state investment, including what facilities and services have been funded.
Shape-shifting bodies. Cracking voices. Hairs sprouting in new places. Why do some children enter puberty early?
With the winding back of government support for housing, ‘gateway’ suburbs that have in the past accepted and supported recent immigrants are becoming increasingly unaffordable.
Reintroducing selective education will not solve deep economic and social inequalities.
New research finds almost a million Australians are living in poor or very poor-quality housing, with more than 100,000 in dwellings regarded as very poor or derelict.
Recognising the symptoms of the dispossessed will prevent crimes against humanity.
Where you live affects your health and life expectancy. This makes it possible to map health outcomes against train stations, so that you can readily see the inequalities across cities like Melbourne.
Rather than redressing inequality, universities are exacerbating it. They need to take radical steps to turn this around and offer better education across the socio-economic spectrum.
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Honorary Associate, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Health Equity, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Visual Analytics and Data Science Storytelling at Western Sydney University, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Foundation Chair in Primary Health Care, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology, School of Education, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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Professor, School of Education, Flinders University
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Professor, College of Business, Government & Law, Flinders University
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Professor Epidemiology & Equity in Public Health & Director, Institute Health Transformation, Deakin University
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Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology, The University of Melbourne
