We spoke to 332 Year 3 students about what they want to be when they grow up. Some responses raised alarms.
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Here are some ways to support people from Afghanistan locally, nationally and overseas.
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Australia’s Senate has voted to prohibit the import of goods made using forced labour. But without government support it won’t become law.
The ongoing debate between teacher-led and student-led learning is simplistic. Education is a complex field and teachers adapt their methods to context. It’s never just one or the other.
The prince may be be staying at Balmoral with the queen, but there is no easy way to escape a new civil claim from Virginia Giuffre.
COVID is running rampant in Myanmar, where the military junta has been accused of arresting doctors and weaponising the pandemic. The result could be catastrophic for the entire region.
The k number tells us whether the spread of a disease is steady or comes in big bursts, with a small proportion of people infecting many others. The latter is know as superspreading.
Earth scientists are on the skilled occupation list for immigration even as universities cut back in this area. The problem lies with a funding model that offers no incentive to lift graduate numbers.
The creep of digital communications into our entire lives is not as harmless as we think.
Barriers to independent national decision making in farming need to be challenged if agricultural sustainability is to be developed.
For those desperate for international holidays, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
With hundreds now killed since the coup and civilians increasingly taking up arms against the junta, there are fears the country could be headed toward civil war.
Two reports — from think tank A New Approach and ex-Grattan Institute director John Daley — say Australian art and culture hasn’t advocated for itself effectively. But we need to try something new.
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