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How building your child's spoken word bank can boost their capacity to read

  • Written by: Signy Wegener, PhD Candidate in the Department of Cognitive Science and ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
imageChildren benefit from previous understanding of spoken words before reading themAfrica Studio/Shutterstock

Children’s oral vocabulary – their knowledge of the sounds and meanings of words – is strongly positively associated with their reading all the way through school. Understanding this relationship is important for making...

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Mozzies are evolving to beat insecticides – except in Australia

  • Written by: Ary Hoffmann, Professor, School of BioSciences and Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne
imageMosquitoes are the main vectors for dengue and zika. Insecticides are our best weapon against them. Anja Jonsson/Flickr

Chemical pesticides have been used for many years to control insect populations and remain the most important method of managing diseases carried by pests, including mosquitoes. However, insects have fought back by evolving...

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Explainer: What is 'fair dealing' and when can you copy without permission?

  • Written by: Nicolas Suzor, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageFair dealing allows Australians to use copyrighted content for news and reporting.antb/Shutterstock

Copyright law sometimes allows you to use someone else’s work - as long as it’s fair. In Australia this is called “fair dealing”, and it’s different to the law in the US, which is called “fair use”.

These...

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Boost for military's role in combatting domestic terrorism

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageThe Defence act will be strengthened to enable defence personnel to play a bigger role in counter-terrorism.David Mariuz/AAP

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is to be given a bigger role and greater powers in combatting terrorism, under changes announced by the government on Monday.

The measures - including specialised training by special forces...

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  6. Explainer: what is pre-pregnancy carrier screening and should potential parents consider it?
  7. The National Electricity Market has served its purpose – it's time to move on
  8. Blaming migrants won't solve Western Sydney's growing pains
  9. A brief history of Al Gore's climate missions to Australia
  10. Got pre-diabetes? Here's five things to eat or avoid to prevent type 2 diabetes
  11. Memo to COAG: Australia is already awash with gas
  12. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull and the 'sensible centre'
  13. Business Briefing: are our standards dropping in the workplace?
  14. Explainer: what are 'creepshots' and what can we do about them?
  15. Four outdated assumptions prevent progress on affordable housing – to everyone's cost
  16. Student employment and inflexible university policies drive online drop out
  17. Publish and don’t perish – how to keep rare species' data away from poachers
  18. Step by step, we're tackling gender equity in Australian astronomy
  19. Friday essay: painting 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'
  20. The unlikely 21st century reboot of an ancient philosophy
  21. Grattan on Friday: Hanson's 'outsider' politics a challenge for Turnbull as he sits in 'sensible centre'
  22. Gilead and the billion-dollar odyssey
  23. Platform co-ops offer urban communities a bigger say in their lives
  24. The Conversation attends Global Fact 4, with fact-checkers from around the world
  25. How a special forces 'band of brothers' culture leads to civilian deaths in war
  26. Are Australia's native pigeons sitting ducks?
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  29. How to maintain the balance between boundaries and freedom in secondary school parenting
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  32. Explainer: how Australia's military justice system works
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  34. Politics podcast: Graeme Samuel on data governance
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  37. How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language
  38. Why it matters to transform parent involvement from early childhood to primary school
  39. Resume robot wars: how employees could match employers' use of tech in job applications
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  42. Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
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  44. The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal
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  46. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  47. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
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