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How to maintain the balance between boundaries and freedom in secondary school parenting

  • Written by: Andrew Martin, Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW
imageThe role of parents and carers in high school students' learning and achievement is critical. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock

How can parents best help their children with their schooling without actually doing it for them? This article is part of our series on Parents’ Role in Education, focusing on how best to support learning from early...

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Why you should eat a plant-based diet, but that doesn't mean being a vegetarian

  • Written by: Katherine Livingstone, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
imagePlant-based diets have been found to be far more beneficial for our health. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Plant-based diets are often shown to be good for health. Yet Australians eat a lot of meat and are sometimes reluctant to completely cut meat from their diet. So it’s important to know that eating a plant-based diet doesn’t have to...

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Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs

  • Written by: Jarrod Ormiston, Assistant Professor in Social Entrepreneurship, Maastricht University
imageRefugee Talent, a digital matching platform to assist refugees in finding work in Australia, emerged out of one of the Techfugee Sydney Hackathon events.alan jones/flickr, CC BY-SA

While on the run from war, persecution and natural disasters, refugees are actually helping others in their situation. They are creating organisations and enterprises...

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Explainer: how Australia's military justice system works

  • Written by: Sam Hartridge, Teaching Fellow and PhD Candidate, UNSW
imageThe rules of engagement regulate the conduct of Australian troops in conflict areas.AAP/Dave Hunt

The ABC this week published leaked defence force documents that allege Australian special forces soldiers in Afghanistan committed acts such as possible unlawful killings. If the allegations are found to be true, how could those involved be charged and...

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  2. Politics podcast: Graeme Samuel on data governance
  3. Network Ten's future is all about media power, not economics
  4. Can property survive the great climate transition?
  5. How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language
  6. Why it matters to transform parent involvement from early childhood to primary school
  7. Resume robot wars: how employees could match employers' use of tech in job applications
  8. How many people can Australia feed?
  9. What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space
  10. Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
  11. Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology
  12. The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal
  13. We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next
  14. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  15. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
  16. From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits
  17. Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer
  18. Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong
  19. Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
  20. What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality
  21. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  22. What actually is a good city?
  23. Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?
  24. How we change the organisms that infect us
  25. Eleven games and activities for parents to encourage maths in early learning
  26. Three charts on: G20 countries' stealth trade protectionism
  27. The UN is slowly warming to the task of protecting World Heritage sites from climate change
  28. Smartphone apps can be memory aids for people with brain injuries, and everyone else
  29. Curious Kids: Are zombies real?
  30. From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children's books
  31. Turnbull loses 15th successive Newspoll, 53-47. UK Labour doubles support in YouGov since April
  32. Turnbull finds the sensible centre a slippery patch
  33. Why GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and why it's time to set targets
  34. How worried should you be about lead from Aldi taps?
  35. With better data access, urban planners could help ease our weight problems
  36. Donald Horne's 'lucky country' and the decline of the public intellectual
  37. How Australia's discrimination laws and public health campaigns perpetuate fat stigma
  38. Explainer: what can Tesla's giant South Australian battery achieve?
  39. All tip, no iceberg: a new way to think about mental illness
  40. La Mama demonstrates the value of independent theatre
  41. Can you spare 5 minutes for The Conversation?
  42. More reason to use Meningococcal B vaccine – it could also cut the Clap
  43. Why a population of, say, 15 million makes sense for Australia
  44. How we've evolved to fight the bugs that infect us
  45. Five lessons from Tokyo, a city of 38m people, for Australia, a nation of 24m
  46. How to encourage literacy in young children (and beyond)
  47. Migrants are stopping regional areas from shrinking
  48. Delaying action on car emissions will make Australia more vulnerable
  49. A time capsule containing 118 trillion cubic feet of gas is buried in northern Australia
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