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Business Briefing: what to do about low incomes

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Assistant Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation
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Australia is facing an income recession warns economist Janine Dixon from Victoria University. To fend it off we need to increase different types of productivity.

Income per capita, one way to measure living standards, is 3% below the peak of 2012 and this is tied to slow growth in Australia’s economy.

This not necessarily a big...

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What it means when kids walk on their toes

  • Written by: Cylie Williams, Adjunct Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Monash University
imageThere are a number of reasons some children struggle to walk with a flat foot. from www.shutterstock.com.au

This is part of our series on kids' health. Read the other articles in our series here.


When toddlers are learning to walk, many spend some time walking up on their tip toes, which is known as toe walking. Commonly this is to get into things...

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Speaking with: Hannah Dahlen on pregnancy care

  • Written by: Dallas Rogers, Lecturer in Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
imageRecent studies have revealed an emerging understanding of the benefits of birthing relationships through the childbearing process.Shutterstock

Recent studies have revealed an emerging understanding of the benefits of birthing relationships through the childbearing process. Creating a healthy mental state through pregnancy, birth and postnatal care...

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Redetermining paradigmatic norms: is there any hope for academic writing?

  • Written by: Siobhan Lyons, Tutor in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

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