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How to help your kids with homework (without doing it for them)

  • Written by: Melissa Barnes, Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University
How to help your kids with homework (without doing it for them)There's a delicate balance between helping, and over-helping.from shutterstock.com

Parents are a child’s first and most important teachers. Parent involvement in their child’s learning can help improve how well they do in school. However, when it comes to helping kids with homework, it’s not so simple.

While it’s important...

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Bridget McKenzie has made herself a sitting duck

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Bridget McKenzie has made herself a sitting duckBridget McKenzie's political future could be determined by Scott Morrison's inquiry into whether she breached ministerial standards.Lukas Coch/AAP

Bridget McKenzie’s future is looking bleak, her position having worsened significantly this week.

At its heart, the McKenzie affair is simple. Before last year’s election, the then-sports...

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a witty imagining of what went before that fateful encounter

  • Written by: Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
a witty imagining of what went before that fateful encounterIn The Visitors, seven senior law men discuss what to do about approaching ships, unlike anything they've seen before. Victor Frankowski

Review: The Visitors, directed by Frederick Copperwaite for Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival has really outdone themselves this season with a spectacular line-up of Indigenous shows to choose from including The...

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Should we be worried about the new Wuhan coronavirus?

  • Written by: Ian M. Mackay, Adjunct assistant professor, The University of Queensland

The World Health Organisation has postponed its decision about whether to classify the new Wuhan coronavirus as a global health emergency. It wants to gather more information and will meet again at midday on Thursday in Geneva (late Thursday night, Australian time).

In the meantime, China has barred people from leaving Wuhan from 10am today, local...

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  1. Australia needs a national fire inquiry – these are the 3 key areas it should deliver in
  2. Can Tennis Australia honour Margaret Court and promote LGBT+ inclusivity at the same time?
  3. Homes with higher energy ratings sell for more. Here's how Australian owners could cash in
  4. Sport can be an important part of Aboriginal culture for women – but many barriers remain
  5. Australia's special dependency on volunteers to battle bushfires
  6. how unis have supported students after a crisis
  7. the public art teacher who brought the Blue Poles to Australia
  8. Scott Morrison orders probe into whether Bridget McKenzie breached ministerial code
  9. Can’t do what you need to do in a public toilet? You’re not alone – and there's help
  10. Does social media make us more or less lonely? Depends on how you use it
  11. As Earth's population heads to 10 billion, does anything Australians do on climate change matter?
  12. Inside the story: The Trauma Cleaner
  13. The science backs Harry and Meghan turning in their royal privilege. Fame and fortune aren't the keys to happiness
  14. Scientists hate to say 'I told you so'. But Australia, you were warned
  15. We found the world's oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia. It might have triggered a global thaw
  16. even hustlers need side hustles in the gig economy
  17. Juries need to be told how they're allowed to use the internet to ensure fair trials
  18. Bushfire education is too abstract. We need to get children into the real world
  19. I’m taking antibiotics – how do I know I've been prescribed the right ones?
  20. New year, new strategy? Unheralded change to budget targets creates space for stimulus
  21. Australia needs more engineers. And more of them need to be women
  22. It's hard for people with severe mental illness to get in the NDIS – and the problems don't stop there
  23. Many of our plants and animals have adapted to fires, but now the fires are changing
  24. how schools can help students cope after the bushfires
  25. Conservation scientists are grieving after the bushfires -- but we must not give up
  26. Preventing suicide in nursing homes is possible. Here are 3 things we can do to make a start
  27. You think this is a witch hunt, Mr President? That's an insult to the women who suffered
  28. Cousin took a DNA test? Courts could use it to argue you are more likely to commit crimes
  29. Unbuilding cities as high-rises reach their use-by date
  30. Prisoner numbers in Australia have decreased, but we're not really sure why yet
  31. Morrison should control that temper in Liberal climate debate
  32. Australia's threatened bats need protection from a silent killer: white-nose syndrome
  33. exceptional singing and music obscure the political heart of this classic Australian musical
  34. CSIRO wants our laws turned into computer code. Here's why that's a bad idea
  35. A brain transplant for one of Australia's top telescopes
  36. What makes a good psychologist or psychiatrist and how do you find one you like?
  37. Who can break up the 'Big 3' monopoly on men's tennis? Here's what the numbers say
  38. Forest thinning is controversial, but it shouldn’t be ruled out for managing bushfires
  39. scientists create first ever living, programmable organism
  40. How effective is the pill?
  41. Celebrity concern about bushfires could do more harm than good. To help they need to put boots on the ground
  42. Six million hectares of threatened species habitat up in smoke
  43. Before we rush to rebuild after fires, we need to think about where and how
  44. Australian sea lions are declining. Using drones to check their health can help us understand why
  45. With costs approaching $100 billion, the fires are Australia's costliest natural disaster
  46. In cases of cardiac arrest, time is everything. Community responders can save lives
  47. So the government gave sports grants to marginal seats. What happens now?
  48. The Olympics have always been a platform for protest. Banning hand gestures and kneeling ignores their history
  49. how fraudsters take advantage of those in need
  50. Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals

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