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Dili wedding. How Australian farm work nudges up Timor's marriage rate

  • Written by: Annie Yuan Cih Wu, PhD Candidate in Geography, University of Sydney
Dili wedding. How Australian farm work nudges up Timor's marriage rateDili's Cristo Rei statue of Christ. Australia's Seasonal Worker Program helps Timorese get married and break through class barriers.Shutterstock

A wedding is one of the biggest expenses in Timor.

The bulk of the cost comes from the “barlake”, a Tetum word which can be translated as “dowry”, or “bride price”, even...

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how do magpies detect worms and other food underground?

  • Written by: Gisela Kaplan, Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
how do magpies detect worms and other food underground?Magpies have a few clever tricks to help them find food. Gisela Kaplan, Author provided

How do magpies detect worms and other food sources underground? I often see them look or listen, then rapidly hop across the ground and start digging with their beak and extract a worm or bug from the earth – Catherine, age 10, Perth.


how do magpies detect worms and other food underground?


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Nine things you love that are being wrecked by climate change

  • Written by: Rod Lamberts, Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
Nine things you love that are being wrecked by climate changeIf coffee and wine are things you love, then you need to pay attention to climate change.Shutterstock/Ekaterina Pokrovsky

There are so many stories flying around about the horrors already being wrought by climate change, you’re probably struggling to keep up.

The warnings have been there for decades but still there are those who deny it. So...

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Take a plunge into the memories of Australia's favourite swimming pools

  • Written by: Penelope Rossiter, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
Take a plunge into the memories of Australia's favourite swimming poolsThe Memory Pool's author Therese Spruhan has her own favourite, the Northbridge Baths in Sydney.Therese Spruhan

From the smell of chlorine to water bombing and a mixing of cultures – just some of reminiscences of 28 Australians in the book, The Memory Pool: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming compiled by Therese Spruhan.

Take a plunge into the memories of Australia's favourite swimming poolsNewSouth...

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  13. What NZ and Australia can learn from British Columbia's implementation of Indigenous rights
  14. Australia's nation-building opportunity held hostage by the deficit daleks
  15. How a rethink of emergency care is closing the gap, one person at a time
  16. Seeing the news up close, one devastating post at a time
  17. The timeless appeal of an ocean pool – turns out it's a good investment, too
  18. Scott Morrison's Christmas letter to the colleagues
  19. A new law in India could put Muslims at greater risk of persecution, like the Rohingya
  20. Donald Trump has become the third president in US history to be impeached. He's unlikely to be convicted
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  26. The Rise of Skywalker ends a third Star Wars trilogy. Here's why stories work so well in threes
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  28. Why Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first
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