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Japanese visual storytelling comes alive at OzAsia

  • Written by: Maggie Ivanova, Senior Lecturer, Drama, Creative and Performing Arts, Flinders University
Japanese visual storytelling comes alive at OzAsiaTotes Adorbs ❤ Hurricane is 'a euphoric spectacle amid pop-culture icons and idols'.OzAsia

Review: The Dark Master and Totes Adorbs ♥ Hurricane, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, 22 October - 8 November

In theatre, the play text tends to drive the storytelling. The interpretation of this text, known as dramaturgy, determines the...

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Mr Morrison, I lost my home to bushfire. Your thoughts and prayers are not enough

  • Written by: Janet Stanley, Associate professor/Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
Mr Morrison, I lost my home to bushfire. Your thoughts and prayers are not enoughPrime Minister Scott Morrison inspecting a burnt-out property in the Gold Coast hinterland in September 2019. Mr Morrison has offered "thoughts and prayers" to those affected by the fires.Dave Hunt/AAP

Fires of unprecedented number and ferocity are today raging in New South Wales and Queensland. Residents in some regions woke to news that the fire...

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this year's OzAsia festival fused worlds in dance

  • Written by: William Peterson, Associate Professor, Flinders University
this year's OzAsia festival fused worlds in danceBritish-Bangladeshi choreographer Akram Khan draws in the dance training of his cast to create a whole new genre of performance.Jean Louis Fernandez/OzAsia Festival

Review: What the Day Owes to the Night, Vessel, and Outwitting the Devil, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, 22 October - 8 November

The most exciting work at OzAsia cuts across genres, styles,...

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Reading is more than sounding out words and decoding. That's why we use the whole language approach to teaching it

  • Written by: Katina Zammit, Deputy Dean, School of Education, Western Sydney University
Reading is more than sounding out words and decoding. That's why we use the whole language approach to teaching itWords can say different things depending on their context.Annie Spratt/Unsplash

When I was younger I decided to learn Greek. I learnt the letter-sound correspondences and could say the words – the sounds, that is. But although I could and still can decode these words, I can’t actually read Greek because I don’t know what the words...

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  1. the story behind our dairy woes
  2. 1 in 10 women with endometriosis report using cannabis to ease their pain
  3. Why every child needs explicit phonics instruction to learn to read
  4. it's not us, it's the other lot, say the experts. So who do we believe?
  5. The government's 'new page' on Indigenous policy is actually just more of the same
  6. Frances Levvy, Australia's quietly radical early animal rights campaigner
  7. As NZ votes on euthanasia bill, here is a historical perspective on a 'good death'
  8. Some women seem to lack a key brain structure for smell -- but their sense of smell is fine
  9. When a tree dies, don't waste your breath. Rescue the wood to honour its memory
  10. Shareholder activism might sound good, but it's delusional to think it will change anything much
  11. Photojournalists are telling an important story and they should interact with their subjects
  12. Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze
  13. 3-parent IVF could prevent illness in many children (but it's really more like 2.002-parent IVF)
  14. No, a 'complex' system is not to blame for corporate wage theft
  15. Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don't want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?
  16. Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen data
  17. The open access shift at UWA Publishing is an experiment doomed to fail
  18. The government is committed to an Indigenous voice. We should give it a chance to work
  19. We may one day grow babies outside the womb, but there are many things to consider first
  20. Reading progress is falling between year 5 and 7, especially for advantaged students: 5 charts
  21. Frozen in time, the casts of Indigenous Australians who performed in 'human zoos' are chilling
  22. Why Australia is still grappling with the legacy of the first world war
  23. Smart tech systems cut congestion for a fraction of what new roads cost
  24. Another COAG meeting, another limp swing at the waste problem
  25. Government set to win its new powers against unions
  26. When the coroner looked at how to cut drug deaths at music festivals, the evidence won. But what happens next?
  27. Are flexible learning options giving schools a convenient way out of taking responsibility for 'difficult' students?
  28. Oh, oh, oh! The clitoris certainly gives pleasure. But does it also help women conceive?
  29. does monetary policy work any more?
  30. Want more jobs in Australia? Cut our ore exports and make more metals at home
  31. Pass the popcorn - Scorsese cinema boycott will shape the future of movies
  32. How NZ's colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka
  33. Michelle Grattan on the government's drought relief package and Labor's election post-mortem
  34. Labor's election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke
  35. the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court
  36. Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here's why a ban's the only answer
  37. Remote Indigenous Australia's ecological economies give us something to build on
  38. a short, sharp history of the bayonet
  39. Labor's post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done
  40. Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home
  41. Queensland Health's history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be
  42. Australia's drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point
  43. Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist
  44. Labor's election post-mortem warns against 'becoming a grievance-based organisation'
  45. This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness
  46. Abusing a robot won't hurt it, but it could make you a crueller person
  47. Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany is still working to meet east with west
  48. Australian unis' financial strife in three charts
  49. Scientists looked at sea levels 125,000 years in the past. The results are terrifying
  50. men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women

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