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Kids learn valuable life skills through rough-and-tumble play with their dads

  • Written by: Emily Freeman, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Newcastle
Kids learn valuable life skills through rough-and-tumble play with their dadsDads tend to engage in more active, physical play activities with their young children.Shutterstock/pyrozhenka

Play is an important way for children to learn about the world around them.

Through play, they learn cultural norms, socialisation guidelines and experiment with different ways to interact with their environment.

But play between a father...

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what exactly do musical conductors do?

  • Written by: Warwick Potter, Lecturer in Conducting, The University of Queensland
what exactly do musical conductors do?The conductor's role is to communicate with the performers and their audience. Their role is part artistic, part mathematical.Shutterstock

Conductors are a relatively new breed of musician. Only as compositions became more complex circa 1810 (blame Beethoven!) did the actual need for a conductor become more relevant. Conductors were in demand...

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Thinking of seeing a psychologist? Here's how to choose the therapy best for you

  • Written by: Timothy Carey, Professor, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University
Thinking of seeing a psychologist? Here's how to choose the therapy best for youIt's important to find a psychologist you connect with and who seems to understand you.Priscilla Du Preez

In any year, one in five Australians will experience symptoms of a mental illness.

While drug treatments are widely used and can be effective, they sometimes come with troubling side-effects such as weight gain, headaches, and fatigue.

Talking...

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Indigenous people no longer have the legal right to say no to the Adani mine

  • Written by: Dominic O'Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University

Last week, the Queensland government extinguished native title over tracts of land in the Galilee Basin so the Adani coal mine could proceed.

This gives Adani freehold title to the land, and means the Wangan and Jagalingou native title holders’ objections no longer have the same legal significance.

But they do have moral significance, and...

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  2. Outgoing ASIO head hopes for greater public preparedness to defend Australian sovereignty
  3. Why we've the weakest economy since the global financial crisis, with few clear ways out
  4. Agriculture a likely stumbling block in free trade negotiations between NZ and EU
  5. why are some people affected by sleep paralysis?
  6. where it hit, where it's headed, and why it's so destructive
  7. why are so many musicals adapted from movies?
  8. Health and sustainability market could be worth $25 billion to Australian producers by 2030
  9. Yes, you can hold an Australian passport but not be a citizen – here's how
  10. this sea snake gathers oxygen through its forehead
  11. Nice try Mr Taylor, but Australia's gas exports don't help solve climate change
  12. why your backyard lawn doesn't help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
  13. there's little evidence PFAS exposure harms our health
  14. the year's best photos of landscapes and living things
  15. people in their 90s are Australia's fastest growing senior age group
  16. how new tech could allow effective, sustainable land sharing
  17. After 44 years of deficits, we've a current account surplus. What went so right?
  18. Morrison and Dutton block their ears and grit their teeth over Tamil family
  19. We don't know menopausal hormone therapy causes breast cancer, but the evidence continues to suggest a link
  20. why the New Zealand government needs to act cautiously but quickly
  21. Maxine Peake brings warmth and likeability to raw, bitter pain in a candid tale of IVF failure
  22. 3 ways to help sex offenders safely reintegrate back into the community
  23. In the Democrats' bitter race to find a candidate to beat Trump, might Elizabeth Warren hold the key?
  24. IVF changes babies' genes but these differences disappear by adulthood
  25. it starts out OK, but goes downhill pretty quickly
  26. Not so bad. Most of us who work long hours like the jobs we are in. Those who don't, change jobs quickly
  27. how to love a concrete beast
  28. What it takes to navigate cultural differences in a global business world
  29. Bali's Green School inspires a global renaissance
  30. Victorians who switched energy retailers only save $45 a year – leaving hundreds on the table
  31. The Great Barrier Reef outlook is 'very poor'. We have one last chance to save it
  32. 'Lock-on devices' are a symbol of non-violent protest, but they might soon be banned in Queensland
  33. How clean is your hospital room? To reduce the spread of infections, it could probably be cleaner
  34. Time to make fast fashion a problem for its makers, not charities
  35. Grim fire season looms but many Australians remain unprepared
  36. New research shows vast majority of Hong Kong protesters support more radical tactics
  37. Australia has a paracetamol poisoning problem. This is what we should be doing to reduce harm
  38. Flexible working, the neglected congestion-busting solution for our cities
  39. Young people are quoted in only 1% of news stories that affect them. No wonder so few trust the media
  40. How to get people to eat bugs and drink sewage
  41. Waratah is an icon of the Aussie bush (and very nearly our national emblem)
  42. Graduates beware, don't fall for that unpaid job advert
  43. Religious Discrimination Bill is a mess that risks privileging people of faith above all others
  44. increasing the 'daddy quota' in parental leave makes everyone happier
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