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A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic

  • Written by: Christopher Wallace-Crabbe, Emeritus Professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemicKenrick Mills/Unsplash

Why do we have the arts? Why do they seem to matter so much? It is all very well muttering something vague about eternal truths and spiritual values. Or even gesturing toward Bach and Leonardo da Vinci, along with our own Patrick White.

But what can the poets make of, and for, our busy, present lives? What do they have to...

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The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into place

  • Written by: Tim Harcourt, J.W. Nevile Fellow in Economics and host of The Airport Economist, UNSW
The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into placeShutterstock

Australia won’t be the same post-coronavirus, but parts of the picture are falling into place.

One concerns our approach to trade. It’ll be a reset, not a rejection.

We will continue to forge strong ties in the Asian Century with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand...

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how to count like a bee

  • Written by: Scarlett Howard, Postdoctoral research fellow, Deakin University

If you were a honeybee, how would you choose where to find flowers? Imagine your first flight out of the hive searching for food. What would you do if you saw flower patches with one flower, or three, or twelve, or twenty?

Our new study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, tested honeybees on exactly this question. We wanted to...

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Don't want to send the kids back to school? Why not try unschooling at home

  • Written by: Rebecca English, Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
Don't want to send the kids back to school? Why not try unschooling at homebokan/Shutterstock

As schools resume for most Australian students, a new group of parents have emerged.

These parents have decided to give home education a longer term try, finding their children have improved academically and benefited from the calmer home learning environment.

This change may mean some families move to a more child-led way of...

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  1. Thanks to The Conversation's authors, for going above and beyond
  2. Recession hits Māori and Pasifika harder. They must be part of planning New Zealand's COVID-19 recovery
  3. Australia doesn't need more anti-terror laws that aren't necessary – or even used
  4. why we need to focus on increased consumption as much as population growth
  5. China used anti-dumping rules against us because what goes around comes around
  6. Australia must outperform to come out even from COVID-19
  7. Before epidemiologists began modelling disease, it was the job of astrologers
  8. Be worried when fossil fuel lobbyists support current environmental laws
  9. Why is the Australian government letting universities suffer?
  10. Democracy 2025 - Political trust in times of COVID-19 with Michelle Grattan, Mark Evans, Peter Shergold, and Renée Leon
  11. Could blood thinners be a lifesaving treatment for COVID-19? Here's what the science says and what it means for you
  12. These young Queenslanders are taking on Clive Palmer's coal company and making history for human rights
  13. Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on it
  14. Coronavirus anti-vaxxers aren’t a huge threat yet. How do we keep it that way?
  15. how history might read Morrison's coronavirus leadership
  16. Fang Fang's Wuhan diaries are a personal account of shared memory
  17. Is another huge and costly road project really Sydney's best option right now?
  18. The big stimulus spending has just begun. Here's how to get it right, quickly
  19. Are New Zealand's new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state?
  20. Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own
  21. View from The Hill: Bill Kelty's five-point plan for coming out of COVID
  22. the tertiary education union's deal with universities explained
  23. it's hard to say if the COVIDSafe app can overcome its shortcomings
  24. Coalition gains Newspoll lead as Labor ahead in Eden-Monaro; Trump's ratings recover
  25. what Virgin Australia staff can learn from ex-Ansett workers
  26. Forget work-life balance – it's all about integration in the age of COVID-19
  27. International film archives are streaming up a storm during lockdown. Australia's movie trove isn't even online
  28. Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
  29. Economists back social distancing 34-9 in new Economic Society-Conversation survey
  30. Self-employed Australians' hours have fallen 32% since coronavirus hit – double the impact on all employees
  31. Just how hot will it get this century? Latest climate models suggest it could be worse than we thought
  32. Supermarkets claim to have our health at heart. But their marketing tactics push junk foods
  33. The trade-offs 'smart city' apps like COVIDSafe ask us to make go well beyond privacy
  34. The 'hospital in the home' revolution has been stalled by COVID-19. But it's still a good idea
  35. Experts are back in fashion – now more than ever we need to question them
  36. Trust in quality news outlets strong during coronavirus pandemic
  37. The government will spend $48 million to safeguard mental health. Extending JobKeeper would safeguard it even more
  38. Yes, we need a global coronavirus inquiry, but not for petty political point-scoring
  39. The costs of the shutdown are overestimated -- they're outweighed by its $1 trillion benefit
  40. Two refs are better than one, so why does the NRL want to drop one?
  41. The positives and negatives of mass testing for coronavirus
  42. 70% of people surveyed said they'd download a coronavirus app. Only 44% did. Why the gap?
  43. why astronomy matters in times of crisis
  44. reasons to get with online choirs
  45. Michelle Grattan on the climb down the mountain, unemployment and Jobkeeper, as well as Anthony Albanese's 'vision statement'
  46. More than 70% of academics at some universities are casuals. They're losing work and are cut out of JobKeeper
  47. 'Best of' sport lists are filling the live sport vacuum, but women take the sidelines once again
  48. New Zealand's COVID-19 budget delivers on one crisis, but largely leaves climate change for another day
  49. voices from the bush – how lockdown affects remote Indigenous communities differently
  50. new research to map violence in the forgotten conflict in West Papua

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