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If you think less immigration will solve Australia's problems, you're wrong; but neither will more

  • Written by: Cameron Allen, Researcher, UNSW
If you think less immigration will solve Australia's problems, you're wrong; but neither will moreMore by luck than design, recent recent levels of immigration seem to be in a 'goldilocks zone' that balances economic, social and environmental objectives.www.shutterstock.com

Are we letting too many or too few migrants into Australia?

For 2019-20 the Australian government has cut the annual net migrant intake from 190,000 to 160,000. It’s a...

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Let them play! Kids need freedom from play restrictions to develop

  • Written by: Brendon Hyndman, Senior Lecturer and Course Director (Postgraduate Education courses), Charles Sturt University
Let them play! Kids need freedom from play restrictions to developPlaying in nature improves children's learning, social and emotional skills.MI PHAM/unsplash

You may have heard of play. It’s that thing children do – the diverse range of unstructured, spontaneous activities and behaviours.

Children play in many ways, including by exploring movements, constructing with equipment, creating games, using...

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the tall buildings of Australia show why we need strong design guidelines

  • Written by: Timothy Moore, PhD Candidate, Melbourne School of Design, Monash University
the tall buildings of Australia show why we need strong design guidelinesTowering canyons of concrete and glass are an increasingly dominant feature of fast-growing cities like Melbourne.ymgerman/Shutterstock

Private enterprise has shaped the skylines of Australia’s cities, and the names of their highest towers reflect this. The towers of Sydney shout finance: Deutsche Bank, MLC, Ernst & Young, ANZ, Suncorp....

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  1. How the dangerous evolution of Pakistan’s national security state threatens domestic stability
  2. Gamers use machine learning to navigate complex video games – but it's not free
  3. Shocked Labor moves on – but to what policy destination?
  4. Narendra Modi has won the largest election in the world. What will this mean for India?
  5. the ABC of screenwriting as demonstrated by ABC's The Heights
  6. hope and action in the climate crisis
  7. Australia has been silent on Indigenous suicide for too long, and it must change
  8. Albanese gets clear run to leadership
  9. Blocking Huawei from Australia means slower and delayed 5G – and for what?
  10. Newspoll probably wrong since Morrison became PM; polling has been less accurate at recent elections
  11. how was the Earth made?
  12. Five aspects of Pentecostalism that shed light on Scott Morrison's politics
  13. How we solved the mystery of Libyan desert glass
  14. Where to now for unions and 'change the rules'?
  15. Eastern China pinpointed as source of rogue ozone-depleting emissions
  16. Why the 2019 election was more like 2004 than 1993 – and Labor has some reason to hope
  17. Rethinking tourism so the locals actually benefit from hosting visitors
  18. Aboriginal Australians want care after brain injury. But it must consider their cultural needs
  19. Wind in Albanese's sails as Chalmers weighs options
  20. With the LNP returned to power, is there anything left in Adani's way?
  21. New data shows sex offenders in Victoria are going to prison for longer
  22. don't judge, try to understand us
  23. In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are making their voices heard
  24. Sex trafficking's tragic paradox: when victims become perpetrators
  25. Charging the Christchurch mosque attacker with terrorism could be risky – but it's important
  26. Cutting interest rates is just the start. It's about to become much, much easier to borrow
  27. 2019 federal election showed Australian media need better regulation
  28. Aboriginal mothers are incarcerated at alarming rates – and their mental and physical health suffers
  29. From sharks in seagrass to manatees in mangroves, we've found large marine species in some surprising places
  30. some Western Australian reefs have the lowest coral cover on record
  31. 3 lessons from behavioural economics Bill Shorten's Labor Party forgot about
  32. The 'pulse' of a volcano can be used to help predict its next eruption
  33. Ennigaldi-Nanna, curator of the world's first museum
  34. How close is Sydney to the vision of creating three 30-minute cities?
  35. Queensland paper backtracks after using violent imagery to depict Annastacia Palaszczuk
  36. Bowen carries baggage into Labor leadership contest
  37. US-China relations are certainly at a low point, but this is not the next Cold War
  38. Here's how to make opinion polls more representative and honest
  39. After Clive Palmer's $60 million campaign, limits on political advertising are more important than ever
  40. Teenagers need our support, not criticism, as they navigate life online
  41. Rockabul, a tale of a metal band in Kabul, reinvigorates the radical spirit of rock 'n' roll
  42. why do we lose our baby teeth?
  43. Curious Kids: why do we sigh?
  44. After 8 years of memes, videos and role playing, what now for Game of Thrones' multimedia fans?
  45. Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change
  46. Going up. Monday showed what the market thinks of Morrison
  47. Queensland and Tasmania win it for the Coalition
  48. 'Do no harm' isn't enough. Why the banking royal commission will ultimately achieve little
  49. Some of our foods have nano particles in them – should we be worried?
  50. First-year uni can add 4kg to your weight. Here's how universities can scale that back

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