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in Denmark it is a term of affection

  • Written by: Andrew Scott, Professor of Politics and Policy, Deakin University
in Denmark it is a term of affectionSkat was the name of the Danish tax agency. It's also a term of affection.Shutterstock

In Denmark, you might walk in the door and call out for your “skat” or your “treasure” as a greeting to your family.

This is common according to Denmark’s Ambassador to Australia, who launched the Nordic Policy Centre last month, a...

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Don't worry, a school library with fewer books and more technology is good for today's students

  • Written by: Elizabeth Tait, Lecturer in Information Management, RMIT University
Don't worry, a school library with fewer books and more technology is good for today's studentsSchool libraries are no longer just places where books are stored.from shutterstock.com

A recent article about a new approach to a school library sparked vigorous discussion on social media. Many worried the school had completely abolished traditional library services. The article describes how a Melbourne school changed its library to a...

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Government's population plan is more about maximising 'win-wins' than cutting numbers

  • Written by: Nick Parr, Professor and Demographer, Macquarie University

The Morrison government’s new population plan will have little effect on Australian population growth. Appropriately, it looks to reduce the concentration of this growth in our biggest cities and to raise the benefit-to-cost ratio of population change more broadly.

Australia’s population is growing at five times the average rate for...

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TikTok is popular, but Chinese apps still have a lot to learn about global markets

  • Written by: Xu Chen, PhD candidate; sessional academic, Queensland University of Technology
TikTok is popular, but Chinese apps still have a lot to learn about global marketsTikTok is a music and video sharing app – and it's huge. Denys Prykhodov/Shutterstock

If Twitter is the revolutionary version of blogging, TikTok might be the revolutionary version of YouTube. Both Twitter and TikTok encourage their users to post shorter, more fragmented content than their precursors.

TikTok, owned by the Chinese tech giant...

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  2. Erdogan tried to make local Turkish elections about national security, but it didn't work
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  4. India destroys its own satellite with a test missile, still says space is for peace
  5. what should our maximum heart rate be during exercise?
  6. How to get ready as the US-China trade war spills over to other countries
  7. was he an environmentalist ahead of his time?
  8. Migrants want to live in the big cities, just like the rest of us
  9. Who do Chinese-Australian voters trust for their political news on WeChat?
  10. why do we have fingernails and toenails?
  11. How DNA ancestry testing can change our ideas of who we are
  12. Bleaching has struck the southernmost coral reef in the world
  13. It's time to lift the restrictions on medical abortion in Australia
  14. Expect a budget that breaks the intergenerational bargain, like the one before it, and before that
  15. the rise and fall of the bad-tempered tabloids
  16. If we want students to feel safe at school, we can't encourage teachers to spot potential extremists
  17. how a 15th century artist dissected the human machine
  18. Settling migrants in regional areas will need more than a visa to succeed
  19. Shorten's climate policy would hit more big polluters harder and set electric car target
  20. Labor flags another budget in August as Frydenberg says his contains "a series" of living cost measures
  21. Why are we losing so many Indigenous children to suicide?
  22. Hannah Gadsby's follow-up to Nanette is an act of considered self-care
  23. Why we need to fix encryption laws the tech sector says threaten Australian jobs
  24. The government's electricity shortlist rightly features pumped hydro (and wrongly includes coal)
  25. Old man's beard is a star climber for Australian gardens
  26. The false hope offered by talk of a living wage
  27. Michelle Grattan on One Nation's NRA affair and the Morrison's coal offering
  28. what does it all mean for the 2019 federal election?
  29. The challenge of drawing a line between objectionable material and freedom of expression online
  30. The AFL and its clubs must continue to expose and sanction online trolls, it’s the law
  31. Christchurch attacks strike at the heart of Muslims' safe places from Islamophobia
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  35. Bad news. Closing coal-fired power stations costs jobs. We need to prepare
  36. what are Confucius Institutes and do they teach Chinese propaganda?
  37. Friday essay: shadows on the Moon
  38. Scott Morrison struggles to straddle the south-north divide
  39. How big tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability
  40. NZ's environmental watchdog challenges climate policy on farm emissions and forestry offsets
  41. Labor pledges $14m funding boost to Environmental Defenders Offices – what do these services do?
  42. Kate Mulvany's The Mares bristles with energetic feminist storytelling
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