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Five tips to make school bookshelves more diverse and five books to get you started

  • Written by: Helen Joanne Adam, Lecturer in Literacy Education and Children's Literature, Edith Cowan University
Five tips to make school bookshelves more diverse and five books to get you startedChildren need to be able to see themselves in the books they read.Cockburn Libraries/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

A lack of diverse books is failing children from minority backgrounds. This is something that should concern all Australians.

I studied five Australian early learning settings and found less than 5% of books contained cultural diversity. My more...

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Where are the in-depth documentaries calling to account the institutions that are failing us?

  • Written by: Steve Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television, University of Melbourne
Where are the in-depth documentaries calling to account the institutions that are failing us?A still from Dennis O'Rourke's 1988 documentary Cannibal Tours. O'Rourke was part of a surge in Australian documentary making during the 1980s and 90s.Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios

There is no shortage of documentary makers out there – experienced and emerging – who are ready and willing to bring Australian stories to worldwide...

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What is Islamic dispute resolution and why is it controversial in Australia?

  • Written by: Dr Maria Bhatti, Lecturer in Law, Western Sydney University
What is Islamic dispute resolution and why is it controversial in Australia?Australian Muslims are divided on whether women will get a fair deal under Islamic dispute resolution if it is implemented here.from www.shutterstock.com

Islamic dispute resolution involves resolving disputes without going to court and is similar to alternative dispute resolution, or ADR.

But Islamic dispute resolution has been controversial....

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Morrison plays scare card on medical transfer bill

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

As the battle escalates ahead of next week’s vote on legislation to facilitate medical transfers from Manus and Nauru, Scott Morrison is playing up the dangers if the bill passes while downplaying the political implications.

Morrison declares the amendments, based on a proposal from independent Kerryn Phelps, would leave the government...

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  1. One Infinity explores tension and connection between China and the West
  2. why are burps so loud?
  3. do we really need to take 10,000 steps a day?
  4. Old bones reveal new evidence about the role of islands in penguin evolution
  5. The Treaty of Waitangi and its influence on identity politics in New Zealand
  6. What actually is populism? And why does it have a bad reputation?
  7. Whose hearts, livers and lungs are transplanted in China? Origins must be clear in human organ research
  8. Considering using IVF to have a baby? Here's what you need to know
  9. How Hayne failed remote Australia
  10. How public ineptitude and private enterprise combined to give Venezuela hyperinflation
  11. Feminist hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been stifled by a new patriarchal construct: the cinema
  12. why the physical environment is important too
  13. Is social housing essential infrastructure? How we think about it does matter
  14. the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi
  15. Why bank shares are climbing despite the royal commission
  16. we should legislate on Hayne recommendations before election
  17. Michael McCormack on banks and the bush, and the election battle
  18. The shocking use of 'jiggers' in horse racing
  19. Just So You Know...The Conversation launches a Q&A service for teens
  20. Queensland's floods are so huge the only way to track them is from space
  21. Cladding fires expose gaps in building material safety checks. Here's a solution
  22. Our 'bee-eye camera' helps us support bees, grow food and protect the environment
  23. Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result puts autism front and centre
  24. Five warning signs of overdiagnosis
  25. Hayne's failure to tackle bank structure means that in a decade or so another treasurer will have to call another royal commission
  26. Influential doctors aren't disclosing their drug company ties
  27. the real problem is how we value executives and workers
  28. Australians accept government surveillance, for now
  29. a 10-point plan to fix the residential building industry
  30. We discovered a warped and twisted disc of young, massive stars at the edge of our Milky Way
  31. There's insufficient evidence your sunscreen harms coral reefs
  32. Tarpe Mills, 1940s comic writer, and her feisty superhero Miss Fury
  33. Murray-Darling report shows public authorities must take climate change risk seriously
  34. no commissions, no exemptions, no fees without permission. Hayne gets the government to do a U-turn
  35. Compensation scheme to follow Hayne’s indictment of financial sector
  36. Changes to commenting at The Conversation
  37. New study confirms what scientists already know: basic research is under-valued
  38. Research shows most online consumer contracts are incomprehensible, but still legally binding
  39. why do we need soap?
  40. The humble spade flower moonlights as the ‘love shrub’
  41. Online trolling used to be funny, but now the term refers to something far more sinister
  42. Want to improve your mood? It's time to ditch the junk food
  43. Why the federal government’s new integrity commission isn't up to the job
  44. When extreme weather wipes out wildlife, the fallout can last for years
  45. imagine you are in Canada
  46. Six questions our banks need to answer to regain trust
  47. Three changes in how we live could derail the dream of the 30-minute city
  48. The great movie scenes: Rome, Open City
  49. Bowen fires back in economy debate
  50. McGowan remains tight-lipped about refugee legislation despite removal of children

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