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oral traditions show that early Māori recognised extinction

  • Written by: Priscilla Wehi, Conservation biologist, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
oral traditions show that early Māori recognised extinctionThe extinction of important animal resources such as the moa reverberated culturally for centuries after the birds' extinction.John Megahan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND

Museums throughout Aotearoa New Zealand feature displays of enormous articulated skeletons and giant eggs. The eggs are bigger than two hands put together. This is all that remains...

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Why it's time to end the policy limbo threatening Australian children's TV

  • Written by: Anna Potter, Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow, Senior Lecturer Screen and Media Studies, University of the Sunshine Coast
Why it's time to end the policy limbo threatening Australian children's TVEvie Macdonald in First Day (2017), which won a prestigious children's television award earlier this year.Epic Films

Two Australian children’s TV programs, First Day and What’s It Like To Experience a Disability?, won prestigious Prix Jeunesse awards in May. Both were commissoned by the ABC’s children’s channel ABC ME. Both...

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Climate change will reshape the world’s agricultural trade

  • Written by: Luciana Porfirio, Research Scientist, Agriculture & Food, CSIRO | Visiting fellow at the Fenner School of Enviroment & Society, CSIRO
Climate change will reshape the world’s agricultural tradeAustralia's grain exports will suffer under climate change.Alpha/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Ending world hunger is a central aspiration of modern society. To address this challenge – along with expanding agricultural land and intensifying crop yields – we rely on global agricultural trade to meet the nutritional demands of a growing world...

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To fix higher education funding, we also need to fix vocational education

  • Written by: Andrew Norton, Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
To fix higher education funding, we also need to fix vocational educationWe need a tertiary education funding system that will help get students into courses with employment opportunities at the end of them.www.shutterstock.com

Yesterday the shadow education minister, Tanya Plibersek, announced Labor plans to invest an additional A$174 million in the higher education sector if there’s a change of government at the...

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  1. Nike's courageous new ad campaign mixing racial politics with sport will be vindicated
  2. Chelsea Manning and the rise of 'big data' whistleblowing in the digital age
  3. Author Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
  4. how leadership ideologies drive anxiety in academia
  5. Young people want sex education and religion shouldn't get in the way
  6. science will lie at the heart of our decisions
  7. First Nations dancers are stepping into the void left by Australia's politicians
  8. Dementia patients' thinking ability may get worse in winter and early spring
  9. The synthetic biology revolution is now – here's what that means
  10. Morrison does about-face on age pension eligibility rising to 70
  11. Why Australia should invest in paying early childhood educators a liveable wage
  12. The new and more efficient payments system means new and more efficient payments fraud. Here's how to prepare
  13. do we have to poo every day?
  14. making progress, could do better on inequality and climate
  15. How unearthing Queensland's 'native police' camps gives us a window onto colonial violence
  16. Our urban environment doesn't only reflect poverty, it amplifies it
  17. Gender inequalities in science won't self-correct: it's time for action
  18. Judith Troeth on the Liberal party's woman problem and asylum seekers
  19. A nostalgic journey through the evolution of web design
  20. Reducing food waste can protect our health, as well as our planet's
  21. Explainer: can you copyright furniture?
  22. How will Indigenous people be compensated for lost native title rights? The High Court will soon decide
  23. with more families in apartments, such attitudes are changing
  24. How to co-parent after divorce
  25. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. Can we learn from the past in tackling witchcraft-related violence today?
  27. Introducing land rent, the ACT's excellent idea for making houses cheaper
  28. Facebook's new video 'Watch' option enters an already crowded market
  29. Minister for Women Kelly O'Dwyer says Liberals were "subject to threats" in leadership battle
  30. To whack the CFMMEU, Morrison needs first to get the right stick
  31. What is fake honey and why didn’t the official tests pick it up?
  32. When I met James Mirrlees, perhaps the word's greatest tax theorist
  33. Should writers only write what they know? What I learned from my research
  34. how has it come to this in Western democracies?
  35. Political leadership cannot be disentangled from collective psychology
  36. law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging us
  37. what are nightshade vegetables and are they bad for you?
  38. Labor to propose new measures to put downward pressure on gas prices
  39. Dismissed under Mussolini, later Nobel prize winner – the importance of scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini
  40. Why splitting the energy and climate portfolios makes sense
  41. Five of the scariest antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the past five years
  42. A new project shows combining childcare and aged care has social and economic benefits
  43. The great movie scenes: Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
  44. World politics explainer: The Great War (WWI)
  45. Full response from Mathias Cormann for a FactCheck on corporate tax cuts and the US economy
  46. have the Trump tax cuts led to lower unemployment and higher wages?
  47. Look up Australia, cable cars could ease our traffic woes
  48. Party leaders need to address federal parliament's intolerable workplace culture: Phelps
  49. How Australia can fix the market for plasma and save millions
  50. Australian universities to benefit in Australia-Indonesia free trade deal

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