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Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities' social cohesion

  • Written by: Amanda Wise, Associate professor, Macquarie University
Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities' social cohesionA group of young Asian men play basketball in the evening at Prince Alfred Park, Sydney. icsnaps/Shutterstock

This is the first article in our new series, Cities for Everyone, which explores how members of different communities experience and shape our cities, and how we can create better public spaces for everyone.


Park soccer, social cricket and...

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In the debate about Australian content on TV, we need to look further than the ABC

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
In the debate about Australian content on TV, we need to look further than the ABCSean Keenan in Australian sci-fi drama Glitch. The show's second season was a co-production between ABC TV and Netflix.ABC TV/IMDB

One of the main functions of the media is to tell a society’s collective story, both to the society itself and to others.

People instinctively grasp the importance of this, and an established way of assessing how...

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Why does ice make a cracking sound when water is poured on it?

  • Written by: Daniel Southam, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University
Why does ice make a cracking sound when water is poured on it?The warming of the outside of the ice cube happens faster than the warming of the inside, causing it to crack.Mai Lam/The Conversation NY-BD-CC, CC BY-SA

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious,...

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why is it increasing and who benefits?

  • Written by: Janice Orrell, Professor of Higher Education, Flinders University
why is it increasing and who benefits?Academics who are closely aligned to professional practices in health professions, engineering, teaching and social work also value work integrated learning highly. Shutterstock

Increasingly, universities are expected to prepare students to transition into the workforce with generic graduate capabilities. These include being able to recognise and...

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  3. how to deal with aggression, tantrums and defiance
  4. Gonski review attacks Australian schooling quality and urges individualised teaching approach
  5. North and South Korea met
  6. AI can help in crime prevention, but we still need a human in charge
  7. where to find a puffer jacket that doesn't warm the Earth
  8. Michelle Grattan on the government abandoning the Medicare levy
  9. do we need company tax cuts?
  10. How injuries change our brain and how we can help it recover
  11. Why Democrats have filed a lawsuit against Russia – and what Australian politicians should learn from it
  12. Interest only loans are an economic debacle that could bust the property market
  13. how pleasure affects our brain
  14. China's recycling 'ban' throws Australia into a very messy waste crisis
  15. It's funny to name species after celebrities, but there's a serious side too
  16. Designing the compassionate city to overcome built-in biases and help us live better
  17. Friday essay: recovering a narrative of place
  18. Museum or not? The changing face of curated science, tech, art and culture
  19. Banning soldiers displaying death symbols is about the right military mindset, not political correctness
  20. Can the Turnbull government make the election all about tax?
  21. Pregnant women are at increased risk of domestic violence in all cultural groups
  22. How courts and costs are undermining ASIC and the ACCC's efforts to police misbehaving banks and businesses
  23. How 'new power' is driving journalism in the digital age
  24. Kidnapped democracy: how can citizens escape?
  25. Some women feel grief after an abortion, but there's no evidence of serious mental health issues
  26. Academics call on Facebook to make data more widely available for research
  27. Experiment shows Einstein's quantum 'spooky action' approaches the human scale
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  29. As a new defence chief comes in, Australia must focus its attention on its neighbours
  30. do we need ribbon-cutting infrastructure for jobs and growth?
  31. Where has Melbourne's political graffiti gone?
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  34. Turnbull government abandons $8.2 billion Medicare levy increase
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  36. Clarrie Combo, Mrs Brown and Aboriginal soldiers in WW2
  37. Women have been neglected by the Anzac tradition, and it's time that changed
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  40. Don't be misled: sign up for GetFacts
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  42. Labor's Newspoll lead narrows federally and in Victoria
  43. Why short 'unconscious bias' programs aren't enough to end racial harassment and discrimination
  44. A Tasmanian Requiem is a musical reckoning, and a pathway to reconciliation
  45. Gallipoli commemorations of Turkish youth tell us much about politics in Turkey
  46. As North Korea builds a season of summits, the stakes on denuclearisation remain high
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