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how hard is it to adopt in Australia?

  • Written by: Patricia Fronek, Senior Lecturer, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University
how hard is it to adopt in Australia?Whether barriers to adoption are always a bad thing is up for debate.shutterstock

When politicians and lobbyists call for adoption reform in Australia, they often argue adoption should be easier and quicker. Adopting a child in Australia can be difficult, but whether barriers to adoption are always a bad thing is up for debate.

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From 'good temper and pluck' to fierce international rivalry: the story of netball

  • Written by: Rochelle Eime, Associate Professor of Sport Participation, Federation University Australia

Commonwealth Games netball is effectively a proxy world championship.

In the 2018 lineup of 12 competing teams are world champs Australia (the Diamonds), world runners up New Zealand (the Silver Ferns) and the remaining teams that make up the world’s top ten ranked countries.

The Australia – New Zealand rivalry has a long history of...

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Mary Beard and the long tradition of women being told to shut up

  • Written by: Marguerite Johnson, Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle
Mary Beard and the long tradition of women being told to shut upPenelope and the Suitors, by J.W. Waterhouse (1912).Wikimedia Commons

Professor Mary Beard’s latest book Women & Power: A Manifesto is a short, sharp analysis of women in the West and their ongoing struggles for a voice in the public domain. Based on two lectures delivered in 2014 and 2017, Beard chronicles some of the major obstacles...

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ten things you didn't know about the Commonwealth

  • Written by: Kristyn Harman, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Tasmania

Britain’s territorial vastness was neatly summed up in the Victorian era by the observation that “the sun never sets on the British Empire”. For 350 years, dating from when the East India Company was founded in 1600 until after the end of the second world war, Britain’s global reach was extensive. Yet by the closing decades...

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  1. Indigenous voices are speaking loudly on social media but racism endures
  2. Five things to consider before ordering an online DNA test
  3. Esports are taking off and the Commonwealth Games needs to catch up
  4. Why suspending or expelling students often does more harm than good
  5. The abuse tactics fraudsters use to break the hearts and wallets of those looking online for love
  6. Children aren't liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them
  7. Not all vaginal implants are a problem and treating them the same puts many women at risk
  8. It's time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shadows
  9. how the rental sector is changing
  10. Body-worn cameras will help reduce police use of force, but the problem runs much deeper
  11. The Conversation has #goodnews to share
  12. Why do we keep turning a blind eye to Chinese political interference?
  13. Private collectors are saving Australian art, but they can't do it on their own
  14. The pro-coal 'Monash Forum' may do little but blacken the name of a revered Australian
  15. Why prosecutions for welfare fraud have declined in Australia
  16. Courting co-owners to buy a house online may be riskier than it looks
  17. The time it takes to learn a new language depends on what you want to do with it
  18. Our legacy of liveable cities won't last without a visionary response to growth
  19. How gold rushes helped make the modern world
  20. Can the Commonwealth Games change perceptions of the Gold Coast?
  21. Six things you can do to reduce your risk of dementia
  22. If Australia is at the bottom of the world, why are we the right way up?
  23. Formula E racing puts power in the hands of fans
  24. Greens urge a publicly-owned "People's Bank" as part of a big-government platform
  25. Barnaby Joyce criticises lack of results on power prices as winter approaches
  26. The off-topic Conversation #158
  27. Gene-based tests may improve treatment for people with bipolar disorder
  28. Defamation in the digital age has morphed into litigation between private individuals
  29. How our peers influence our superannuation decisions
  30. The Commonwealth Games are an opportunity to face up to the history of colonialism
  31. Why some migrant school students do better than their local peers (they're not 'just smarter')
  32. Why the business model of social media giants like Facebook is incompatible with human rights
  33. Disability workers are facing longer days with less pay
  34. Babylon Berlin and why our fascination with 1920s Germany reveals the anxieties of our times
  35. Public housing ban on people with drug records likely to do more harm than good, research tell us
  36. Why we made iWitnessed, an app to collect evidence
  37. what is lupus and how is stress implicated?
  38. what will New Zealand's new government bring for towns and cities?
  39. How last night's fight affects the way couples divide housework
  40. Island-hopping study shows the most likely route the first people took to Australia
  41. Five tips to help you make the most of reading to your children
  42. Drug use can have social benefits, and acknowledging this could improve rehabilitation
  43. Australia is one of the world's best places to retire, or is it?
  44. how the First Fleet got a first taste of Australia's unforgiving climate
  45. Victoria's sperm donor laws yield some surprises, but mostly happy ones
  46. In Open Cut exhibition, protest art challenges visitors to take action
  47. can two chickens hatch out of a double-yolk egg?
  48. Breaking the shackles of the national mindset in a polarised world
  49. Tim Storer – the $35 billion dollar man
  50. Australia's digital divide is not going away

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