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Start resetting your kids' body clocks before daylight saving ends – here's how

  • Written by: Jon Quach, Postdoctoral researcher in child community health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Start resetting your kids' body clocks before daylight saving ends – here's howChildren need different amounts of sleep but should aim to wake feeling rested, without an alarm.Juninatt/shutterstock

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday morning, signalling an end to summer. It’s also a period of disruption for children and their parents as they adjust to the new time.

Although an hour doesn’t seem like a big jump,...

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Australia would be better if we'd heeded Pauline Hanson's message more: Tony Abbott

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

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has said that if people had been more willing to heed the message of those like Pauline Hanson over the last two decades, “we would be a better country today”.

In a speech loaded with praise for the controversial One Nation leader, Abbott described her as “a remarkable and a resilient presence in...

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Rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment: what’s the difference?

  • Written by: Nicola Henry, Associate Professor & Vice-Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University
Rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment: what’s the difference?It's important to define acts of sexual violence separately to punish perpetrators appropriately.from shutterstock.com

The #MeToo movement has supported victim-survivors to speak out about a wide range of acts that constitute sexual violence. Reports have included those of rape, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, sexual coercion, sexual...

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What governments can learn from Perth's property market

  • Written by: Greg Costello, Associate Professor, Curtin University
What governments can learn from Perth's property marketThe report examined housing affordability in Perth through individual transaction records over a six year sample period.shutterstock

Governments can encourage more affordable housing by targeting first home buyer subsidies to specific locations and housing types, a new report finds. It also suggests incentivising developers and builders to create...

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  1. Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits as your own
  2. Australia expels two Russian spies as part of international push against Russia
  3. Climate policy is a fiendish problem for governments – time for an independent authority with real powers
  4. Why Australians need a national environment protection agency to safeguard their health
  5. Men and young people more likely to be ageist: study
  6. Kids with autism less likely to be fully vaccinated
  7. Darwin's paying the price after Cyclone Marcus
  8. when religious freedom and LGBTI rights intersect
  9. Lisa Reihana's Emissaries is a vital retelling of colonial history
  10. how elite schools are struggling with the pressure to excel
  11. Pensioners would retain cash refunds on franked dividends under Labor backdown
  12. Why China is a leader in intellectual property (and what the US has to do with it)
  13. We're still playing catch up with academia's longstanding #MeToo sexual harassment problem
  14. The day Australian cricket lost its integrity and a country reacted with shock and anger
  15. How birth interventions affect babies' health in the short and long term
  16. Future 'ocean cities' need green engineering above and below the waterline
  17. Full response from a spokesperson for Paul Fletcher for a FactCheck on electricity prices and renewable energy policy
  18. are South Australia's high electricity prices 'the consequence' of renewable energy policy?
  19. Australia should steer clear of the sanction fight between the US and China
  20. satirist Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin
  21. Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin reveals the anxieties of team Putin
  22. why ball tampering is cheating
  23. The off-topic Conversation #157
  24. how some NZ brands are shortchanging domestic customers
  25. Coalition trails 47-53% in 29th consecutive Newspoll loss
  26. Should lab-grown meat be labelled as meat when it's available for sale?
  27. You're paying too much for electricity, but here's what the states can do about it
  28. Sexual harassment is too much – and not enough – about sex
  29. Is it true that male seahorses give birth?
  30. Low attendance in Year 7 may mean you're less likely to finish school
  31. Your asthma puffer is probably contributing to climate change, but there's a better alternative
  32. Is it a surprise women aren't keen on investing when the stock market language is so male oriented?
  33. what are authorities so afraid of?
  34. Vikings exhibit hangs up the sword, and gives us a welcome insight into domestic life
  35. Some 'bloody' rocket science gives Pacific Rim Uprising an extra lift
  36. Michelle Grattan on musical chairs in the Senate
  37. Not getting a social licence to operate can be a costly mistake, as coal seam gas firms have found
  38. My Favourite Album: Dead Letter Circus’s Aesthesis
  39. Post-truth politics and why the antidote isn't simply 'fact-checking' and truth
  40. Google and Facebook cosy up to media companies in response to the threat of regulation
  41. Native forest protections are deeply flawed, yet may be in place for another 20 years
  42. The way banks are organised makes it hard to hold directors and executives criminally responsible
  43. why our complexion is so important to us
  44. How lowering the voting age to 16 could save democracy
  45. if you really, truly need a new phone, buy one with replaceable parts
  46. New Queensland planning law puts transparency and accountability at risk
  47. Are the major parties on the nose and minors on the march? It's not that simple
  48. Email culture to blame for workplace failure on #MeToo
  49. My dyslexic perspective on academia – and how I found science communication
  50. why early childhood educators are walking out

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How to Rent a Car for Uber in Melbourne: What Every New Driver Needs to Know

Starting out as an Uber driver in Melbourne is not as complicated as it sounds but getting the vehicle right is where most new drivers get stuck. Uber has strict requirements around vehicle age, condi...

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When Should You Speak to a Lawyer About a Legal Issue?

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