By Phiwe Babalo Nota, Researcher, Children's Institute, University of Cape Town
Wiedaad Slemming, Director, Children's Insitute, University of Cape Town
Exposure to violence during the first 1,000 days (from conception to the age of 2 years) has lifelong consequences for children’s health and development.
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By Amrit Sufi
Citizen archivists are preserving South Asia’s oral traditions — folk songs, riddles, and histories — by recording, uploading, and transcribing them on Wikimedia platforms, challenging text-centric knowledge systems and reviving marginalized voices.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A charred T-72 tank lay on the road that connects Shiraro to Shire in Ethiopia's Tigray region, October 12, 2024. © 2024 Michele Spatari/AFP via Getty Images The fragile truce largely insulating civilians in northern Ethiopia from war crimes and other abuses may be unraveling. With many countries focused elsewhere, it is increasingly important that influential governments mobilize swiftly to prevent a resurgence of atrocities in the northern Tigray region that could spread further.In recent weeks, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed accused the Tigray region’s ruling…
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By Sandra de Souza Hacon, Doutora em Geociências, mestre em Poluição Ambiental e responsável pelos cursos de pós-graduação da Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)
Droughts, outbreaks and violence: Environmental health expert explains why there is no human well-being without a healthy environment, and the climate changes’ impact on that
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By Jian Liang, Senior Lecturer in Property Economics, Queensland University of Technology
New laws set to be introduced next year will require Victorian real estate agents to publish a property’s genuine reserve price at least a week before auction.
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By Kirk Dodd, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
Since its first performance in 1606, King Lear has earned its place as Shakespeare’s largest and most revered powerhouse tragedy.
The story follows an elderly King Lear (played in Belvoir’s new production by Colin Friels) who divides his kingdom among his three daughters according to their declared love. But he ends up rewarding his deceitful daughters Goneril (Charlotte Friels) and Regan (Jana Zvedeniuk) with powerful estates, while banishing his honest daughter Cordelia (Ahunim Abebe) for speaking plainly.
As Lear is betrayed by Goneril and Regan, his fragile mental…
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By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
Unapologetically Ita sketches the public life of a person who gets things done. An account of her career as a journalist, however, is a job for another author.
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By Tijl Grootswagers, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
Daniel Feuerriegel, ARC DECRA Fellow and Head of the Prediction and Decision-Making Lab, The University of Melbourne
Black Friday is a psychological event, carefully designed to take advantage of how your brain makes decisions. But you can stay one step ahead this sales season.
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By Daniel Angus, Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
If you’re a young person in Australia, you probably know new social media rules are coming in December. If you and your friends are under 16, you might be locked out of the social media spaces you use every day.
Some people call these rules a social media ban for under 16s. Others say it’s not a “ban” – just a…
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By Jaimie Veale, Senior Lecturer in Psychology; Director, Transgender Health Research Lab, University of Waikato
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
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