By Jordana Hunter, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
Amy Haywood, Deputy Director, Education Program, Grattan Institute
Molly Chapman, Associate, Education Program, Grattan Institute
A new report details how student absences are changing post-pandemic. It also shows how Australia can look to England for ideas on what to do.
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By Catherine Smith, Senior Lecturer of Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne
Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
A new survey shows parents and carers have strong ideas about how a program for kids with disability could be designed.
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By Ben Walker, Senior Lecturer (Organisational Behaviour), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Nimbus A. Staniland, Senior Lecturer (Management and International Business), University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
For some Indigenous peoples around the world, a day at work can mean experiencing repression, racism and regular reminders that we’re minorities in our own lands. Yet for others, work can be experienced as the exact opposite, as something that enables ourselves, our families and our communities to prosper.
What factors shape whether Indigenous employees experience their work as a source of strain or support? We’ve spent the past few years trying to answer this question by analysing as many studies of Indigenous…
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By Ray Laurence, Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University
Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It’s among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many structures built by the Romans still survive, in some form, thanks to their ingenious concrete and construction techniques.
However, there’s a lot we still don’t understand about exactly how the Romans made such strong concrete or built all those impressive buildings, houses, public baths, bridges and roads.
Scholars have long yearned for more physical evidence from Roman worksites to provide clues.
Now, a new…
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By Kat Nelligan, Lecturer in Music Industry, RMIT University
After a decade dabbling in different genres, Gaga’s return to gothic synth-pop reminds us why she became an icon in the first place.
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By Rachael Mead, Fellow, J.M. Coetzee Centre, University of Adelaide
In two thrilling new fictional riffs on Greek myth, Natalie Haynes and Zoe Terakes interrogate ancient stories of heroism and desire.
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By Amnesty International
A year after the enforced disappearance of Steven Medina, Nehemías Arboleda, Josué Arroyo and Ismael Arroyo, their relatives continue to demand justice, truth and reparation. The “four children from Las Malvinas”, as they have become publicly known, were detained on8 December 2024 by members of the armed forces during a security operation in the Las Malvinas community in the city of Guayaquil. Their bodies were found on 24 December 2024 near a military base […] The post Ecuador: A year without justice for the four children from Las Malvinas appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Jasem al-Shamsi. © Private (Beirut) –The detention of an Emirati dissident in Syria raises serious concerns that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will pressure Syrian authorities to extradite him, Human Rights Watch said today. An informed source told Human Rights Watch that Syrian authorities detained Jasem al-Shamsi, 55, at a checkpoint in the Damascus countryside on November 6, 2025, and have held him since without disclosing the legal basis for his detention. The UAE has pressed Lebanon and Jordan to return dissidents in recent years. If returned, al-Shamsi…
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By Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
When Sabrina Carpenter’s provocative 2024 pop single “Bed Chem” plays on the radio, and I hear the lyrics
“But I bet we’d have really good bed chem / How you pick me up, pull ‘em down, turn me 'round / Oh, it just makes sense / How you talk so sweet when you’re doing bad things”
it reminds me of a song released 45 years earlier:
“Let’s take a shower, said a shower together, yes / I’ll wash your body and you’ll wash mine, yeah / Rub me…
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By Lacey W. Heinsberg, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
Amery Treble-Barna, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh
Some children recover better after traumatic brain injury than others, despite appearing similarly to doctors. Looking at the genetic and cellular level, however, reveal key differences.
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