By Hamish Clarke, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Sarah McColl-Gausden, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
Tori Reynolds, Environmental Fire Risk Analyst, School of Agriculture, The University of Melbourne
Trent Penman, Professor, The University of Melbourne
Christmas holidays are peak time for bushfires. Here’s how you can understand the predicted fire conditions, develop a fire plan and have a safe break.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Migrant workers in Qatar, October 7, 2022. © 2022 ANL/Shutterstock (Beirut) – Qatari government clients and other major businesses are failing to pay contractors on time for projects, leaving migrant workers unpaid, Human Rights Watch said today. Subcontractors and others in the supply chain are also affected and themselves shortchange workers. “Clients at the top of the Qatari contracting supply chain, including government bodies, often have impunity, leaving subcontracting businesses that employ migrant workers bearing the cost,” said Michael Page,…
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By Alexandra Hansen, Deputy Editor and Chief of Staff, The Conversation
Amanda Dunn, Politics + Society Editor, The Conversation
Judith Ireland, Education Editor, The Conversation
Matt Garrow, Editorial Web Developer, The Conversation
Twenty-nine people were injured and taken to hospital in the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.
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By Arvid O. I. Hoffmann, Professor of Marketing, University of Adelaide
David Matthews, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Adelaide
Sally Rao Hill, Associate Professor in Marketing, University of Adelaide
Ying Zou, PhD Researcher in Marketing, University of Adelaide
“Would you like to donate $2 to charity today?”
If you have been Christmas shopping this season, you probably heard this question — and potentially felt pressured to donate money in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis.
More and more stores now ask customers to donate money at the checkout. This is a practice called “checkout…
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By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
Unlike other comparable nations, specialists in Australia can charge what they like. But higher fees don’t necessarily mean better care.
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By Lee Morgenbesser, Associate Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
The ‘No Kings’ protests have been important, but smaller, more sustained acts of resistance have proven successful in other countries around the world.
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By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
In the 1930s, many foreign correspondents refused to cover Germany. Instead, George Ward Price got close to Hitler – and was rebuked by Churchill.
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By Callula Killingly, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to master and integrate multiple skills, from mapping abstract symbols to the right speech sounds to understanding what all the words mean. This is why reading is one of the first and most important things children are taught in the early years of school.
Still, many children have reading difficulties that persist into high school. According to the most recent OECD data, one in five (21%) Australian 15-year-olds had reading…
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By Livia Gerber, Postdoctoral Fellow in Genetics, CSIRO
Katharina J. Peters, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong
Lee A Rollins, Professor, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney
For more than 40 years, researchers in Shark Bay, Western Australia, have been watching the lives of a very unusual group of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus). The male dolphins in this group form one of the most complex social systems known outside of humans, complete with lifelong friendships, supportive alliances, and cooperative partnerships that shape their entire lives, including how many calves they sire.
Now, our new…
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By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide
Heat is a sprawling, epic crime thriller that profoundly shaped contemporary Hollywood action cinema. Much imitated, it has never been surpassed.
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