By Hetty Roessingh, Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
It’s the time of year when parents are thinking of registering their children for kindergarten in September — a much-anticipated moment in the lives of many parents and their young ones.
The importance of early childhood education beginning in kindergarten is widely recognized across Canada. Kindergarten is publicly funded and offered in all provincial jurisdictions and territories. While the vast majority of five-year-olds across the country participate, it is not mandatory.
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By Farah N. Jan, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
Iran has emerged with its uranium enrichment knowledge intact, its stockpile buried and fresh reason to believe that only a nuclear weapon would have deterred the US-Israel attack.
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By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education, Charles Sturt University
Tom Hartley, Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
From the cringey ‘U-S-A!’ to the iconic ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, the battle for soccer’s top prize starts in the stands.
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By Robert Breunig, Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Peter Varela, Research Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Australia’s migration debate is typically framed in terms of how much to cut. But there is a smarter way to screen migrants than our current outdated system.
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By Bronwyn Milkins, Postdoctoral Researcher in Youth Trauma and Dissociation, The Kids Research Institute Australia
Hayley Jackson, Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health, The Kids Research Institute
Jeneva Ohan, Professor, Healing Kids, Healing Families, The Kids Research Institute Australia
The term is everywhere, but what does it mean? Six guiding principles can help organisations provide care without causing further harm.
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By Lisa Kervin, Professor, Early Childhood, Monash University
The latest instalment of the film franchise addresses a dilemma many parents face: what happens to playtime when children become obsessed with screens?
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By Jan Lanicek, Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW Sydney
In the renowned Holocaust documentary, Shoah (1985), former SS guard Franz Suchomel sings a song prisoners had to perform in the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. After finishing the last line, he chillingly asks the director, Claude Lanzmann: “Satisfied? That’s unique. No Jew knows that today!”
More than 30 years before, in 1945,…
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By Asma Aziz, Senior Lecturer in Power Engineering, Edith Cowan University
Yasir Arafat, Senior Research Engineer in Electric Vehicle Batteries and Battery Storage, Edith Cowan University
Residents in remote communities at the end of the power grid have long struggled with unreliable power. But change is coming
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Mayra Djibrine, May 9, 2026, in Brussels, Belgium. © Private Niger’s junta leader, Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani, signed on June 11 a decree provisionally stripping Nigerien nationality from Mariama Djibrine, a leading opposition figure living in exile. The measure is based on a 2024 order that created a national database of people suspected of terrorism.Authorities accuse Djibrine of disseminating “information likely to disturb public order, inciting revolt, and colluding with a foreign power.” The accusations come amid an escalating crackdown on dissent…
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By Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Senior Professor of Psychology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Our study found that although women complained of sleep problems more often, they slept objectively better than men on average.
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