Educational
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How Emily Wilson Made Homer Modern
Some three millennia ago, a blind bard whose name in ancient Greek means “hostage” is said to have composed two…
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Adelaide school celebrates Aboriginal and Greek bond on NAIDOC Week (video)
Teachers and students of Prospect Primary School in Adelaide composed an Aboriginal-Greek fusion song and created a video in dedication…
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Why Universities Should Be More Like Monasteries
When she registered last fall for the seminar known around campus as the monk class, she wasn’t sure what to…
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Why reading books is good for society, wellbeing and your career
An Instagram video can be up to 90 seconds, but experts reckon the ideal time to maximise engagement is less than…
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Judges go bush to learn about Indigenous culture, with aim to deliver fairer justice in courts
David Newry Nyoongoong is an accomplished Aboriginal elder, but he still remembers the day he was a skinny, scared 16-year-old…
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Grace under fire
Grace Tame raised her voice and started a revolution that would change the national conversation. Greg Hassall and Winsome Denyer…
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Principals and teachers are vital to success for refugee families
As the American withdrawal from Afghanistan culminated in the tragic scenes at the Kabul airport in late August, Australians were…
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#4 For Aboriginal justice, we need more than words – with VALS (Lee-Anne and Andreea)
Andreea and Lee-Anne educate us on the lived experience of law, justice and injustice for Aboriginal people in Victoria. Our…
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Free speech doesn’t mean you can say whatever you want, wherever. Here’s how to explain this to kids
Many protesters hold right-wing and extremist views. Authors : The Conversation Police say people have been arrested for breaching the…
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Prisoners of Time by Christopher Clark review – bravura examination of political power
An acclaimed historian teases out the truth to exhilarating effect Andrew Antony The Guardian he Australian historian and Regius professor…
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Growing up with trees: new books use story and science to connect kids with nature
But it really means I spend a lot of time thinking and finding out about people’s relationships with the natural…
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Life goes on at Chernobyl 35 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident
Radioactive particles can be sandblasted from the surface of metal to decontaminate it and prepare it for resale. The money…
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The Erasmus Perfidy
With all the deception, delusions and lies that the post-2016 Brexit era has normalized it should not really have come…
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What is cultural burning?
How do Aboriginal experts use fire to care for their land? Miki Perkins Brisbane Times Acool, gentle, creeping fire came…
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Not a day passes without thinking about race: what African migrants told us about parenting in Australia
Our study, published in the journal Child and Family Social Work, found it complicates parenting in ways that non-Black parents…
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How to talk to toddlers and young children about racism
Perhaps you tell your kids “we don’t see race” or “we’re all the same human race”. ABC According to experts,…
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