Australasia
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Videos won’t kill the uni lecture, but they will improve student learning and their marks
To do this, academics have been choosing between two approaches: live videoconferencing using tools such as Zoom, or pre-recording videos…
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When English becomes the global language of education we risk losing other – often better – ways of learning
“Hear more English, speak more English and become more successful” has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Authors The Conversation Some say…
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Hannah Clarke’s domestic violence murder highlighted coercive control — but has anything changed?
After their horrific deaths, mounting evidence suggested Ms Clarke and her children had suffered a long history of psychological abuse…
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A city divided: COVID-19 finds a weakness in Melbourne’s social fault lines
In a pandemic, when some of the sheets and pillowslips come from hospitals and aged care centres where COVID-19 is…
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Guns v giving: the trend that says everything about our priorities
We’ve always spent more on arms than aid, of course. Matt Wade The Sydney Morning Herald But the amount allocated…
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Australia Bay Seafoods loses export licence amid legal fight with NT Government
Australia Bay Seafoods (ABS) is taking the Government to court over plans to merge two fisheries, claiming there is no…
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‘He looked so sad’: the new mum who welcomed a refugee into her home
When yoga teacher Natalie Le Sueur, 49, read of his plight, she welcomed him into her home and family. Susan…
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‘No one is truly there to help’: why so little is known about the reasons people go missing
Mary, who has gone missing four times in the last few years, responded, I just wanted someone to ask if…
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Peter Dutton confirms Australia could spy on its own citizens under cybersecurity plan
Peter Dutton has confirmed the government’s $1.6bn cyberstrategy will include capability for the Australian Signals Directorate to help law enforcement…
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Two weeks of mandatory masks, but a record 725 new cases: why are Melbourne’s COVID-19 numbers so stubbornly high?
Yet Premier Daniel Andrews yesterday announced another grim milestone in Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19 infections: 725 new cases, a…
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Here’s an idea for politicians and their staff: Stop the slogans
One piece of drivel spawned by this plague is “Staying apart keeps us together”. Chris Uhlmann The Age It features…
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Remote interpreting services are essential for people with limited English — during COVID-19 and beyond
When they’re receiving health care, it’s essential these Australians have access to interpreters. Authors The Conversation Research has shown professional…
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Is now the right time for Australia to have a Bill of Rights?
Compensation lawyer and principal of Travis Schultz & Partners, Travis Schultz, said the COVID-19 crisis has shone a spotlight on…
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‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education
Prior to the state’s premier Daniel Andrews announcing a tightening of restrictions over the weekend, only students in prep to…
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What does Victoria’s lockdown mean for courts?
The latest directions from Victoria’s chief health officer mean that anyone in Victoria’s courts and tribunal buildings must be limited…
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With borders closed, our lifelines to family overseas have been cut. The isolation is suffocating
Τhe first exhibition I visited when I arrived in Sydney in 2010 was called On Their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants.…
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