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Education
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Australian universities must prioritise Indigenous engineers
Indigenous ingenuity has all the hallmarks that modern engineers strive for – and Australia universities must shift their higher education paradigm
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Arts & Culture
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Why children’s stories are full of orphans, evil stepmothers and boarding schools
While ideas of family are changing, from Charles Dickens to Harry Potter, absent parents endure in children’s literature
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Health & Medicine
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Our mental health has gone digital
Apps, wearables and ingestibles that support digital mental health have lowered barriers to access but have profound social, ethical, and legal implications
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Environment
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Black Summer showed we’re good in an emergency but bad in a crisis
Australia’s emergency response to bushfire is “exemplary” but we repeatedly fail to deal with the climate crises that cause disasters
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Politics & Society
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The great ‘gayby’ boom
Changing social and legal perspectives of parenthood, and access to the global fertility industry has enabled a huge rise in queer people raising children
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Health & Medicine
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How epigenetics is transforming our understanding of evolution
A new book reveals how a population’s non-genetic responses to environmental change are central to the process of evolution
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Environment
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The Indigenous cultural knowledges co-designing campuses
Universities are often catalysts for change. A new book explores modern Australian university campuses, focusing on the increasing role of Country and Indigenous co-design
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Health & Medicine
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Knowing when to seek help for mental health
When challenges arise we may feel confused, but there are five signs to help us understand when to seek mental health support
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Health & Medicine
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The Voice to Parliament and echoes of Mabo
Australians vote this year in a referendum that could enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, alongside State and region-based Treaties, Truth-Telling and State based-Voices to Parliament