Resilience

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Education

BMX teaches a valuable lesson: Success requires hard work and failure

BMX bike riding goes beyond physical fitness; enhancing mental health, social connectedness and personal growth

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Environment

Facing the flames of complacency

Extreme heat and fires in the Northern Hemisphere should be a loud wakeup call for an Australia in El Niño and on the brink of a difficult fire season

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Environment

Building resilience in remote communities

Noronha is a remote archipelago off Brazil’s coast, but it could provide insights into the challenges to building community and urban resilience

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Health & Medicine

What we know about our resilience after 2021

In Australia, 2021 was characterised by family, social and financial dislocation. But strengths built during adversity will help us cope individually and collectively in an uncertain 2022

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Environment

Hope and courage in the climate crisis

A new book is a guided tour of ideas to inspire and sustain radical hope and defiant courage in the long climate emergency which now lies before us

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Education

Emerging from COVID-19 and taking the chance to change

Across Australia, restrictions are loosening and now is a good time to take stock of how COVID-19 has changed our lives – and where we go from here

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Health & Medicine

How COVID-19 could inspire us to a better future

COVID-19 created new ways of working together overnight, but as restrictions are eased, what we do now and what comes next matters

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Education

Embracing a new normal in ourselves and communities

COVID-19 restrictions have gone on long enough to establish new habits. So what do we want to keep doing and stop doing, both individually and as a community?

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Health & Medicine

Black Saturday: Understanding disaster recovery and resilience

The Black Saturday bushfires taught us that disasters are a unique form of trauma - learning how to respond can help people and their communities recover

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Environment

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Podcast

Australia: Liveability vs sustainability

While Melbourne may be a liveable city, it’s got a way to go to become sustainable in the face of challenges like climate change

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