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Why children need to be taught to think critically about Remembrance Day

  • Written by: Kim Wilson, Lecturer in History Education, Macquarie University
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A few years ago, my then four-year-old daughter came home from preschool wanting to know who the soldiers were and why they died.

As a history teacher for nearly two decades, I thought I had it covered. This was my moment to shine as a parent and educator. Unfortunately, I had grossly overestimated my capabilities. I found myself stumbling over...

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Friday essay: Mapplethorpe and me

  • Written by: Annamarie Jagose, Head of School of Letters, Art and Media, University of Sydney
imageExhibition installation view of Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect medium at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Oct 2017 – 18 Feb 2018. All artworks © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission. Photo: AGNSW, Christopher Snee

One of this summer’s blockbuster exhibitions has just opened at the Art Gallery of New South...

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Vital Signs: business conditions are peachy, so why aren't businesses investing?

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: interest rates remained on hold as housing finance fell to a new low, conditions remain good for...

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Sharing economy sounds caring, but let's put it to the ethical city test

  • Written by: Ralph Horne, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation; Director of UNGC Cities Programme; Professor, RMIT University
imageWe need to look behind the sharing economy's apparently informal, casual intent to consider the impacts on people's lives.Montri Nipitvittaya/Shutterstock

More than ever, cities face multiple crises posing paradoxical opportunities. Key challenges for cities in the urban century are climate change, inequality and governance. Where are the...

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  3. Sharkie told by Turnbull she may have to go to High Court
  4. Grattan on Friday: Voters just want citizenship crisis fixed – but it isn't that easy
  5. Politics podcast: swinging into the Sunshine State's election
  6. Time for costly medicine monopolies to go from TPP trade talks
  7. We made great strides with childhood leukaemia – we can do the same for brain cancer
  8. Could we nationalise the superannuation system even if we wanted to?
  9. The ACCC investigation into the NBN will be useful. But it's too little, too late
  10. Negative charge: why is Australia so slow at adopting electric cars?
  11. Kantian comedy: the philosophy of The Good Place
  12. Princes, power and purges: the Saudi royal family consolidates its rule
  13. Australian companies should cultivate local tech workers not play the 457 visa game
  14. Islands lost to the waves: how rising seas washed away part of Micronesia's 19th-century history
  15. If Queenslanders vote on economic issues the Labor government is looking good
  16. Stars that vary in brightness shine in the oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians
  17. As we remember the Russian revolution, The Death of Stalin reminds us of its brutal apogee
  18. As Socceroos face moment of truth, let's remember our football triumph of 1967
  19. Simplistic advice for teachers on how to teach won't work
  20. What causes SIDS? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  21. Movies and TV choose to tell us different stories about the cities of today
  22. Dems easily win Virginia and New Jersey governors. Left gains control of Tas upper house
  23. Turnbull and Shorten haggle over detail of citizenship disclosure system
  24. Australia might water down illegal logging laws – here's why it's a bad idea
  25. How the Paradise Papers reveal the tension between rock stars and the tax man
  26. Health Check: which sports supplements actually work?
  27. From selfie to infinity: Yayoi Kusama’s amazing technicoloured dreamscape
  28. It's time for a royal commission into banking regulation
  29. Closing Uluru to climbers is better for tourism in the long run
  30. You may be sick of worrying about online privacy, but 'surveillance apathy' is also a problem
  31. Three strategies to fight the tax avoidance revealed by the Paradise Papers
  32. Infections, complications and safety breaches: why patients need better data on how hospitals compare
  33. I've always wondered: do nuclear tests affect tectonic plates and cause earthquakes or volcanic eruptions?
  34. Australians born overseas prefer the online world for their news
  35. Why Australia shouldn't fear a wave of trade protectionism
  36. Curious Kids: Why do tears come out of our eyes when we cry?
  37. Can you make a 10-year malt whisky in weeks? The chemistry says yes
  38. 'Australia has no culture': changing the mindset of the cringe
  39. How do we turn a drain into valued green space? First, ask the residents
  40. Stories of sex, stars and sharks amongst the best Australian science writing in 2017
  41. Sustainable shopping: how to rock white sneakers without eco-guilt
  42. In the 'fearless city', Barcelona residents take charge
  43. Why Adani may still get its government loan
  44. Dear Prime Minister: we'd like you to join the call for a ban on killer robots
  45. A criminal record: women and Australian true crime stories
  46. How to use music to fine tune your child for school
  47. It's not just mums who need to avoid alcohol when trying for a baby
  48. With a new futures market, Bitcoin is going mainstream
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