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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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  7. We made great strides with childhood leukaemia – we can do the same for brain cancer
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  10. Negative charge: why is Australia so slow at adopting electric cars?
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  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
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  18. As Socceroos face moment of truth, let's remember our football triumph of 1967
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  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
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  28. It's time for a royal commission into banking regulation
  29. Closing Uluru to climbers is better for tourism in the long run
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