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Book review: The New Puberty

  • Written by: Lisa Mundy, Research Fellow, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
imageWe're still not really sure whether puberty is starting earlier. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Puberty is a topic we often feel uncomfortable talking about in society, let alone with our children. But Amanda Dunn’s book The New Puberty takes the reader on a journey through the complex and sometimes seemingly mysterious world of puberty.

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What Malcolm Turnbull might have learned from Alfred Deakin

  • Written by: Judith Brett, Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
imageIn jettisoning Alfred Deakin, the Liberals made a great mistake and showed the thinness of their historical memory.National Library of Australia

Australia’s federal Liberal Party began not with Robert Menzies in 1945, but with Alfred Deakin’s Commonwealth Liberal Party in 1909, and before that with his Liberal Protectionists.

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  3. The science of being 'nice': how politeness is different from compassion
  4. Pace of renewable energy shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
  5. 'Smart home' gadgets promise to cut power bills but many lie idle – or can even boost energy use
  6. New Zealand claims Barnaby Joyce as one of its own, in new dramatic citizenship turmoil
  7. Our lifestyle, not our innovation, attracts US investment to Australia
  8. Is liking something on Facebook 'protected political speech'? It depends
  9. Poo transplants beyond the yuck factor: what works, what doesn't and what we still don't know
  10. FactCheck Q A: is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source?
  11. The Madhouse Effect: this is how climate denial in Australia and the US compares
  12. Post-lobstergate swings to Labor in 4 Vic marginal seats
  13. High Court to rule on whether Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealander
  14. A short history of the office
  15. Why it costs you so much to see a specialist – and what the government should do about it
  16. How to engineer a plebiscite disaster: lessons from the Tasmanian dams vote
  17. Spotify may soon dominate music the way Google does search — this is why
  18. Cows in Antarctica? How one expedition milked them for all their worth
  19. Dancing brittle stars tell an ancient tale of life and death in brutal seas
  20. The bad buildings scream – lessons from Don Dale and other failed institutions
  21. Tweet streams: how social media can help keep tabs on ecosystems' health
  22. On North Korea, Turnbull locks Australia into the unpredictability of unpredictable players
  23. Turnbull's North Korea intervention could be his own 'all the way with LBJ' moment
  24. Why kids knock over drinks and must be careful around cars
  25. Pregnant women shouldn't start taking vitamin B3 just yet: reports it prevents miscarriage and birth defects are overblown
  26. A memo to Google – firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
  27. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on same-sex marriage going postal
  28. We frown on voters' ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
  29. Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia
  30. Love of bookshops in a time of Amazon and populism
  31. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the Senate
  32. Clearing homeless camps compounds the violation of human rights and entrenches the problem
  33. Friday essay: political cartooning – the end of an era
  34. Vital Signs: that feeling you get when the economy can't be explained by economic models
  35. Is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time? That's not what the numbers say
  36. Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  37. People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands
  38. Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull
  39. Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why
  40. Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
  41. New rules for retailers, but don’t sit there waiting for your electricity bill to go down
  42. 'Fire and fury': Trump’s impulsive rhetoric on North Korea threatens the region
  43. Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security
  44. Fee increases still on the table after Senate committee reports on higher education changes
  45. How safe are heartburn medications and who should use them?
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  47. ASEAN's mid-life crisis?
  48. Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago
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