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How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language

  • Written by: Maxine Whittaker, Dean, Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University
imageThe bubonic plague slowed urbanisation, industrial development and economic growth in Europe for many years.from www.shutterstock.com

This is the last article in our four-part package looking at infectious diseases and how they’ve influenced our culture and evolution. Read the other articles here.


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Why it matters to transform parent involvement from early childhood to primary school

  • Written by: Laura McFarland, Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, Charles Sturt University
imageParents need to adopt new roles to encourage learning when their kids transition to primary school.shutterstock

How can parents best help their children with their schooling without actually doing it for them? This article is part of our series on Parents’ Role in Education, focusing on how best to support learning from early childhood to...

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Resume robot wars: how employees could match employers' use of tech in job applications

  • Written by: Joshua Krook, Doctoral Candidate in Law, University of Adelaide
imageIronically, one of the biggest advantages of a bot-based application system is that it can come across as more personal than a human.www.shutterstock.com

An estimated 90% of large companies are using automated software to read and respond to resumes. From tracking software that reads a resume looking for keywords, to automated emails, phone...

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How many people can Australia feed?

  • Written by: Bill Bellotti, Professor and Director Food Systems Program, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland
imageAustralia might have been 'built on the sheep's back' but we can't eat off it.Stanley Zimny/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Population growth has profound impacts on Australian life, and sorting myths from facts can be difficult. This article is part of our series, Is Australia Full?, which aims to help inform a wide-ranging and often emotive debate.


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  1. What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space
  2. Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
  3. Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology
  4. The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal
  5. We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next
  6. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  7. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
  8. From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits
  9. Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer
  10. Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong
  11. Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
  12. What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality
  13. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  14. What actually is a good city?
  15. Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?
  16. How we change the organisms that infect us
  17. Eleven games and activities for parents to encourage maths in early learning
  18. Three charts on: G20 countries' stealth trade protectionism
  19. The UN is slowly warming to the task of protecting World Heritage sites from climate change
  20. Smartphone apps can be memory aids for people with brain injuries, and everyone else
  21. Curious Kids: Are zombies real?
  22. From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children's books
  23. Turnbull loses 15th successive Newspoll, 53-47. UK Labour doubles support in YouGov since April
  24. Turnbull finds the sensible centre a slippery patch
  25. Why GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and why it's time to set targets
  26. How worried should you be about lead from Aldi taps?
  27. With better data access, urban planners could help ease our weight problems
  28. Donald Horne's 'lucky country' and the decline of the public intellectual
  29. How Australia's discrimination laws and public health campaigns perpetuate fat stigma
  30. Explainer: what can Tesla's giant South Australian battery achieve?
  31. All tip, no iceberg: a new way to think about mental illness
  32. La Mama demonstrates the value of independent theatre
  33. Can you spare 5 minutes for The Conversation?
  34. More reason to use Meningococcal B vaccine – it could also cut the Clap
  35. Why a population of, say, 15 million makes sense for Australia
  36. How we've evolved to fight the bugs that infect us
  37. Five lessons from Tokyo, a city of 38m people, for Australia, a nation of 24m
  38. How to encourage literacy in young children (and beyond)
  39. Migrants are stopping regional areas from shrinking
  40. Delaying action on car emissions will make Australia more vulnerable
  41. A time capsule containing 118 trillion cubic feet of gas is buried in northern Australia
  42. Here’s looking at: Jim Dine's The mighty robe
  43. Turnbull's dilemma: we don't need a homeland security portfolio but Dutton wants a bone
  44. Disagreement within the Greens shows the price of doing politics differently
  45. What we miss when we focus on the gender wage gap
  46. Why comparing technology to drugs isn't simply a question of addiction
  47. A short history of vaccine objection, vaccine cults and conspiracy theories
  48. Islamophobia is still raising its ugly head in Australia
  49. As an historic nuclear weapons treaty is reached, G20 leaders miss the mark on North Korea
  50. Four of the most lethal infectious diseases of our time and how we're overcoming them

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