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Curious Kids: Why do adults think video games are bad?

  • Written by: Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Technology and Learning, Western Sydney University
imageWhy not ask a parent to play a problem-solving video game with you? Shutterstock/Alan Ingram

This is an article from Curious Kids, a new series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!


I want to know why adults think video...

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Sydneysiders blame foreign investors for high housing prices – survey

  • Written by: Dallas Rogers, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
imageMost Sydneysiders are concerned about the effects of foreign investment on the local real estate market. Dave Hunt/AAP

Sydneysiders are concerned that foreign investors, and particularly Chinese real estate investors, are pushing up housing prices, according to survey findings published this month. A majority believed foreign investors should not...

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The government should pick towns, not industries, to fund

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

Rather than propping up failing industries, what if government instead provided incentives like tax breaks for expanding firms to locate in regional centres? This would help policymakers avoid a retreat to protectionism while also going some of the way to addressing rising inequality in Australia.

So far in response to failing industries,...

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Christianity does not play a significant role in Australian politics, but cultural conservatism does

  • Written by: Geoffrey Robinson, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
imageFederal political leaders attend an ecumenical church service to mark the start of the parliamentary year in February. AAP/Lukas Coch

Debates about same-sex marriage and Catholic school funding suggest that religion plays an important role in Australian politics. But Australian political religion functions largely as an expression of a general...

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  3. The US quitting the Paris climate agreement will only make things worse
  4. Tax take shrinks as online accommodation agents rake it in
  5. GetUp raises nearly $200,000 in crowdfunding to campaign against Peter Dutton
  6. Newspoll steady at 53-47 to Labor. Plus UK and French elections
  7. When it comes to ransomware, it's sometimes best to pay up
  8. Review: Wonder Woman reinvigorates tired superhero conventions
  9. Trump demands a post-post-truth response
  10. Around the world, environmental laws are under attack in all sorts of ways
  11. Turnbull should deliver Gonski schools plan faster: Grattan Institute
  12. Improving Australia’s health requires better use of patient information
  13. Australia's videogames are inventive, acclaimed and world-class, so where's the government support?
  14. Fifty years on from the 1967 referendum, it's time to tell the truth about race
  15. Why the seemingly tidy, leaked proposal for hospital funding may be a problem policy
  16. Confused about changes to school funding? Here's what you need to know
  17. The government will likely get more from the bank levy than Labor or the big four think
  18. Should we negotiate with terrorist hostage takers?
  19. The truth about the Amazons - the real Wonder Women
  20. How old is too old for cholesterol lowering medications?
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  22. Melting ice and satellites: how to measure the Earth's 'wiggle'
  23. Apple working on AI chip for mobile devices bringing them a new level of intelligence
  24. Why the KPIs on university engagement need more thought
  25. Women rely on the family home to support them in old age
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  28. Not dead yet: how MP3 changed the way we listen to music
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  30. Explainer: the rise of naked tourism
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  35. The Manuka honey fight is one we have to have
  36. Manchester and the media: what coverage of the terrorist attack tells us about ourselves
  37. People with creative personalities really do see the world differently
  38. Why you're almost certainly wasting time rinsing your recycling
  39. Uluru call for constitutional First Nations Voice presents new challenge for Referendum Council
  40. The ABC is not siphoning audiences from Fairfax
  41. Faith, dance, and truth: the art of 2017 Red Ochre award-winner Ken Thaiday Snr
  42. Listening to the heart: what now for Indigenous recognition after the Uluru summit?
  43. Value(s) of Australian sport: the National Sports Plan
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  45. The NHMRC program grant overhaul: will it change the medical research landscape in Australia?
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