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Australia's copyright reform could bring millions of books and other reads to the blind

  • Written by: Nicolas Suzor, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageRule change should make it easier for more copyright works to be made available in Braille.Chinnapong/Shutterstock

Proposed changes to Australia’s copyright law should make it easier for people to create and distribute versions of copyrighted works that are accessible to people with disabilities.

The Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and...

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National Science Statement does little to bring industry and researchers together

  • Written by: Beth Webster, Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology

The Australian Government released a National Science Statement yesterday – the punchline being it will announce a new plan sometime this year. Aside from appointing a very able, experienced and articulate Chief Scientist (Dr Alan Finkel), we have seen in recent years remarkably little in the form of actual policies to transform Australian...

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Research suggests motherhood has changed my brain.

  • Written by: Olivia Carter, Associate professor, University of Melbourne

“Mum is it winter soon?”

Yesterday this simple question sent my brain into meltdown. As I tried to work out if summer was over yet, I realised I couldn’t even remember if we should be entering Spring or Autumn.

Feeling defeated, I deflected the question to my 8-year-old daughter Susie. She happily rattled off the answer to the...

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How 19th century fairy tales expressed anxieties about ecological devastation

  • Written by: Victoria Tedeschi, PhD candidate, University of Melbourne
imageIn the Fir Tree, children stamp on a discarded – but feeling – Christmas tree. The Fir Tree, illustrated by George Dalziel and Edward Dalziel, from Out of the Heart: Spoken to the Little Ones, 1867

Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was one of the most popular European fairy tale authors in 19th century England. While today...

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  3. Politics podcast: Michaelia Cash on union misconduct
  4. Terror in London: Western cities will always be vulnerable to these attacks
  5. Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it
  6. NDIS housing rules for people with a disability could be life-changing
  7. Flying into uncertainty: Western Sydney's 'aerotropolis' poses more questions than answers
  8. Here's how much it would cost the government to pay everyone who takes care of family with mental illness
  9. It's harder for governments to tax their way out of rising inequality
  10. 'Empowerment' feminism is not working – we need a far more radical approach to gender equality
  11. Did Indigenous warriors influence the development of Australian rules football?
  12. Snowy hydro scheme will be left high and dry unless we look after the mountains
  13. How we edit science part 4: how to talk about risk, and words and images not to use
  14. The US just made flying harder for millions. Tips for dealing with the laptop ban
  15. National Science Statement a positive gesture but lacks policy solutions: experts
  16. Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do
  17. Western Australia's welcome engagement in Asia has been a long time coming
  18. Swisse cheese: there are too many holes in complementary medicine regulations already
  19. Film review: A Plastic Ocean shows us a world awash with rubbish
  20. Commercialise my footy: how the AFL's grip on the game shrinks the fans' role
  21. You can't rely on fish oil supplements in pregnancy to make your children smarter
  22. Proposed changes may confuse rather than clarify the meaning of Section 18C
  23. The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
  24. Trump's credibility takes a hit as FBI finds no evidence of Obama 'wiretap'
  25. How to reduce dependency on drugs like Valium with alternative therapies
  26. How electric cars can help save the grid
  27. How we edit science part 3: impact, curiosity and red flags
  28. In a miserable year, the Adelaide Festival brought us joy
  29. Conservatives have captured Turnbull for culture war crusade
  30. Coalition rebounds in Newspoll following Snowy announcement, but Essential moves to Labor
  31. Section 18C change appears doomed in Senate
  32. Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first
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  34. After the Catalyst arts funding mess, many questions remain
  35. To be ill is human: why normalising illness would make it easier to cope with
  36. Homophobia is harmful to workers and businesses
  37. The government's multicultural statement is bereft of new ideas or policies – why?
  38. Interculturalism: how diverse societies can do better than passive tolerance
  39. How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action
  40. Apocalypse now: wifi and radiation sickness sweeping the world
  41. We still don't know how 'America First' will play out in Asia
  42. How we edit science part 2: significance testing, p-hacking and peer review
  43. After the robo-debt debacle, here's how Centrelink can win back Australians' trust
  44. Infographic: the truth behind Centrelink's waiting times
  45. Higher child support doesn't lead to welfare dependency for single mums
  46. When politicians listen to scientists, we all benefit
  47. Government needs to front up billions, not millions, to save Australia's threatened species
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