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Childcare funding changes leave disadvantaged children with fewer hours of early education

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imageChildren need more than one day per week of preschool education to feel secure, build relationships and support learning.www.shutterstock.com

Hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged Australian children will be worse off from next week following government changes to childcare funding which mean they will receive fewer hours of early education.

While...

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Eyes down: how setting our sights on soil could help save the climate

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imageThe world's soils store four times more carbon than its plants.Elena Arkadova/Shutterstock.com

The world’s soils could be a key ally in the fight to limit global warming to 2℃, thanks to their ability to store carbon and keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

France’s agriculture minister Stéphane Le Foll has founded...

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New Zealand takes aim at fossil fuels, but the numbers tell a different story

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imageBig promises: John Key addresses the COP21 opening session.EPA/Etienne Laurent

New Zealand had a fairly high profile on day 1 of the COP21 in Paris. Prime Minister John Key told the opening Leaders Session of his intent to make a “strong contribution” through a new emissions-reduction target of 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.

He failed to...

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Embattled Brough now in stoush with 60 Minutes

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imageMal Brough is being targeted daily in Question Time about his involvement in seeking copies of Peter Slipper's diary. Mick Tsikas/AAP

Tellingly, in Tuesday’s parliamentary debate about the embattled Mal Brough, the government did not put up any senior minister to defend him.

Instead, it was left to an assistant minister, National Darren...

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