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Jamming with your toddler: how music trumps reading for childhood development

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imageIf you want to fast-track your child's development, forget CDs, books that beep, and toys that whirr. Play music with them, with the emphasis being on "play". www.shutterstock.com

Forget the Mozart Effect and Baby Einstein, take it easy on acquisitions for your two-year-old’s private library, and don’t fret if your three-year-old...

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The RBA should cut rates, but not because the banks are upping them

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imageLending in a frothy property market has the potential to bring the economy unstuck.Dan Himbrechts/AAP

When Australia’s Reserve Bank board meets on Melbourne Cup day next week, the question at hand is whether the RBA will seek to offset recent bank rate raises with a cut to the cash rate. With a cut, the hope is banks will then reverse their...

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Asylum seekers could be our next wave of entrepreneurs

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imageSarmad Qassem, a 17-year-old Iraqi teenager, sells hamburgers in Sayydeh Zenab, near Damascus.Khaled Al Hariri/Reuters

In the last 12 months Maria Sorkhi started a photography business, Sima Mahboobifard began selling leather bags, the Dendo brothers - Rony, Luay and Duraed - began their photography and videography business, while Bassam Jabar set...

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Could a new 'basic income' protect Australia's most vulnerable?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageA basic income proposal directly addresses the problem of people falling through the cracks of a complex welfare system. AAP/Julian Smith

Australia’s welfare system does a lot with a little. But the plight of growing numbers of precarious workers has led to calls for a new basic income.

The cost of such a scheme seems prohibitively expensive....

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