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Stop worrying about screen 'time'. It's your child’s screen experience that matters

  • Written by: Brittany Huber, Postdoctoral researcher, Swinburne University of Technology
Stop worrying about screen 'time'. It's your child’s screen experience that mattersGuidelines advise children under two shouldn't have any screen time, but most do anyway.Photo by Jelleke Vanooteghem on Unsplash

Most (80%) Australian parents worry children spend too much time with screens.

But what children are doing on and off screen matters more than how much time they’re exposed to screen media.

Too much time?

There was a...

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Finally, the NDIS will fund sex therapy. But it should cover sex workers too

  • Written by: Matthew Yau, Adjunct professor, College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University
Finally, the NDIS will fund sex therapy. But it should cover sex workers tooWhether sex therapy should be a funded disability support has been controversial since the NDIS was rolled out.From shutterstock.com

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal recently granted a woman with multiple sclerosis the right to have a sex therapist paid for under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

After her initial application for...

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Megan Davis on a First Nations Voice in the Constitution

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Last week on this podcast we talked to Ken Wyatt about the government’s plan for a referendum – hopefully this parliamentary term – to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution.

This week, we continue the conversation on Indigenous recognition with Megan Davis, a law professor and expert member of a key United Nations...

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why Bluey is a font of parenting wisdom

  • Written by: Koa Whittingham, Psychologist and Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
why Bluey is a font of parenting wisdomBluey is not just a TV success story - it also contains important parenting wisdom. IMDB

Bluey is a ground-breaking Australian children’s television series and the most downloaded show in ABC iView history. Since premiering in October 2018, Bluey has been played on iView over 100 million times, and it is set to stream internationally on Disney...

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  2. Four Corners’ forced labour exposé shows why you might be wearing slave-made clothes
  3. Teeth 'time capsule' reveals that 2 million years ago, early humans breastfed for up to 6 years
  4. Reading and writing assistance increases the chance of getting a Disability Support Pension
  5. Wind and solar cut rather than boost Australia's wholesale electricity prices
  6. Extremist mobs? How China's propaganda machine tried to control the message in the Hong Kong protests
  7. can people live in space?
  8. Regional cities beware – fast rail might lead to disadvantaged dormitories, not booming economies
  9. Meet the endangered Bunyip bird living in Australia's rice paddies
  10. Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up
  11. did the velociraptors have feathers?
  12. can a criminal suspect be identified just by the sound of his voice?
  13. 1 in 10 patients are infected in hospital, and it's not always with what you think
  14. The long history of gender violence in Australia, and why it matters today
  15. It's a bad year for flu, but it's too early to call it the worst ever – 5 charts on the 2019 season so far
  16. The edges of home ownership are becoming porous. It's no longer a one-way street
  17. Simple fixes could help save Australian consumers from up to $3.6 billion in 'loyalty taxes'
  18. China can learn from Australian urban design, but it's not all one-way traffic
  19. Making deer fair game for unlicensed hunting is the right step for New South Wales
  20. what Western civilisation owes to Islamic cultures
  21. It's not easy to give a robot a sense of touch
  22. Report finds every $1 Australia spends on preschool will return $2, but this won't just magically happen
  23. Inequality is growing, but it is also changing as Australia's super rich evolve
  24. They've cut deeming rates, but what are they?
  25. Michelle Grattan on the government's plans for Indigenous recognition
  26. The river red gum is an icon of the driest continent
  27. The TGA's proposed breast implant ban exposes a litany of failures, and fails to protect women
  28. human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing crime
  29. Group punishment doesn't fix behaviour
  30. the Australians who pioneered self-sufficiency, generations before Nimbin
  31. Design and repair must work together to undo our legacy of waste
  32. Looking after loved ones with mental illness puts carers at risk themselves. They need more support
  33. we need those tax cuts now, all of them. The surplus can wait
  34. How Muslim women break stereotypes by mixing faith and modesty with fashion
  35. Arctic ice loss is worrying, but the giant stirring in the South could be even worse
  36. We create 20m tons of construction industry waste each year. Here's how to stop it going to landfill
  37. When does getting help on an assignment turn into cheating?
  38. When it comes to Indigenous recognition, Ken Wyatt will have to close multiple gaps
  39. welcome to the bizarro world of negative interest rates
  40. Ken Wyatt's big promises on Indigenous affairs
  41. Understanding dog personalities can help prevent attacks
  42. In the remote Cambodian jungles, we made sure rare Siamese crocodiles would have enough food
  43. why is the Sun orange when white stars are the hottest?
  44. Women, rural and disadvantaged Australians may be missing out on care in the NDIS
  45. writing the powerful female world of Wentworth
  46. How to improve health outcomes for Indigenous peoples by making space for self-determination
  47. Ken Wyatt on constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians
  48. Deeming rates explained. What is deeming, how does it cut pensions, and why do we have it?
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  50. Indonesia has sent Australia's recycling home – it's time to clean up our act

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