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Indigenous Australians shouldn't have to sing it

  • Written by: Keith D. Parry, Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, University of Winchester
Indigenous Australians shouldn't have to sing itThe NSW Blues' Cody Walker is one of several players who will remain silent during the Australian national anthem at Wednesday's State of Origin match. Dean Lewins/AAP

It is traditional at major sports events to begin with a rendition of the national anthem. At the State of Origin rugby league clash between New South Wales and Queensland on...

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Budget lessons in the politics of Indigenous self-determination

  • Written by: Dominic O'Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
Budget lessons in the politics of Indigenous self-determinationNew Zealand's well-being budget makes a significant contribution to Māori self-determination.from www.shutterstock.com

Support for Māori communities was a funding priority in New Zealand’s well-being budget. In a Facebook post, Labour MP Meka Whaitiri celebrated the new targeted investment of NZ$593 million as “simply...

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How we tracked down the only known sculpture of a WWI Indigenous soldier

  • Written by: Tom Murray, Senior Lecturer and former ARC DECRA Fellow in Screen Media, Macquarie University
How we tracked down the only known sculpture of a WWI Indigenous soldierRupert O’Flynn with Rudolf Marcuse’s bronze bust of Douglas Grant, December 2016. Photograph courtesy Tom Murray.

Germany, 1918. Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp, not far from Berlin. An Australian Indigenous POW, Douglas Grant, sits as a model for a portrait bust by a German Jewish sculptor, Rudolf Marcuse.

The completed work is...

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How to know if your child is addicted to video games and what to do about it

  • Written by: Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Technology and Learning, Western Sydney University
How to know if your child is addicted to video games and what to do about itWhen gaming interferes with a person’s daily life, it might become a disorder.Alex Haney

If your child spends long hours playing video games, you might be worried they’re addicted.

“Gaming disorder” is real, and has now been classified as a disease in the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of...

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