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We need a legally binding treaty to make plastic pollution history

  • Written by: Trisia Farrelly, Senior Lecturer, Massey University
We need a legally binding treaty to make plastic pollution historyThe world urgently needs to move past plastic. Veronika Meduna

A powerful marriage between the fossil fuel and plastic industries threatens to exacerbate the global plastic pollution crisis. The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) estimates the next five years will see a 33-36% surge in global plastics production.

This will undermine...

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a parent's guide to protecting your kids from online hoaxes

  • Written by: Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Technology and Learning, Western Sydney University
a parent's guide to protecting your kids from online hoaxesYou can help your children investigate any online hoax.Shutterstock/junpinzon

It’s a parent’s responsibility to protect their children from harm, no matter where that threat of harm comes from. But what if the threat is a hoax?

We’ve seen recently a rollercoaster of panic from parents trying to protect their kids from a supposed...

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Rebel teens can quickly make friends, but in the end, it's the nice ones who have the most

  • Written by: Joseph Ciarrochi, Professor of Psychology, Australian Catholic University
Rebel teens can quickly make friends, but in the end, it's the nice ones who have the mostHigh school can be a hard place to make friends, but research shows being nice may be all it takes.Simon Maage/Unsplash

Simply being nice wins more friends in high school than being a rebel, our study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology has found.

We looked at what sorts of social strategies help teens win close friends of the same and...

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Antoinette de Saint-Étienne, the First Nations nun who sang for a queen

  • Written by: Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia
Antoinette de Saint-Étienne, the First Nations nun who sang for a queenMap of New France, by Samuel de Champlain (1612), including French depictions of First Nations peoples.Wikimedia Commons

In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages.

In an archive in regional France, the story of a Canadian First Nations woman emerges from an old manuscript written by nuns documenting the history of their...

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  1. Australia’s performance on gender equality – are we fair dinkum?
  2. a fresh idea to escape the low wage trap
  3. With Grand Finale, audiences bear witness to a world on the edge
  4. Pandanomics is a grey area, but to us the value of giant pandas is black and white
  5. Why you shouldn’t bury your pet in the backyard
  6. Social media creates a spectacle society that makes it easier for terrorists to achieve notoriety
  7. Morrison announces $55 million for security at religious premises and warns against "tribalism"
  8. NSW election likely to be close, and Mark Latham will win an upper house seat
  9. Four lessons we must take away from the Christchurch terror attack
  10. New TAFE program for Aboriginal health-care students sees a near perfect completion rate
  11. We need a new definition of pornography
  12. Two million Aussies delay or don't go to the dentist – here's how we can fix that
  13. Women can build positive body image by controlling what they view on social media
  14. Ultra low wage growth isn't accidental. It is the intended outcome of government policies
  15. giving marsupials scents from suitors helps breeding programs
  16. why bats sleep upside down, and other stories of animal adaptation
  17. Youth homelessness efforts get a lowly 2 stars from national report card
  18. A truly inclusive society requires political restraint
  19. NSW election neck and neck as voters face a 1950s-style 'I'll see you and raise you' campaign
  20. Christchurch attacks are a stark warning of toxic political environment that allows hate to flourish
  21. Can a senator be expelled from the federal parliament for offensive statements?
  22. The psychology of fear and hate, and what each of us can do to stop it
  23. Why overhauling NZ's gun and terrorism laws alone can't stop terrorist attacks
  24. Christchurch mosque shootings must end New Zealand's innocence about right-wing terrorism
  25. Why news outlets should think twice about republishing the New Zealand mosque shooter's livestream
  26. If you've got private health insurance, the choice to use it in a public hospital is your own
  27. Guinea flowers are fierce and golden
  28. Liberal MP Craig Laundy confirms he will quit
  29. Michelle Grattan on the Coalition and Coal
  30. how love, pain and sacrifice produced an Australian classic
  31. why we always choose story over technology
  32. Most recreational fishers in Australia support marine sanctuaries
  33. Finally, people with disabilities will have a chance to tell their stories – and be believed
  34. Elite sport is becoming a platform to target the trans community
  35. What do we mean by meaning? Science can help with that
  36. The terror of climate change is transforming young people's identity
  37. Chinese-Australia relations may not be 'toxic', but they do need to keep warming up
  38. How can we make families safer? Get men to change their violent behaviour
  39. ALP urges Fair Work Commission to give "substantial" minimum wage increase
  40. why is Australian satire so rarely risky?
  41. Vital signs. It's one thing to back down on Hayne's recommendation about mortgage brokers, it's another to offer nothing in its place
  42. Build social and affordable housing to get us off the boom-and-bust roller coaster
  43. Housing policy reset is overdue, and not only in Australia
  44. The Coalition is trapped in its coal minefield
  45. All Boeing 737 MAX flights grounded – and travellers could feel it in the hip pocket
  46. Dowry abuse does exist, but let's focus on the wider issues of economic abuse and coercive control
  47. Students striking for climate action are showing the exact skills employers look for
  48. The Catholic Church is investigating George Pell's case. What does that mean?
  49. The Australian Web Archive is a momentous achievement – but things will get harder from here
  50. Landmark High Court decision guides how compensation for native title losses will be determined

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