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The Liberal Party is failing women miserably compared to other democracies, and needs quotas

  • Written by: Chris Wallace, ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
The Liberal Party is failing women miserably compared to other democracies, and needs quotasKelly O'Dwyer last week announced she would not be re-contesting her seat of Higgins at the 2019 elections.AAP/Ellen Smith

Look around the world this week and you see women exercising power and influence everywhere. In the United States, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is wrangling US President Donald Trump over his shutdown of federal government. In...

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Video games could teach spatial skills lost to a society dependent on devices

  • Written by: Lloyd White, Lecturer (Geology), University of Wollongong
Video games could teach spatial skills lost to a society dependent on devicesPlayers of Red Dead Redemption 2 use a detailed topographic map to navigate the landscape.Shutterstock

Video games have long been criticised for encouraging violence and antisocial behaviour. And parents often express concern that they could have detrimental effects on their child’s learning abilities.

But research has shown that...

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How moving house changes you

  • Written by: Rachael Wallis, Lecturer and Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
How moving house changes youTo make a success of moving home, to the country for example, it helps to be open to the ways a place will change you.Rachael Wallis, Author provided

Many people move in the summer months, but not everyone realises that moving starts a process of identity transformation that never really stops.

I first noticed something about place changing a...

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Guide to the classics: Wide Sargasso Sea

  • Written by: Sue Thomas, Emeritus Professor of English, La Trobe University
Guide to the classics: Wide Sargasso SeaLinen Market, Dominica, oil painting by Agostino Brunias, circa 1780Wikimedia Commons

In Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre (1847) the marriage ceremony of Jane Eyre and Edward Fairfax Rochester is spectacularly interrupted by the solicitor Mr Briggs declaring an impediment to the union: the prior marriage of Rochester to Bertha...

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  1. Forest soil needs decades or centuries to recover from fires and logging
  2. As work gets more ambiguous, younger generations may be less equipped for it
  3. Frydenberg warns of economic waves ahead
  4. advertisers can't just celebrate masculinity and ignore the #metoo movement
  5. Time for a Kondo clean-out? Here's what clutter does to your brain and body
  6. A good plan to help Darling River fish recover exists, so let's get on with it
  7. Yes, Morrison 'showed up' in the Pacific, but what did he actually achieve?
  8. why do spiders have hairy legs?
  9. Fleeing family violence to another country and taking your child is not 'abduction', but that's how the law sees it
  10. Liberals lose yet another high-profile woman, yet still no action on gender
  11. Stranger than fiction. Who Labor's capital gains tax changes will really hurt
  12. The state of Australia's Indigenous languages – and how we can help people speak them more often
  13. Why are teachers mostly female? Because men get better pay in other professions
  14. 100 years later, why don't we commemorate the victims and heroes of "Spanish flu"?
  15. A snapshot of our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus
  16. O'Dwyer's decision turns the spotlight onto Bishop
  17. Deer Woman is a work of immense power and restraint
  18. Refuge City, a new kind of city for our times
  19. Back to work? Take lunch from home to save time and money – and boost your mood
  20. it's too late for the silent generation
  21. What's the deal (or no-deal) with Brexit? Here's everything explained
  22. It's designers who can make gaming more accessible for people living with disabilities
  23. Ten ways teacher librarians improve literacy in schools
  24. Why do so few Aussies speak an Australian language?
  25. The financially well-off defy the stereotypes. They include retirees, and mortgagees
  26. the power of not being too clear
  27. Penalties for animal cruelty double in SA, but is this enough to stop animal abuse?
  28. should teaching students who fail a literacy and numeracy test be barred from teaching?
  29. Why Antarctica's sea ice cover is so low (and no, it's not just about climate change)
  30. How to feed a growing population healthy food without ruining the planet
  31. In the land of Storm Boy, the cultural heritage of the Coorong is under threat
  32. How realistic are China's plans to build a research station on the Moon?
  33. Recycling is not enough. Zero-packaging stores show we can kick our plastic addiction
  34. How Darling Harbour was botched (and could be reborn)
  35. Australians lost more than $10 million to scammers last year. Follow these easy tips to avoid being conned.
  36. does 'egg timer' testing work, and what are the other options?
  37. Cotton and rice have an important place in the Murray Darling Basin
  38. Gillette's corporate calculation shows just how far the #metoo movement has come
  39. Morrison's Vanuatu trip shows the government's continued focus on militarising the Pacific
  40. annoying campaign tricks that are legal
  41. The big lesson from Opal Tower is that badly built apartments aren't only an issue for residents
  42. We're in the era of overtourism but there is a more sustainable way forward
  43. Are Australian classrooms really the most disruptive in the world? Not if you look at the whole picture
  44. how do tongues taste food?
  45. 35 degree days make blackouts more likely, but new power stations won't help
  46. More than unpopular. How ParentsNext intrudes on single parents' human rights
  47. The Darling River is simply not supposed to dry out, even in drought
  48. Ruby Lindsay, one of Australia's first female graphic designers
  49. new drug MDPV, or 'monkey dust', found in Australia. What is it and what are the harms?
  50. What you need to know if your child with a disability is starting school soon

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