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10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their own

  • Written by: Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Discipline of Linguistics, University of Western Australia
10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their ownGlenys Dale Collard, Author provided

Aboriginal English is spoken by an estimated 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and is the first and only language spoken by many Aboriginal children.

There are similarities between Standard Australian English and Aboriginal English, but this can pose serious obstacles for its speakers, who are...

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should bosses be able to spy on workers, even when they work from home?

  • Written by: Val Hooper, Associate Professor, and Head of the School of Marketing and International Business, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s novel 1984 will relate to the menace of Big Brother watching their every keystroke and mouse click. For a growing share of the workforce that dystopian reality arrived while most of us were hunkering down in our “bubbles”.

With employees working from home during the...

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Cats wreak havoc on native wildlife, but we’ve found one adorable species outsmarting them

  • Written by: Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Cats wreak havoc on native wildlife, but we’ve found one adorable species outsmarting themZoos Victoria, Author provided

Feral and pet cats are responsible for a huge part of Australia’s shameful mammal extinction record. Small and medium-sized ground-dwelling mammals are most susceptible.

But we’ve found one mammal in particular that can outsmart cats and live alongside them: the long-nosed potoroo.

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Trust, democracy and COVID-19: A British perspective

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

Conversation-Democracy 2025 Podcast on “Political Trust in Times of COVID-19” produced by ContentGroup

A week ago, the British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced that the number of people killed by the coronavirus in the United Kingdom stood at 32,313, the second highest death toll in the world.

Health experts believe that the real...

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  2. what does the law say about secret recordings and the public interest?
  3. How Paul Keating transformed the economy and the nation
  4. The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds
  5. how Australia's wine industry can adapt to climate change
  6. Karm Gilespie's case cannot be separated completely from strained Sino-Australian relations
  7. Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female
  8. Australia's decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit
  9. 'Can do' Scott Morrison needs to take care in deregulating
  10. Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere
  11. Removing monuments to an imperial past is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires
  12. is time travel possible for humans?
  13. what is branch stacking, and why has neither major party been able to stamp it out?
  14. We don't know if breastfeeding is rising or falling in Australia. That's bad for everyone
  15. what we can learn from the successes of post-war reconstruction
  16. Getting vaccinated at the pharmacy? Make sure it's recorded properly
  17. international students make up more than 30% of population in some Australian suburbs
  18. We may live to regret open-slather construction stimulus
  19. Universities and government need to rethink their relationship with each other before it's too late
  20. Using cannabis during pregnancy could be bad news for your baby: new research
  21. experts react to plans to release 2 million fish into the Murray Darling
  22. Disadvantaged students may have lost 1 month of learning during COVID-19 shutdown. But the government can fix it
  23. The next once-a-century pandemic is coming sooner than you think – but COVID-19 can help us get ready
  24. the self-surveillance strategy to keep supermarket shoppers honest
  25. what seniors want instead of retirement villages and how to achieve it
  26. Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock's famous fright film broke all the rules
  27. Morrison commits another $1.5 billion for infrastructure
  28. 48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest
  29. Senate committees are one of the few bright spots in the battle to hold government to account
  30. The coastal banksia has its roots in ancient Gondwana
  31. Non-Indigenous Australians need to educate themselves. One way to do this is to take an Indigenous tour.
  32. Michelle Grattan on protests, social-distancing, and domestic borders
  33. Bob Santamaria, 'the most significant' figure in Australian politics never to have been in parliament
  34. Tear gas and pepper spray are chemical weapons. So, why can police use them?
  35. taking a wrecking ball to monuments – contemporary art can ask what really needs tearing down
  36. What makes pepper spray so intense? And is it a tear gas? A chemical engineer explains
  37. why 'the marketplace for ideas' can fail – from an economist's perspective
  38. New NSW building law could be a game changer for apartment safety
  39. Should I wear a mask on public transport?
  40. The state removal of Māori children from their families is a wound that won't heal – but there is a way forward
  41. 3 things international students want Australians to know
  42. 120 million years ago, giant crocodiles walked on two legs in what is now South Korea
  43. An El Niño hit this banana prawn fishery hard. Here’s what we can learn from their experience
  44. 4 ways a smart government can create jobs and cut emissions
  45. Protests add new element of uncertainty to COVID exit
  46. Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn't even be up for debate
  47. employers requisitioned our homes and our time
  48. TV has changed, so must the way we support local content
  49. Ten Twitter accounts you should be following if you want to listen to Indigenous Australians and learn
  50. what the AFL and NRL need to turn sport into show business

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