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Going travelling? Don't forget insurance (and to read the fine print)

  • Written by: David Beirman, Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney
Going travelling? Don't forget insurance (and to read the fine print)If you don't have a motorbike license back home, your insurance might not cover you if you have an accident abroad. Eirik Skarstein

Over the past year, Australians took almost 11 million international trips. We’re among the world’s leading international travellers on a per-capita basis.

Australians took more than 3.5 million trips to...

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Where do dreams come from?

  • Written by: Shane Rogers, Lecturer in Psychology, Edith Cowan University
Where do dreams come from?Scientists have a few ideas about where dreams come from -- but nobody knows for sure. Flickr/Patrick, CC BY-SA

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome: find out how to enter at the bottom. You might also like...

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should I lie to my children about Santa?

  • Written by: Sophie Heizer, Commissioning Editor, Education, The Conversation
should I lie to my children about Santa?If they ask, tell them the truth.www.shutterstock.com

Ah yes, December. Christmas trees and decorations are popping up in shop windows, the weather is warming up, and the school holiday period looms. This may be exciting or distressing, depending on your relationship with your family.

Not everyone celebrates Christmas. But, for those who do, you may...

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Grey nomad lifestyle provides a model for living remotely

  • Written by: Timothy Moore, PhD Candidate, Melbourne School of Design, Monash University
Grey nomad lifestyle provides a model for living remotelyGrey nomads are champions of a radical type of portable urbanism as they travel to far-flung places like Lake Ballard in Western Australia.Image courtesy of Tourism Western Australia, Author provided

Every other year, retired couple Jorg and Jan journey some 5,000 kilometres in their campervan from Port Fairy in southeastern Australia to Broome in...

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  2. How researchers assess whether medications work
  3. the power of a symbol
  4. The government can restrain electricity prices without threatening to break up power companies. Its adviser says so
  5. forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)
  6. The government's encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over security
  7. Michelle Grattan on a chaotic final week of parliament for 2018
  8. The problems with small satellites – and what Australia's Space Agency can do to help
  9. Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirth
  10. The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster
  11. how working parents manage school holidays and their jobs
  12. Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content
  13. Australians love their sport, but investing in new venues is another matter
  14. love hurts – on a life of sports fandom
  15. Men get postnatal depression too, and as the mother's main support, they need help
  16. Darwin port's sale is a blueprint for China's future economic expansion
  17. 35 extraordinary years. What the float of Australian dollar bought us
  18. Are the tech giants taking over as your city leaders?
  19. Remembering Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the theatre of war
  20. Perth's brief abalone season is a time of delicacies and danger
  21. Hokey-pokey politics as the government is shaken all about
  22. Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaring
  23. George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked him
  24. Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian's Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
  25. Voters are crying out for better government but have mixed views on how to achieve it
  26. Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand
  27. Student protests show Australian education does get some things right
  28. Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne Ihlen
  29. Will Hayne blink? The problems with banks demand tough measures that neither they nor their regulators want
  30. Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats
  31. renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)
  32. Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
  33. How sport can tackle violence against women and girls
  34. Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
  35. I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?
  36. Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand
  37. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  38. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  39. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  40. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  41. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  42. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW
  43. In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soil
  44. How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play
  45. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  46. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery
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