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Young children with autism can thrive in mainstream childcare

  • Written by: Kristelle Hudry, Senior Research Fellow, and Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, La Trobe University
Young children with autism can thrive in mainstream childcareThis study found children with autism could be effectively supported in mainstream childcare.www.shutterstock.com

Much of the research about including children with autism in mainstream classrooms is focused on school-aged children. Growing numbers of children with autism are diagnosed in toddlerhood, so there is increasing relevance for the...

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garish feminism and the new poetic confessionalism

  • Written by: Susan Bradley Smith, Senior Lecturer Creative Writing, Curtin University
garish feminism and the new poetic confessionalismProtestors at an anti-Trump rally in 2017.Shutterstock

Garish (adjective) Extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless.

-Oxford English Dictionary

Stevie Nicks once wrote in her celebrated song Dreams, “Have you any dreams you’d like to sell?” As a lyricist, she gathered up stories and told them back to us so that...

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why now is the right time to clamp down on negative gearing

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
why now is the right time to clamp down on negative gearingNegative gearing makes it hard for renters to become home owners. Now would be a pain-free time to wind it back.Shutterstock

When I wrote a report for the McKell Institute about negative gearing, Switching Gears, in 2015, Australia had a housing affordability crisis and negative gearing was costing the budget A$4 billion per year.

Three years on,...

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Crossbench women give Morrison a break after week from hell

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

Many voters mightn’t thank Scott Morrison for confirming he plans to run the election date out to May. Given Canberra politics is so dysfunctional, it feels like prolonging the agony.

With the widespread assumption that the Coalition can’t recover, the early months of 2019 will be something of a hiatus - various stakeholders will put...

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  2. The Indigenous community deserves a voice in the constitution. Will the nation finally listen?
  3. Instrument of torture? In defence of the recorder
  4. When it comes to race and justice, 'colour-blindness' is not good enough
  5. Digital assistants like Alexa and Siri might not be offering you the best deals
  6. Malcolm Turnbull accuses his critics of "paranoia"
  7. Josh Frydenberg on Liberal troubles
  8. why we need better portrayals of people of colour on television
  9. why urban-fringe farming is vital for food resilience
  10. Heatwaves threaten Australians' health, and our politicians aren't doing enough about it
  11. The five not-so-easy steps that would push wage growth higher
  12. Does the G20 summit really make a difference? World leaders reckon it does
  13. Much at stake as Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet at G20
  14. We made deceptive robots to see why fake news spreads, and found a weakness
  15. Why it is (almost) impossible to teach creativity
  16. what is irritable bowel syndrome and what can I do about it?
  17. Land makes the housing market different, so changing planning rules won't fix affordability
  18. So what's a secretary to do? Banking Royal Commission raises questions about what's in minutes
  19. Australia's spies to be allowed to use more force
  20. Tension as scientist at centre of CRIPSR outrage speaks at genome editing summit
  21. Morrison's authority deficit on show at home and abroad
  22. Sydney storms could be making the Queensland fires worse
  23. Computing faces an energy crunch unless new technologies are found
  24. the paintings of Tony Tuckson
  25. Why do people get cancer?
  26. The foreign donations bill will soon be law
  27. André Rieu gives his audience exactly what they want: entertainment
  28. Tassie devils' decline has left a feast of carrion for feral cats
  29. Why racism is so hard to define and even harder to understand
  30. Twelve charts on race and racism in Australia
  31. What are tech companies doing about ethical use of data? Not much
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  33. Just how 'city smart' are local governments in Queensland?
  34. What would a fair energy transition look like?
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  36. lessons from the Foodora bunfight
  37. What happens when labour is induced and when is it necessary?
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  39. Liberal Julia Banks defects to crossbench as Scott Morrison confirms election in May
  40. In crime reporting, we should ask better questions about the relevance of religion and ethnicity
  41. Researcher claims CRISPR-edited twins are born. How will science respond?
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  43. How a change in climate wiped out the 'Siberian unicorn'
  44. Our long fascination with the journey to Mars
  45. New research on nightclubs finds men do it often but know it's wrong
  46. The battle to be the Amazon (or Netflix) of transport
  47. For the first time we've looked at every threatened bird in Australia side-by-side
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