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If we're serious about supporting working families, here are three policies we need to enact now

  • Written by: Leah Ruppanner, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Melbourne
If we're serious about supporting working families, here are three policies we need to enact nowAs more mothers re-enter the workforce, employers, governments and schools must support them. Shutterstock

As any parent can attest, the birth of a child unravels life into chaos. Babies – adorable little creatures – bring a whirlwind of nappies to be changed, bellies to be filled and often baffling demands to be met. In many...

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69 pharmaceuticals found in invertebrates living in Melbourne's streams

  • Written by: Erinn Richmond, Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, Monash University
69 pharmaceuticals found in invertebrates living in Melbourne's streamsThanks to their consumption of invertebrates, Melbourne platypus likely receive half the recommended human dose of anti-depressants every day. Denise Illing

Pharmaceuticals from wastewater are making their way into aquatic invertebrates and spiders living in and next to Melbourne’s creeks, according to our study published today in Nature...

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Chinese migrants follow and add to Australian city dwellers' giant ecological footprints

  • Written by: Peter Newton, Research Professor in Sustainable Urbanism, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
Chinese migrants follow and add to Australian city dwellers' giant ecological footprintsConspicuous consumption is one of the main ways that China-born migrants come to mirror Australian society.Nils Versemann/Shutterstock

This is the third article in our series, Australian Cities in the Asian Century. These articles draw on research, just published in a special issue of Geographical Research, into how Australian cities are being...

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David Malouf's An Open Book is poetry to sit with

  • Written by: Kevin Brophy, Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
David Malouf's An Open Book is poetry to sit withDavid Malouf's poetry collection An Open Book spans "a Beurre Bosch pear/in a fruit bowl to the planet". Shutterstock

Book Review: An Open Book, by David Malouf (UQP)


A new book of poetry is offered to a world of readers where very few of us have or take the time to read poetry. Most of us are skeptical about it, suspicious of it for asking of us so...

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  1. The curious case of the missing workplace teaspoons
  2. How we wiped out the invasive African big-headed ant from Lord Howe Island
  3. quetiapine, the antipsychotic 'sleeping pill' linked to overdoses
  4. who really owns the name and the knowledge
  5. Why do vegans have such bad reputations?
  6. are light dairy products better?
  7. Where are Chinese migrants choosing to settle in Australia? Look to the suburbs
  8. the earliest European image of Aboriginal Australians
  9. sports stadiums should benefit everyone, not just fans
  10. Initiative Q is not the new Bitcoin, but here’s why the idea has value
  11. Curious Kids: How do we smell?
  12. representation of Australian, New Zealand and Sudan born people in Victorian crime statistics
  13. Katter waves Section 44 stick in a 'notice North Queensland' moment
  14. How to beat exam stress
  15. New Caledonia votes to stay with France this time, but independence supporters take heart
  16. Sutra brings a state of grace to the stage
  17. Book: In the name of security
  18. Tinkering can achieve a lot. Politics isn't broken
  19. does Victoria have Australia's highest rate of crime?
  20. How to tackle NZ's teacher shortage and better reflect student diversity
  21. Some diseases, like mine, deteriorate rapidly – disability services need to keep up
  22. Why do people grow to certain sizes?
  23. How Australian cities are adapting to the Asian Century
  24. The US midterm elections are being billed as a referendum on Trump, but it's not that simple
  25. Dressing up for Melbourne Cup Day, from a racehorse point of view
  26. The great movie scenes: The Matrix and bullet-time
  27. Better data would help crack the drought insurance problem
  28. Bullying and harassment of health workers endangers patient safety
  29. how the pension and super could leave you behind
  30. Stringybark is tough as boots (and gave us the word 'Eucalyptus')
  31. How our red blood cells keep evolving to fight malaria
  32. The Uncomformity festival embraces the power and peculiarity of Tasmania's wild west
  33. Michelle Grattan on Turnbull and Morrison, Shorten's bank idea, and children off Nauru
  34. There's a reason your child wants to read the same book over and over again
  35. How Eurasia's Tianshan mountains set a stage that changed the world
  36. As she prepares to leave politics, Germany's Angela Merkel has left her mark at home and abroad
  37. Anne Summers' new memoir and the bitter struggle over memory narratives of feminism
  38. Australia has eliminated rubella – but that doesn't mean it can't come back
  39. how speculative fiction gained literary respectability
  40. Five projects that are harnessing big data for good
  41. Making developments green doesn’t help with inequality
  42. States and territories have improved integrity measures, but Commonwealth lags far behind
  43. New Caledonia's independence referendum, and how it could impact the region
  44. Seagrass, protector of shipwrecks and buried treasure
  45. Now Malcolm Turnbull is the sniper at the window
  46. What does the future newsroom look like?
  47. Anne Summers on #MeToo and women in politics
  48. Earth’s wilderness is vanishing, and just a handful of nations can save it
  49. Tick-tock – for healthy mums and kids, dad’s age counts
  50. Abolish stamp duty. The ACT shows the rest of us how to tax property

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