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Five tips to help you make the most of reading to your children

  • Written by: Margaret Kristin Merga, Senior Lecturer in Education, Curtin University
Five tips to help you make the most of reading to your childrenReading aloud to children can encourage a love of reading.Shutterstock

Reading to your child is one of the most successful ways of instilling a love of reading in them. But in our recent study, more than one-quarter of primary-school-aged respondents claimed they were never read to at home.

Children typically enjoy being read to, and see...

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Drug use can have social benefits, and acknowledging this could improve rehabilitation

  • Written by: Jennifer Power, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
Drug use can have social benefits, and acknowledging this could improve rehabilitationYoung people have reported cultural gains from drug use, such as strengthening social ties and gaining access to social networks.from www.shutterstock.com

Illicit drug use is often framed in terms of risk and antisocial or criminal behaviour. But drug use is often a highly social activity. For many people, the pleasure of using drugs is about...

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Australia is one of the world's best places to retire, or is it?

  • Written by: Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW
Australia is one of the world's best places to retire, or is it?Happiness in retirement isn't the same for everyone.Tom Carmony/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Australia is ranked in the top third of countries in almost all indices measuring the best countries to retire, according to our analysis of nine separate ageing and retirement indices.

The problem is, experts contriving such indices can’t agree about which...

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how the First Fleet got a first taste of Australia's unforgiving climate

  • Written by: Joelle Gergis, ARC DECRA Climate Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
how the First Fleet got a first taste of Australia's unforgiving climateThe British First Fleet knew little of conditions in Port Jackson, later Sydney Cove, before their arrival.George Edwards Peacock, State Library of New South Wales.

The women screamed as the huge waves crashed loudly on the wooden deck. Horrified, they watched the foaming torrent wash away their blankets. Many dropped to their knees, praying for...

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  1. Victoria's sperm donor laws yield some surprises, but mostly happy ones
  2. In Open Cut exhibition, protest art challenges visitors to take action
  3. can two chickens hatch out of a double-yolk egg?
  4. Breaking the shackles of the national mindset in a polarised world
  5. Tim Storer – the $35 billion dollar man
  6. Australia's digital divide is not going away
  7. a bold experiment exploring female voices constricted by trauma
  8. Art Gallery SA goes back to Impressionism's colourful roots with masterpieces from Musee d'Orsay
  9. Is psychiatry ready for medical MDMA?
  10. Brain-zapping, the curious case of the n-rays and other stories of evidence
  11. Monsters in my closet – how a geographer began mining myths
  12. Can the cricketers banned for ball tampering ever regain their hero status? It's happened before
  13. views from NSW and SA
  14. Is Truvada (PrEP) the game-changer that will end new HIV transmissions in Australia?
  15. he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here's why that matters
  16. Islamic State schooled children as soldiers – how can their 'education' be undone?
  17. Online conspiracy theorists are more diverse (and ordinary) than most assume
  18. The BOM outlook for the weather over the next three months is 'neutral' – here's what that really means
  19. Daylight saving can boost the economy but Australia needs to make it uniform
  20. With China's space station about to crash land, who's responsible if you get hit by space junk?
  21. save the world, one chocolate at a time
  22. How the internet is reshaping World Heritage and our experience of it
  23. land degradation is turning soils into deserts
  24. Senate newcomer Tim Storer plays hardball on company tax
  25. John Blaxland on Australia's expulsion of Russian spies
  26. Why family violence leave should be paid
  27. Queensland has saved a Hollywood blockbuster, but the local film industry is still missing out
  28. Victorian drug law reform recommendations are welcome – but must include prisoners
  29. How complementary medicine practitioners can help get kids vaccinated
  30. Not everyone can say #MeToo and we need to tackle the causes of sexual violence
  31. why does lemon juice lighten the colour of tea?
  32. Curious Kids: Why are we ticklish?
  33. the City of Sydney's efforts to increase the affordable housing supply
  34. Private health insurance premium increases explained in 14 charts
  35. Do you really need private health insurance? Here's what you need to know before deciding
  36. Why Europe shouldn't follow Australia's lead on asylum seekers
  37. China’s falling space station highlights the problem of space junk crashing to Earth
  38. What happens when companies remove expiry dates on gift cards?
  39. With affection and humour, Patricia Piccinini probes the boundaries of human and other
  40. Africa's great migrations are failing but there is a solution
  41. Government defers company tax cut vote for want of numbers
  42. Is counter-attack justified against a state-sponsored cyber attack? It's a legal grey area
  43. The West increases pressure with diplomatic expulsions, but Russia is unlikely to cave
  44. Why schools become battlegrounds during conflict
  45. Start resetting your kids' body clocks before daylight saving ends – here's how
  46. Australia would be better if we'd heeded Pauline Hanson's message more: Tony Abbott
  47. Rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment: what’s the difference?
  48. What governments can learn from Perth's property market
  49. Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits as your own
  50. Australia expels two Russian spies as part of international push against Russia

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DIY Rodent Control Vs Professional Help: When Is It Time To Call The Experts?

Rodents are one of the most frustrating pest problems for Australian property owners. Rats and mic...

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