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how to stop your bathers flooding the oceans with plastic

  • Written by: Natalie Welden, Research Associate: Marine Pollution / Ecotoxicology / Microplastics, University of Portsmouth
how to stop your bathers flooding the oceans with plasticSustainable swimwear shopping means that you don't have to worry about the sea soaking in plastic from your bathers while you soak in the sun!www.shutterstock.com

Shopping can be confusing at the best of times, and trying to find environmentally friendly options makes it even more difficult. Our Sustainable Shopping series asks experts to provide...

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Child protection report lacks crucial national detail on abuse in out-of-home care

  • Written by: Katherine McFarlane, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Law & Justice, Charles Sturt University
Child protection report lacks crucial national detail on abuse in out-of-home careAround 40% of children in out-of-home care have been there for five years or more.www.shutterstock.com

UNDER EMBARGO TIL FRI MORN, PLS DO NOT PUBLISH YET

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released a new report showing that one in 32 Australian children received child protection services in 2016-17, with 74% being repeat clients.

The...

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We need to support more men to become primary teachers

  • Written by: Dr Ian Davis SFHEA, Lecturer - Scholarship of Learning and Teaching, Queensland University of Technology
We need to support more men to become primary teachersCurrently, only 10% of teachers in primary education are male.Shutterstock

Australia is facing a crisis within primary education: there will not be enough teachers to educate the booming population of children coming through.

A report commissioned by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) predicts we will need 443 more primary...

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The one thing holding back an RBA rate cut

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: what is the new normal for economic growth? And why the RBA is still waiting to raise rates.

In a...

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  9. how the language you speak influences your willingness to take climate action
  10. Enjoyment of reading, not mechanics of reading, can improve literacy for boys
  11. RBA research shows that zoning restrictions are driving up housing prices
  12. If sugar is so bad for us, why is the sugar in fruit OK?
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  17. To achieve gender equality, we must first tackle our unconscious biases
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  20. Sexism needs to be challenged in schools, not just workplaces
  21. What writers and publishers must learn from the Deadly Woman Blues fiasco
  22. wildness, art and biophilic design
  23. How the government can pay for its proposed company tax cuts
  24. the "X factor" in the South Australian election
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  26. why supermarkets are moving away from price
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