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Schools can’t tackle child literacy levels alone – it takes a village

  • Written by: Catherine Wade, Principal Research Specialist, Parenting Research Centre
Schools can’t tackle child literacy levels alone – it takes a villageMore than half of children under two and nearly half of children aged three to five are not being read to every day at home. Shutterstock

The recently released NAPLAN 2017 results and findings from the latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) have got Australia talking again about how our children are faring when it comes to...

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For women fighting the gender pay gap discrimination law is limited

  • Written by: Alice Orchiston, Associate Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney
For women fighting the gender pay gap discrimination law is limitedSenior journalist Carrie Gracie (right) found she was being paid less than her male colleagues at the BBC.Joi Ito/Flickr, CC BY-SA

If women discover they are earning less than their male counterparts for the same jobs, their legal avenues for pursuing equal pay are limited. It’s difficult to prove and costly to litigate.

The federal Sex...

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AquaSonic merges science and art in an underwater symphony

  • Written by: Diana Blom, Associate Professor, Music, Western Sydney University
AquaSonic merges science and art in an underwater symphonyMusicians perform underwater in AquaSonic at the Sydney Festival. Jamie Williams

Many composers – Handel, Debussy and Tan Dun to name a few – have drawn on water to inspire their music. But Denmark’s Between Music performs music in and under water. Their show, AquaSonic, performed as part of the Sydney Festival, is an hour of new,...

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Explainer: 'bomb cyclones' – the intense winter storms that hit the US (and Australia too)

  • Written by: Acacia Pepler, Research Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

The eastern United States experienced a very severe winter storm last week, which caused damaging winds, heavy snow and the highest tide on record for Boston. Meteorologists call this type of storm a “bomb cyclone”, or simply a “bomb”. But what is it?

A “bomb” is an old meteorological term for a low-pressure...

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