How to Get Your Child Into Modelling: 5 Top Tips for Breaking Into the Industry
Adam Jacobs
Modelling, or even just playing pretend modelling, can be a fun and interesting experience for young children. The activity can help boost their self-esteem, which is crucial for self-development and can help them achieve success in life as they continue to grow. A little one’s confidence is su...
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It's despair, not depression, that's responsible for Indigenous suicide
Tim Carey, Professor, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University
A history of dispossession and transgenerational trauma underlie the day-to-day struggles of Indigenous people.from shutterstock.comThis article was written with Rob McPhee, Deputy CEO of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service and co-chair of the Commonwealth-funded Kimberley Aboriginal Suicide Pr...
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Can the Big Bash League's backyard cricket bat flip truly be fair?
Stephen Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Technology Sydney
Would you go 'flats' or 'hills'?Shutterstock/Brian A Jackson Ahead of the start of the 2018-19 Big Bash League season comes news of a radical change that will bring a smile to the faces of backyard cricketers across the country.In a move familiar to everyone who has ever improvised a set of stumps f...
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Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-out
Gregg Müller, Lecturer in Natural History, La Trobe University
John Tann/Flickr, CC BY-SAPeople don’t like parasites. But there’s a local Aussie tree that’s only a little bit parasitic: the native cherry, or cherry ballart.It’s what we call hemiparasitic. It can photosynthesise, but gains extra nutrients by attaching its roots to host pl...
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Women don't speak up over workplace harassment because no one hears them if they do
Women are not reporting workplace harassment even when the behaviour is clearly out of bounds.ShutterstockThere are good reasons why those experiencing sexual harassment…
Some sharks have declined by 92% in the past half-century off Queensland's coast
Scalloped hammerhead entangled in a Queensland shark control net at Magnetic Island, Townsville.Courtesy of Nicole McLachlanThere has been a striking decline in the numb…
How to narrow the gap between Ardern's foreign policy aspirations and domestic debate
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for more kindness in politics. AAP/Mick Tsikas, CC BY-NDNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stands out on th…
How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face
There are about 30,000 refugees in Australia, and just over 200 of them have been able to study at a university.www.shutterstock.comAccessing higher education is critica…
It's not so easy to gain the true measure of things
Some things are just tricky to measure.Flickr/Patty O'Hearn Kickham, CC BYI teach measurement – the quantification of things. Some people think this is the most ob…
