The health benefits of being close to nature are well established. priscilla du preez/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Danica-Lea Larcombe, Edith Cowan University The number of Australians living in high-rise apartments doubled between 1991 and 2011 and that trend has continued since then. The quarter-acre dream is fast disappearing and larger blocks […]
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Bushfires showed we’re only ever one step from system collapse Australian Navy Anthony Richardson, RMIT University This summer’s bushfires were not just devastating events in themselves. More broadly, they highlighted the immense vulnerability of the systems which make our contemporary lives possible. The fires cut road access, which meant towns […]
Novel coronavirus – be aware of the symptoms, be wary of false reports
NSW Health is asking the public to be wary of false and misleading rumours, posts on social media and inaccurate reports regarding the spread of novel coronavirus in NSW. NSW Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant said there have been multiple incorrect and alarmist social media posts regarding the spread […]
How effective is the pill?
If you take the pill ‘perfectly’, it’s 99.5% effective, but most women don’t. from www.shutterstock.com Deborah Bateson, University of Sydney and Kathleen McNamee, Monash University About one-third of people using contraception use the pill. But how effective is it? There are two types of contraceptive pill – the combined pill, […]
Zaproszenie do polskiej szkoły w Ashfield/Invitation to the Polish language school in Ashfield
Z początkiem roku szkolnego wielu rodziców polskiego pochodzenia zastanawia się, czy wysłać swoje dzieci do polskiej szkoły. Jedni uważają to za możliwość zdobycia pożytecznej wiedzy, inni za stratę pieniędzy, bo “od przekazywania wartości jest dom”. Czy na pewno? Istotnie dom jest od przekazywania wartości. Nikt z tym nie dyskutuje. Jednak […]
Did they see it coming?
How fortune-telling took hold in Australia – with women as clients and criminals Though illegal, fortune telling was only sporadically prosecuted. Here, two women set up tents at the 1913 Adelaide Children’s Hospital fete. State Library of SA Alana Piper, University of Technology Sydney In the first decade of the […]
COMMUNITY LANGUAGES MULTICULTURAL GRANTS STREAM TWO NOW OPEN
Stream two of the Community Languages Multicultural Grants program is now open. The grants are part of the Australian Government’s commitment to provide $10 million over two years to community language schools to help young Australians learn another language. Through stream two, community language schools can apply for funding of […]
Polska zbiórka na rzecz odbudowy Parku Narodowego Kościuszki
W związku z pożarami trawiącymi Australię, Ambasada RP w Canberze i Ambasada Australii w Warszawie otrzymują z Polski oraz od Polonii w Australii wiele wyrazów solidarności oraz zgłoszeń gotowości niesienia pomocy. Dlatego, z inspiracji obu Ambasad, Fundacja Parków Narodowych i Dzikiej Przyrody (Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife, FNPW) uruchomiła […]
‘Helicopter parenting’ and ‘tiger mothers’? Relax, Australian kids are alright
Australian children’s rights are taken much more seriously now than in previous generations. Shutterstock Carla Pascoe Leahy, University of Melbourne It would be easy to believe, if you pay attention to the media, that Australian children are in poor shape. Kids, we are told, have too much screen time, too […]
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