Buying Apartment vs House: 3 Tips to Consider
If you're looking to buy a property in Australia, you might need to decide between an apartment vs house. Learn some tips for making your decision. About 67% of Australians own their own home. Twen...
Sarah Williams
6 tips to travel more in 2020
How many times in a year do you think that you would like to travel more and how many times did you stay home because of the thoughts "I don't have...", "I can't...", "not now..."? Don't be afraid, ...
News Company
How to stay productive while working at home
Advancing technology and increased connections have meant that many people can now work from home and still achieve the results they want. The allure of escaping the daily commute and getting to sle...
Chris Howard
'Stupid coronavirus!' In uncertain times, we can help children through mindfulness and play
Shutterstock“Stupid coronavirus!” I heard my six-year-old mumble while talking in her sleep. Earlier that day her swimming and basketball lessons were cancelled, a birthday party postponed...
Ben Deery, Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, University of Melbourne
'Zoombombers' want to troll your online meetings. Here's how to stop them
StanWilliams/Pixabay, Author provided“Zoombombing” in case you haven’t heard, is the unsavoury practice of posting distressing comments, pictures or videos after gatecrashing virtual...
David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
Can I visit my boyfriend or my parents? Go fishing or bushwalking? Coronavirus rules in the Northern Territory and Tasmania
ShutterstockEditor’s note: The following is current as at April 3, 2020. Things are changing quickly so best to keep an eye on the latest information from the NT government, the Tasmanian govern...
Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling
Can I visit my boyfriend or my parents? Go fishing or bushwalking? Coronavirus rules in Western Australia
Shutterstock/IncEditor’s note: The following is current as at April 3, 2020. Things are changing quickly so best to keep an eye on the latest information from WA Health, as well as the federal g...
Michael Lund, Commissioning Editor, The Conversation
What does the coronavirus pandemic sound like? The voices of people struggling, secluding and surviving around the world
What does the COVID-19 pandemic sound like?For this episode, Dallas Rogers – a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney – asked academ...
Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling
Australia's telcos, banks and supermarkets granted exemption to cartel laws
Shutterstock“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion,” wrote Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (published in 1776), “but the conversation en...
Sven Gallasch, Lecturer in Law, Swinburne University of Technology
Young people are anxious about coronavirus. Political leaders need to talk with them, not at them
ShutterstockYoung people in Australia are among the fastest-growing group to contract COVID19. According to the Department of Health, there are now more cases in Australia among people aged 20 –…
Sleep won't cure the coronavirus but it can help our bodies fight it
ShutterstockGetting a good night’s sleep can be difficult at the best of times. But it can be even harder when you’re anxious or have something on your mind – a global pandemic, for …
Can I visit my boyfriend? My parents? Go fishing or bushwalking? Coronavirus rules in the ACT and South Australia explained
Flickr/Chris Fithall, CC BYEditor’s note: this article adds to the information we already published for New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, and we will endeavour to update with information…
This lizard lays eggs and gives live birth. We think it's undergoing a major evolutionary transition
Nicholas Wu, Author providedOur earliest vertebrate (animals with backbones) ancestors laid eggs, but over millions of years of evolution, some species began to give birth to live young. There is a tr…
Vale Bruce Dawe, Australia's 'Poet of Suburbia'
Lennon Cheng/Unsplash, CC BY“Katrina, I had in mind a prayer, but only this came,” Bruce Dawe wrote to his infant daughter, new-born, in intensive care, her life in the balance, declaring …
While we fixate on coronavirus, Earth is hurtling towards a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction
Pixabay At several points in the history of our planet, increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have caused extreme global warming, prompting the majority of species on Earth to die out…
the simple technology that could help stop coronavirus spreading
ShutterstockNew research the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that SARS CoV 2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19 coronavirus, is more stable on plastic and stainless steel than on car…
mom jeans and nostalgia in a time of uncertainty
Jornada Produtora/Unsplash, CC BYTimes of instability and crisis produce increased nostalgia for the past. We long for a time that no longer exists, or never existed. Like melancholy, nostalgia is a s…
Thanks to coronavirus, Scott Morrison will become a significant prime minister
One of Australia’s preeminent historians, Stuart Macintyre, once observed of John Curtin, the Labor Party leader revered for navigating this nation through the dangers of the second world war, t…
Scott Morrison is steering in the right direction, but we're going to need a bigger boat
The Australian government’s JobKeeper wage subsidy, estimated to cost A$130 billion, is a crucial measure to help keep the economy from completely cratering.But, even if COVID-19 is sufficiently…
It is necessary to worry about health, but pessimism about the economy will hurt us
ShutterstockDuring this pandemic, our twin health and economic crises require two different types of concern, and they operate differently.For the health crisis, a high level of concern is necessary. …
Imagine if we could extract a permanent vaccine against hyper-partisanship from COVID-19
As the COVID-19 transforms our individual lives, we are learning a few new things about ourselves as a society.We’ve known Australians suspect authority and, like other Western countries, have c…
Where are we at with developing a vaccine for coronavirus?
ShutterstockSARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is changing how we live. With a rapid increase in cases, we are now isolating in our homes to “flatten the curve”. However, it will …
