Relative to other careers, bright students who were surveyed didn't see teaching as coming with career challenges. www.shutterstock.comAustralia’s young high achievers are turning their backs on teaching. They want to make a difference in their careers, and they are interested in teaching, but when it comes to the crunch they choose...
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Relative to other careers, bright students who were surveyed didn't see teaching as coming…
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Priz…
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Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDAfter months of increasing tension between Iran and…
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Australia will commit a frigate, an aircraft and some headquarters staff to a US-led opera…
A parent's attention is gold to a child, and even negative attention is better than none.p…
Australia will commit a frigate, an aircraft and some headquarters staff to an American-le…
Populism and environmentalism are words seldom seen in the same sentence. One is associate…
George Pell's appeal on child sexual abuse convictions has been dismissed.AAP/Erik Anderso…
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The perception of Jones' power has led to him being courted by politicians, and so wieldin…
There is help available for young refugees who find themselves homeless in Australia, if o…
Research shows the cost of damage through climate change will be much greater than the cos…
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The results of the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics biennial survey of income and we…
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A new report says Australia's universities are too reliant on income from Chinese students…
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'Choose life' was scrawled across the sky last Sunday and again today as abortion legislat…
You might picture a book club around your neighbour’s coffee table, or over beers at…
Many young people see private health insurance as an unnecessary expense.Yuricazac/Shutter…
Most people cry when they're feeling sad, or when they are having big feelings. from www.p…
Mimicking the future.Joe Fontaine, Author providedAs most of the science community knows, …
Most inheritances go to middle-aged Australians who don't need help.ShutterstockInheritanc…
GetUp has been in the Coalition's firing line for a number of years now, which is not surp…
A large bowl or pan thought to have been made in Sydney by the potter Thomas Ball between …
When you're feeling sick, your immune system is fighting to get you well again.www.shutter…
The rise in sea levels is not the only way climate change will affect the coasts. Our rese…
This morning an Extinction Rebellion protester was arrested after hanging from a rope over…
Dwelling on the past, like writing in a diary, is part of being human and helps us form ou…
Another issue is that pre-polling gives an advantage to the major parties over the smaller…
Donald Glover is the showrunner on Atlanta, 'perhaps the most curious credit in the histor…
Committing poetry to memory is so much more than a rote exercise.Taylor Ann Wright/Unsplas…
Eating disorders disproportionately affect females and young people.From shutterstock.comL…
Morrison describes the “the bacon and eggs principle" where "the chicken is involved…
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has issued a timetable for the government’s dealing with t…
The avocado latte is indeed a thing, but young Australians are spending less on luxuries t…
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu.A…
The Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tuvalu this week has ended in open division over clim…
Even in death, the voice of Carl Williams is louder than that of his victims. Intimate pri…
A surgeon has been committed to stand trial next year in a case involving stealthing, bel…
The butterfly orchid grows beautifully.The Conversation/John DearlarneyThe blotched butter…
If you're depressed, the headlines might tempt you to reach out for a chocolate bar. But d…
The Milky Way: a pattern of stars, or a pattern of gaps?Luke Busellato/Wikimedia Commons, …
Markets know what has happens each time the yield curve turns negative. The idea of rates …
Attraction and retention: the key issues to get more immigrants to settle in regional Aus…
On average, one woman every week is killed in Australia. There needs to be more focus on b…
A Twittter storm erupted after journalist Laura Hayes tweeted the alleged assailant had sh…
Supermarkets may discount junk foods to capitalise on the 'impulse buy'.From shutterstock.…
People have different views when it comes to school uniforms.from shutterstock.comWhether …
Dennis Altman in Santa Cruz California in 1984,Author providedThe years between the gay li…
Connecting with the digital economy is a trickier prospect out here.NGRMG, Author provided…
A UN report released last week found a quarter of the world’s carbon emissions come …
Failure to further strengthen the compulsory super system would be disadvantageous to many…
Beijing has a long-term Hong Kong challenge on its hands, one that in many ways is of its …
The ASX 200 slid 2.9% on Thursday amid less than completely encouraging news at home, and …
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Fire ants like these can give a nasty bite.Shutterstock/SweetCrisisMore than A$400 million…
Domenichino's A Virgin with a Unicorn. Artists of the Middle Ages believed the unicorn cou…
Yesterday, Victorian Parliament finally debated a bill on whether religious ministers shou…
Male (left) and female Heterodoxus spiniger from Borneo.Natural History Museum, London, Au…
Science doesn't appear to support the modern myth that women are super-human multitaskers.…
Pacific leaders don't want to talk about China's rising influence – they want Scott …
