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Australia gets revenge as Bluey conquers the United States

While Australia has undergone Americanisation for many years, one TV show invaded American pop ...  
School lunches, royal tours, foreign wars & the myth of Australia’s classless society

Imprisoning children instead of feeding them, pandering to our royal masters and sacrificing our ...  
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EDITORIAL: School lunches, royal tours, foreign wars and the myth of Australia’s classless society

The notion Australia is a classless society is an utter furphy.  
Truth about Queensland youth crime won't sell papers or promote LNP

Despite the Queensland LNP winning government based on a campaign against the 'youth crime cris ...  
Global youth justice methods a lesson for Australia

Several countries in the world boast successful rehabilitation and reform tactics regarding youth ...  
TikTok addiction: It takes all of 35 minutes

Fourteen U.S. states have filed a lawsuit against TikTok, claiming the video streaming platform ...  
'Adult Crime, Adult Time' in Queensland: LNP direct their anger toward children

An increasingly malevolent LNP, clutching desperately for power in Queensland, take their ster ...  
Denying hungry kids and women’s rights with David Crisafulli et al

There is something wrong with our national priorities if we allow Crisafulli's LNP to prop up ...  
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EDITORIAL: Denying hungry kids and women’s rights with David Crisafulli et al

It takes a special type of hard heart to not only disapprove of an initiative that would help feed ...  
Grieving the loss of a murdered daughter

One of my most challenging assignments was photographing Phyllis Chan as she grieved the loss of ...  
Albanese's move to protect kids from social media 'problematic'

Anthony Albanese's pledge to enforce age limits for the use of social media is a pointless ende ...  
NT kicks off 'opportunity' plan by locking up children and throwing away key

Managing editor Michelle Pini discusses the alacrity with which the incoming Northern Territory ...  
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EDITORIAL: NT kicks off 'opportunity' plan by locking up children and throwing away key

The NT has elected another Country Liberal Party Government. This iteration comes complete with a ...  
POEM: The Road

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
POEM: A letter to the children of tomorrow

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
The next frontier in Australian STEM education: Opportunities in early childhood education

James Deehan, Emma McGarrity and Lena Danaia discuss the impacts of STEM learning in early chil ...  
A literary giant's fall: Alice Munro's Faustian trade-off

Stephen Saunders discusses how a daughter's shocking revelations dismantle the legacy of  ...  
Queensland's answer of more prisons for troubled children is wrong

Instead of trying to rehabilitate and guide troubled youths, Queensland has decided to build more ...  

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