Mistakes To Avoid When Choosing Your Tasmanian Vacation Accommodation
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If you are planning on spending your next vacation in Tasmania, then you must have heard a lot about Hobart and you have probably done your own research on the capital of Tasmania and the things it has to offer to tourists. You certainly wouldn’t decide to go somewhere on the spur of the mom...
Bonus Codes for Online Pokies
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If you are looking at playing online pokies in Australia, start with Pokie Place Australia. You might have the best luck there and you will definitely appreciate all the bonus codes that are available on this website. A relatively new casino, Pokie Place accepts players from all over Australia...
ASIC chair James Shipton steps aside after adverse finding by Auditor-General
Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
James Shipton, chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, has stood aside after an adverse Audit Office report about $118,557 paid by ASIC on his behalf when he relocated from the US.The Audit Office also found payments of $69,621 for deputy chairman Daniel Crennan, to reloca...
Children may need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 too. Here's what we need to consider
Ketaki Sharma, PhD student, University of Sydney
ShutterstockAn ideal COVID-19 vaccine would not only protect people from becoming ill, it would also stop the virus spreading through the population. The best way to do this is to vaccinate as many people as possible. If the best available vaccine is only moderately protective — for example, i...
how Queensland fell in love with Australian Rules football again
Steve Georgakis, Senior Lecturer of Pedagogy and Sports Studies, University of Sydney
Darren England/AAPThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions to all major sports in Australia, but perhaps the most fascinating — and unlikely — change is the playing of the AFL grand final in Brisbane. When most Australians think of sports preferences by state, AFL natural...
is this the future of inequality?
Matthew Finch, Adjunct Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
ShutterstockImagine visiting the Europe of 2048. The cities are strangely silent. Desperate communities in Paris, London and Berlin struggle in the shadow of hollowed-out buildings. The once-popular coastal resorts have also been abandoned, as rises in sea level have taken their toll. Heading out to...
Ultimate tips for YouTube marketing
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There are countless opportunities on YouTube. Some of the marketers believe that YouTube is social media while others believe that it’s only a video platform. After adding images option, YouTube decided to go the social media route. Still, YouTube is the biggest video marketing tool that we ha...
Lessons from Jacinda Ardern's New Zealand reelection
The recent reelection of the Jacinda Ardern-led Labour government in New Zealand offers leaders elsewhere a potent lesson about how best to respond to COVID-19. Saving l…
why we need children's life stories like I Am Greta
When a young celebrity writes a memoir or has a biography written about them, a common response is: they are too young. This child or adolescent cannot possibly have liv…
Asian countries do aged care differently. Here's what we can learn from them
ShutterstockThis article is part of our series on aged care. You can read the other articles in the series here.Unlike in Western countries like Australia, traditional A…
10 tips for hosting a COVID-safe wedding
ShutterstockSpring and summer in Australia and the gradual easing of restrictions means we can expect weddings, with more guests, back on the calendar.However, any weddi…
Japan plans to dump a million tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific. But Australia has nuclear waste problems, too
The Japanese government recently announced plans to release into the sea more than 1 million tonnes of radioactive water from the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi nucl…
Google's huge market share doesn't automatically make it a monopoly
shutterstockThis week the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a lawsuit accusing Google of using “anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its m…
Why equal health access and outcomes should be a priority for Ardern's new government
Shutterstock/ChameleonsEyeNew Zealand’s public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic may be the envy of the world, but as the new government looks ahead, potent…
