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Play is all in a day's work
Susanne North Unstructured, unsupervised fun could be more beneficial for your child's future than you realise.
Hat's off to frock and awe
Charles Waterstreet PING pong was merely a game that Asians played better than anyone else until Stephan Elliott showed the world the secret behind their fast balls in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Novak loses spot in centre court to the iron ore lady
John Huxley Bleary-eyed after a late, late night at the TV tennis, Australia finally stumbled back to business. Big time.
Why women are still keeping score
Clem Bastow Something about a new year seems to inspire us to take stock and indulge in a little soul-searching: what did we do wrong last year? What are we going to do about it this year? When Australia Day...
A generous serve of point-scoring over baseline economics. Tennis anyone?
Tim Colebatch Economists will always disagree over the same set of figures.
Why we should always work out who calls the shots
Leslie Cannold "LOOK for the power." I don't know if this was the first lesson my sociology professor taught me but it's the one I most remember.
From Coke to water, now on tracks
Heath Aston THE removal of Sydney Ferries boss David Callahan by the state government last week barely created a ripple.
No stone left unpunished
Harriet Sherwood THE room is barely wider than the thin, dirty mattress that covers the floor. Behind a low concrete wall is a squat toilet, the stench from which has no escape in the windowless room.
Twitter can be a saviour in a crisis
Kate Crawford This time last year Queenslanders were cleaning up after the worst flooding in recent memory. For those of us outside the flood zone, we were horrified by the pictures of Toowoomba and Brisbane under...
Social inclusion means our services work together to help vulnerable people
Kasy Chambers The return of the Social Inclusion portfolio to cabinet has been an opportunity for critics to attack the government's Social Inclusion Unit and its board, as well as the idea itself.
The proof is in the heating - solar's shining success story
Martin Green Something extraordinary happened to the German national power grid during the pleasantly mild early weeks of last summer.
What's left when the party's over?
David Humphries As a lot, dentists are more talkers than listeners, their audience captive and muted. Perhaps that's why they couldn't sit still in their seats at a dental convention in Sydney almost 30 years ago,...
Nuclear reaction to house prices
Adele Horin Spoilt, lonely, selfish ... the only child is a figure much pitied and criticised. When parents are weighing up the decision to have a second child, the spectre of the demanding, self-absorbed and...
This will wipe the smile off anyone's Facebook
Richard Glover Here's a list of The 20 Worst Facebook Faux Pas, only half of which have been committed by me.
No need to blush - public schooling can be first step on road to success
Jennifer Star As a well-rounded young Australian, there is one question I am often asked that never fails to kill a conversation. ''What school did you go to?''
Biggest losers from TV obesity cures are gullible viewers
Nina Funnell and Dannielle Miller If Christmas is the time to be merry and binge, then the New Year is the time to focus and fast. January is when the highly lucrative weight-loss industry ramps up its seductive promise that if we...
Peak oil can fuel a change for the better
Samuel Alexander The advent of peak oil means we should prepare for a downscaling of our highly energy and resource-intensive lifestyles.
Wait and the right name will appear in the frame
John McDonald As a man walked down the aisle towards his bride-to-be, the best man whispered to him: ''You are making the biggest mistake of your life.'' Within a few months those words had rung true.
Strata fear and loathing: time to stick by rules
Jimmy Thomson The chance to participate in the most profound changes to strata law since its creation 50 years ago is open to the public … or it could be just more smoke and mirrors in an area of governance that...
Stretched to charitable extremes
Adele Horin When Amy Winehouse's father, Mitch, announced at his daughter's funeral he intended to set up a charity in her name, the rehab experts cried "No, no no".
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