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Thea van de Mortel, Griffith University In some Australian states, kids have been back on slides, swings and monkey bars for months. But in Victoria, many families are only now getting back to playgrounds, after they were closed for much of the second lockdown. With lots of kids running around, and parents looking on, how [...]
Jill Newby, UNSW Many Melburnians are joyous at the prospect of a return to socialising, as the city regains some old freedoms this week following significantly eased coronavirus restrictions. Social media is teeming with images of people looking ecstatic about the end of lockdown. But in stark contrast to these images, some people might feel [...]
Umesh Sharma & Fiona May COVID-19 has disrupted education systems on a global scale, creating unexpected challenges. Approximately 1.6 billion children around the world have been unable to attend school due to COVID-19 lockdowns, with schools required to make rapid adjustments in the move to online teaching and learning. The pandemic has increased the educational divide [...]
Nick Haslam, University of Melbourne The pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges. Many of us have lost work, gained carer responsibilities and grappled with social isolation. Experts have warned of a looming wave of mental illness as a result. Research suggests they’re largely correct. Surveys in Australia, the UK and the USA point to rates of [...]
Breanna Wright & Fraser Tull Lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic uprooted a lot of our usual routines, and did it twice for those of us in Melbourne. But the ‘great disruption’ has also given birth to new routines. While lockdown one may have been the time for baking bread, language apps, musical instruments and home [...]
Laurien Beane, Australian Catholic University and Anthony Shearer, Australian Catholic University Social distancing during COVID-19 has seen a radical upheaval to the way we work and socialise. But what are the implications for young children? Many children have been uprooted from their places of education and care, and may struggle to understand why their routine [...]
Research report into the link between gambling and intimate partner violence Central Queensland University (CQU) have released a report about the link between gambling and intimate partner violence. This qualitative study investigated the relationship between gambling and violence by men against their female intimate partners. Please disseminate as widely as you can to raise awareness [...]
Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University Students in Australia and around the world have experienced significant challenges this year, including the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters. Globally, as many as one in five young people may experience mental-health problems. These can be exacerbated, or even brought on by, stressful life events including economic pressures related to the [...]
Peter Hurley, Victoria University; David G. Lloyd, University of South Australia and Peter Dawkins, Victoria University Australia should create a national job cadet program to help young people into work, according to a report released today by the Mitchell Institute. In the report, Averting an Escalating Labour Market Crisis for Young People in Australia: A Proposed [...]
Erin Mackenzie, Western Sydney University; Penny Van Bergen, Macquarie University and Roberto H Parada, Western Sydney University Year 12 exams can be stressful at the best of times; this is particularly true for the Class of 2020. Here are five ways parents and carers of Year 12 students preparing for their final exams can support [...]
