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How can you keep kids off screens during the winter holidays?

If you feel your toy cupboard is looking overly familiar, try a local Toy Library to borrow puzzles, board games and activities.

Holiday playdates are great for kids – but ditch the stress and don’t compare milestones

Play can support children’s executive functions, meaning the mental skills we use when we think flexibly, use our memory and practise self-control.

Parents dive into surf safety after tragedy strikes school community

With 95% of its students coming from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds—groups overrepresented in Australia’s drowning statistics—the initiative has already started making waves.

Will we have a COVID wave, spike or blip this Christmas? It depends where you live

Estimates suggest XEC has risen from 10% to 60% of circulating SARS-CoV-2 in the past two months.

Australian workers hoard more than 160 million days of untaken leave. So could you be forced to take a break?

More than one in five employees (22%) had accrued more than four weeks, with older workers having higher averages than their younger colleagues.

Passengers urged to behave responsibly and avoid suspicious behaviour at airports

“People who are unruly on aircraft should understand that this may mean they will not be allowed to travel and will impact their family holiday plans and also impact fellow passengers.” 

How to keep your home safe from burglars during holidays?

All burglars we’ve interviewed have reported not liking dogs, alarms, neighbours or anyone who could potentially identify them.

How to set up a kids’ art studio at home and learn to love the mess

It’s important to give your child the opportunity to make a mess in order to discover new possibilities, generate ideas and think through materials.

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Albanese government under fire after ISIS brides and childern granted passports and attempted to returns

The incident has triggered alarm after it emerged that Australian passports had already been issued to the group

‘Just as offensive’: Julian Hill condemns Jacinta Price as she returns to frontbench without apology over Indian migration remarks

"Jacinta Price’s comments about Australians of Indian heritage were wrong and are just as offensive today as they were the first time she said them.”

ACT Premier Andrew Barr calls India ‘priority partner’ as Australia’s ‘knowledge capital’ eyes tourism and international students

“This mission is about building on that partnership so that Indian students, visitors and investors continue to see Canberra as a place where they can study, visit, invest and build a future.”
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