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How games can inform, educate and raise awareness

Using fun elements such as challenges, goals and rewards, games are playing a significant role in learning, lifestyle management and disease awareness.

The battle to reduce road deaths

In the move to a more sustainable and safer future, tackling road accident injuries and fatalities will require a more concerted effort.

The ‘scamdemic’ affecting everyone

Cyber scams are rising globally, targeting the vulnerable, especially youth. Understanding tactics and regional efforts is key to a safer cyberspace.

Malaysia’s childfree choices challenge Islamic norms

The rise of childfree marriages has led to heated debate, especially among Malays. This reflects the deep religious influence on Malaysia’s public discourse.

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The vocabulary of our ecological discontent

New words that seek to express human emotions about the parlous state of our planet are going mainstream.

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Why Australian students need to learn about Southeast Asia – and its languages

Australia is keen to engage with its nearest neighbours in Southeast Asia, but is backsliding on learning the region’s languages.

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ASEAN: Everyone needs good neighbours

Looking ahead to next 50 years of the ASEAN-Australia partnership.

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Australian wildfires: is the term ‘bushfire’ out of date?

Fires are changing so does that mean the way we refer to them should too? It could soon be a hot topic.

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Can we afford to lose any more languages?

The very regions richest in languages are the ones most at risk of climate-induced language loss.

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How climate change is killing languages

Forced migration is a major cause of language extinction. Environmental disasters are driving these displacements in the very regions richest in languages.

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Cyclone-proofing Vanuatu’s language records

Vanuatu’s rampaging cyclones are the latest extreme event to threaten the country’s cultural records. A digitisation project could be key to protecting them.

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Tsunami pushes native language to the brink

The displacement of communities due to climate change can have unexpected impacts on the language landscape of a region.

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Partition lives on in north-east Indian literature

The refugee as ‘other’ has emerged as a common theme in literature from India’s north-east, after the region saw an influx of people following 1947’s Partition.

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Language barriers

English has become the dominant language used across global business, science, diplomacy and the internet, but it creates an unfair advantage.

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How games can inform, educate and raise awareness

The battle to reduce road deaths

The ‘scamdemic’ affecting everyone

Malaysia’s childfree choices challenge Islamic norms

Why Australian students need to learn about Southeast Asia – and its languages

ASEAN: Everyone needs good neighbours

Australian wildfires: is the term ‘bushfire’ out of date?

Can we afford to lose any more languages?

How climate change is killing languages

Cyclone-proofing Vanuatu’s language records

Tsunami pushes native language to the brink

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