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As little as three squares of chocolate can make dogs sick, warns Susan Hazel Most pet owners know chocolate and dogs don’t mix. Despite this, chocolate poisoning in dogs remains a problem, particularly at Easter and Christmas, as a study in the journal Vet Record showed. Chocolate...

A new TV series explores the journey of dogs, but science is giving us new insights into how we can help our canine friends thrive by Dr Mia Cobb Over the last twenty years, there has been a global explosion of science focused on our best four-legged...

Australia’s largest survey of children’s happiness finds that sleep is a key indicator of wellbeing – but traditional things like reading and pets still make kids smile Andrew Trounson talks to Professor Lisa Gibbs, Chair of the University of Melbourne’s Children’s Lives Initiative What are kids telling...

Going to private school won’t make a difference to your kid’s academic scores, write researchers Sally Larsen. and Alexander Forbes In Australia, around 30% of primary and 40% of secondary school children attend a private, or independent, school. School fees vary widely, depending on the type...

 We have a solution, report researchers Julie Sonnemann  and Rebecca Joiner. Almost all teachers (92%) in our study out today said they don’t have enough time to prepare effectively for classroom teaching – the core of their job. The Grattan Institute surveyed 5,442 Australian teachers and school...

by Karin Hammarberg, Robert Norman and Sarah Lensen In the past two decades there has been a significant rise in IVF clinics worldwide offering costly testing of embryos to make sure they have the right number of chromosomes. The theory is this will improve the chance of...

Don’t fret about buying the ‘right’ toy  for your child, writes Nicola Yelland Besides the new COVID-era concerns about retail supply chains comes the age-old question: what’s the best educational toy to buy for the child (or grandchild) in your life? There’s a vast range of toys...

My daughter started to describe me as disabled long before I was ready to do so myself, writes Shakira Hussein For several years after my diagnosis with remitting-relapsing multiple sclerosis, the most I was prepared to concede was that I had “a potentially disabling disease”, and...

Simon Ryan reports it's just the latest conservative book ban On March 1, 2022, Toby Price, an assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in New Byrum, Mississippi, faced a problem. The reader booked for a Zoom session for 240 grade two students hadn’t shown up....