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Phenomenom is a fresh approach to food education, feat. videos and free teaching resources for Year 3, 4, 5 & 6, aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

They're supposed to be taking over. So where are all the electric cars? - Australian Renewable...

It argued the Bush administration conspired with Big Oil and car manufacturers to quite literally crush the electric vehicle revolution just as it was gaining speed. Boy have things changed. More than a decade later some of the world's biggest car companies are racing into an electric future.

New Australian breakthrough - Australian Renewable Energy Agency

The breakthrough equipment promises to revolutionise how renewable energy feeds into the electricity grid, providing far greater stability and allowing more renewable energy to be used. "This new Australian-led technology will not only create a new innovation we can export to the world but will also benefit our whole electricity system by giving us greater visibility over our distribution networks and allowing for more variable renewable energy," ARENA Chief Executive Ivor Frischknecht said.

Risky business - the hot spots that burn software developers - KJR

The challenges faced when building software can be hard to define. Unlike tackling an Ikea flat-pack or building a bridge, progress can be unclear and problems often aren't recognised until it's too late. Collaborative, adaptable approaches have been proven to ... Continued

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GOING PHONELESS: MY WEEKEND WITHOUT APPS

Inspired by SkynFeel, our technology that's designed to bring you closer together, we're giving you the chance to get back in touch with intimacy. Join SkynFeel here to enter the draw to win a boutique hotel stay - we're giving away one £500 Mr and Mrs Smith gift card each week for the duration of the campaign.

Old School: Four 1980s arcade titles that changed the game

Suddenly, all the gridlocked commuters and buckled-up kids were set free. You didn't need access to a Porsche (or a lawyer), just a few coins or a console at home (if you were lucky) and a need for speed. Here are four of the most influential, or at least unique, games of the decade.

Dungeons & Dragons in lockdown: as my universe contracts, this game expands whole worlds

The novels I've been meaning to read are still on the shelf, and the puzzle of Northern Italy I started is back in its box. The puzzle was supposed to be mediative, and a little bit poetic because they're having such a hard time over there, but I didn't even connect all the edges.

Isol-Aid and the limits of post-capitalist 'connectivity'

Twenty years after Live Aid, came Live 8. This time Bono et al wanted to tap into the global anti-capitalism movement and convince the G8 to tackle poverty through legislation. Now Isol-Aid is here as the final evolution of the concept. The fantasy that popstars can save the world is on hold.

'The Cultural Poetics of Dark MOFO: music is the answer... but...wait, what was the question...

By the final Night Mass party I'd had enough. After ten days in Hobart I was physically wrecked, emotionally rinsed and generally overstimulated. I didn't want to spend one more second getting shoved around the dance floor by wasted people or trying to decode the meaning of the Moo Brew-sponsored death metal jumping castle.

How To Make The Most Of 48 Hours In Colombo, Sri Lanka

If you're travelling to Sri Lanka, chances are you haven't blocked out much time to check out the capital. The first thing you'll want to do is collapse on a coastal banana lounge or stick your face out a train window to feel the wind in your hair as jungles, mountains and tea fields cascade in and out of view.

graffiti is still fighting gentrification with destruction

When I was 15 in the early 2000s my friends and I used to bomb trains. I remember stealing Posca pens, emptying out the fluorescent paint then filling them up with a mixture of stamp ink and my mum's nail polish remover. The acetone mixed with ink to form a liquid no amount of chemical cleaning could remove.

Meredith Music Festival's Activist Heart is an Illusion (and That's Okay)

Naomi Beveridge & Steve Benn Way Out West is a column where Melbourne-based writer and cultural critic Sam West thinks (a lot) about music-related stuff, and life in general. The name of the column comes from an old trance song Sam likes. Read more Way Out West here.

'The Art of Banksy' Exhibition Says More About Banksy Than Banksy Ever Could

This is the perfect eulogy for Banksy's anti-establishment message. The best angle I could come up with to cover Melbourne's new Banksy exhibition was to break in and tag the place up. That's what one of the hooded truth-speakers in his stencils would do.

SLAPPER

Taylah is a rebellious, destitute teen from rural Australian suburbia. After a brief sexual encounter, Taylah must scrape together money for the morning-after pill, before it's too late. As she hustles for the cash, Taylah is also stuck babysitting a wild and uncooperative five-year-old, Vegas.