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Christopher Scanlon is a writer and commentator who has written features, essays, opinion and review articles on topics as diverse as Twilight to the bleak outlook for the world’s 6000 languages.

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2017 ATAR results: the growing disconnect between VCE and university entrance

The Victorian Certificate of Education turned 25 this year. After a quarter of a century, and with the class of 2017 awaiting their ATARs this week, is it time for a rethink?

We've turned Anzac Day into another consumerist binge-fest thumbnail
We’ve turned Anzac Day into another consumerist binge-fest

Banks and utilities are grooming us to be easy targets for cyber criminals thumbnail
Banks and utilities are grooming us to be easy targets for cyber criminals
Happiness™ thumbnail
Happiness™
Why I don't call my daughter 'Princess' thumbnail
Why I don’t call my daughter ‘Princess’
The one thing all dads can do to boost their daughter's ambition thumbnail
The one thing all dads can do to boost their daughter’s ambition

We're all The Walking Dead: how would other countries deal with the zombie apocalypse? thumbnail

We’re all The Walking Dead: how would other countries deal with the zombie apocalypse?

The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes and his ‘family’ are the embodiment of dog-eat-dog capitalism. Would other societies have fared better in the zombie apocalypse?

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How my eating disorder changes the way I parent my children

The numbers don’t have it: why measuring won’t lead to better health thumbnail
The numbers don’t have it: why measuring won’t lead to better health
In praise of partisanship: Triggs is on the side of human rights thumbnail
In praise of partisanship: Triggs is on the side of human rights

Five hard question every dad should prepare themselves to answer thumbnail
Five hard question every dad should prepare themselves to answer

Online vs face-to-face learning: why can’t we have both? thumbnail

Online vs face-to-face learning: why can’t we have both?

People argue over whether learning should take place online or face-to-face, but does it have to be one or the other?

I have daughters and I don’t want you to feel sorry for me thumbnail
I have daughters and I don’t want you to feel sorry for me

Wired for happiness? Evolutionary psychology falls short of science thumbnail
Wired for happiness? Evolutionary psychology falls short of science
Bogans and hipsters: we’re talking the living language of class thumbnail
Bogans and hipsters: we’re talking the living language of class

Australia Day: is nationalism really so bad? thumbnail
Australia Day: is nationalism really so bad?
How should men act around children? thumbnail
How should men act around children?
Giving it away for free: sharing really is caring in the open education movement thumbnail
Giving it away for free: sharing really is caring in the open education movement
This is what good parenting looks like thumbnail
This is what good parenting looks like
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