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Valerie Yule

Valerie Yule is a writer and researcher on imagination, literacy and social issues.

Author's website: Oz Ideas

Two resolutions for the whole year
Environment - 9/01/2017 - 20 comments

Save our lawns
Environment - 8/12/2016 - 21 comments

Periods in sociobiology: the status of women and sanitary protection
Health - 13/05/2016 - 2 comments

The West's reliance on Saudi Arabia is ill-judged
International - 18/03/2016 - 5 comments

Can individuals do anything to reduce national carbon emissions?
Environment - 14/01/2016 - 9 comments

What is eugenics?
Law & Liberties - 28/10/2015 - 10 comments

Stop your giving going to waste
Society - 13/10/2015 - 6 comments

Why housework is always too much
Society - 18/09/2015 - 2 comments

Predators and the food chain and preventing the suburban extinction of small native creatures
Environment - 31/08/2015 - 9 comments

History and Mondo Dolls
Education - 20/08/2015 - 47 comments

The Bicycle Syndrome explains why so many civilisations crash - and ours could too
Society - 22/05/2015 - 4 comments

The Alternative Householder
Society - 13/05/2015 - 2 comments

The death specialist
Law & Liberties - 6/05/2015 - 10 comments

Looking forward but heading in reverse
Society - 14/04/2015 - 4 comments

The trubl with spelling
Education - 28/01/2015 - 13 comments

Allah the Compassionate and Merciful
Religion & Spirituality - 21/11/2014 - 91 comments

Five criteria to be a citizen
Society - 6/08/2014 - 18 comments

The price of housing
Nation Building - 25/07/2014 - 38 comments

My desert island books
January 2014 Feature - 10/01/2014 - 7 comments

A no-waste Christmas
Society - 5/12/2013 - 9 comments

Dilemmas in education for parents and society
Education - 6/06/2013 - 7 comments

Making the world safe for predators
Environment - 29/05/2013 - 16 comments

The little things
Education - 6/05/2013

Fantasy economics
Economics - 8/11/2012 - 2 comments

What can we learn from the Olympics and Paralympics?
Sport - 14/09/2012 - 2 comments

Doing something to stop roadkill
Environment - 10/09/2012 - 9 comments

The quality of Australian products
Society - 27/07/2012 - 5 comments

Social reasons for legalising gay marriage
Domestic Politics - 1/06/2012 - 36 comments

Multiculturalism and segregation
Society - 18/04/2012 - 5 comments

Excess is followed by collapse - learning from history
Political Philosophy - 30/03/2012 - 65 comments

Duxes and dunces in Australia
Education - 13/03/2012 - 2 comments

The future of fire in Australia
Environment - 28/02/2012 - 15 comments

Rapid obsolescence as a form of waste
Economics - 3/02/2012 - 6 comments

The effects of violent video games
Media - 19/01/2012 - 7 comments

The curse of the McMansion
Economics - 24/11/2011 - 7 comments

Free trade and fair trade
September 2011 Feature - 19/09/2011 - 11 comments

Bias on ABC Radio National
Media - 6/09/2011 - 38 comments

Climate change at Radio National
Media - 12/08/2011 - 39 comments

Ageing populations need not be disastrous for Western governments
Society - 27/07/2011 - 29 comments

Our age of paradoxes
Society - 31/05/2011 - 5 comments

The Arabian Nights and Muslim beliefs and practices
Religion & Spirituality - 4/05/2011

How puny are you?
Environment - 8/04/2011 - 19 comments

Unnecessary costs of the elderly
Society - 31/03/2011 - 13 comments

Australian consumers, and our floods and cyclones
Economics - 9/02/2011

Challenges and responses to disasters
Nation Building - 19/01/2011 - 1 comment

Spare that tree: the arithmetic of supply and demand
Environment - 23/12/2010 - 5 comments

Nothing over a million dollars
Society - 14/12/2010 - 37 comments

The cost of elections
Domestic Politics - 12/10/2010 - 5 comments

Don’t waste the Murray River!
Environment - 1/07/2010 - 3 comments

Ballyhoo and balloons: political elections
Domestic Politics - 23/02/2010 - 3 comments

We’ve never had it so good
Society - 9/02/2010 - 7 comments

What a difference a lot of humans make
Society - 21/01/2010 - 6 comments

Combatting prejudice: African Australian refugee youth
Society - 19/08/2009 - 6 comments

The Internet at home - a member of the family
August 2009 Feature - 5/08/2009

A stitch in time ...
Society - 25/06/2009 - 9 comments

Damage control - a greater problem than climate change
Environment - 14/05/2009 - 34 comments

Carbon trading has problems
Environment - 5/03/2009 - 7 comments

Housing for our changing climates
Environment - 23/02/2009 - 17 comments

ABC TV for children
Media - 22/12/2008 - 4 comments

Rupert Murdoch on education for the disadvantaged
Education - 4/12/2008 - 1 comment

Manufacturing, jobs and low technology
Science & Technology - 9/10/2008 - 12 comments

Language and literacy
Education - 8/09/2008 - 2 comments

Could the Olympic Games become fair sport?
Sport - 27/08/2008 - 7 comments

An audit for educational disadvantage
Education - 15/08/2008 - 9 comments

Cardinal Pell’s babies - quantity or quality
Society - 31/07/2008 - 18 comments

Marriages for the modern world
Society - 16/07/2008 - 7 comments

Who owns your sewage?
Environment - 3/07/2008 - 8 comments

The case for an Australian-made small second car
Environment - 5/06/2008 - 29 comments

Rubbishing on about plastic bags
Environment - 30/04/2008 - 12 comments

An ambit claim for the Ruddfest 2020
March 2008 Feature - 11/03/2008 - 2 comments

Revolutionary change in education
February 2008 Feature - 20/02/2008 - 10 comments

Cutting waste - saving the planet without destroying economies
Environment - 7/02/2008 - 19 comments

Australian citizenship and human rights
Law & Liberties - 17/01/2008 - 12 comments

Population is not a front page issue
Environment - 17/12/2007 - 43 comments

Improving politicians' behaviour
Domestic Politics - 5/12/2007 - 11 comments

The big election myth - is the economy strong?
Economics - 24/10/2007 - 62 comments

Compensation as a right?
Health - 8/10/2007 - 10 comments

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