Kate Emery
Senior Reporter at The West Australian
Senior Reporter at The Sunday Times
Journalist/Author. SevenWest Media senior reporter. YA cosy crime murder mystery MY FAMILY & OTHER SUSPECTS out now. Active on Bluesky. I muted you.
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WA researchers find parents who teach kids to write through imaginative play make for better writers
6 days ago |
thewest.com.au | Kate Emery
WA researchers have good news and bad news for parents who want to turn their kids into better writers. The good news is that mums and dads have more influence than they realise. The bad news is that they need to make it fun — and not just for the child. Edith Cowan University research suggests that parents who make writing fun through imaginative play and creative activities produce better writers.
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1 week ago |
thewest.com.au | Kate Emery
WA First Nations youth leader Tremane Baxter-Edwards can see the future of reconciliation and it looks like economic empowerment, education and the respect. It is a future free from culture wars and a world in which more Indigenous Australians learn to “walk in two worlds”, as Mr Baxter-Edwards has done as a Kimberley ranger at El Questro Wilderness Park, student and youth political adviser.
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1 week ago |
thewest.com.au | Kate Emery
One of the great privileges of being a journalist, beyond commanding universal adoration and preposterously high wages, is the chance to meet people with power, influence and fame. But for my job, the likelihood I would ever have enjoyed a sit-down chat with WA Premier Roger Cook, singer Delta Goodrem or — a career highlight, sorry Rog — legendary chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov is slim to none.
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2 weeks ago |
thewest.com.au | Kate Emery
A Melbourne private school wants its parents to do it. And, if you have young kids, you probably want to do it too. The wisdom of withholding smartphones from kids is a conversation that started when Apple’s Steve Jobs and his black turtleneck stood onstage and claimed to have reinvented the phone.
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2 weeks ago |
thewest.com.au | Kate Emery
One of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s favourite things to do is play boardgames with her family — lately a game called Chameleon has been popular. Price may love it, but it is hard to imagine the firebrand Senator being much good at a game that, as the name suggests, is all about trying to blend in. Being part of the wallpaper is not exactly her style. Forget politics, Senator Price has been standing out from the crowd since she was a young girl who fell in love with music.
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