Holistic educational philosophies emphasise making people, rather than teaching people. This emphasises moral instruction (e.g., politeness, de-emphasis on individuality in favour of group harmony) and community participation/service (e.g., cleaning and running events), alongside traditional academics.

Approximately 65% of Victorians support entering into a treaty with Victoria's Indigenous People. The Victorian government is currently involved in negotiations with the Treaty Authority (a special Statutory Authority) which are expected to result in a treaty within the next 2-3 years.

Josh Frydenberg is a moderate Liberal politician. He supported the Voice to Parliament and belonged to the centre-right faction of the Liberal party.

Both major Australian political parties have proposed competing measures to assist first-home buyers.

Labor have proposed the 'Help to Buy' scheme where the federal government would contribute up to 40% of the purchase price of a property, reducing the deposit and interest payments, in return for a 40% stake in the property. Homeowners could pay the government back over time or when they sell the property.

The Coalition have proposed the 'Super for Housing' scheme where buyers can access up to $50k from their superannuation to contribute to a deposit on a house.

Both schemes have eligibility requirements and other conditions.

Most criminal prosecutions are brought by the state. A private prosecution is a criminal case which is brought by an individual, a business or an organisation which considers itself to have been the victim of a crime. Private prosecutions have to comply with guidelines, and are still heard before a state appointed judge or jury.

A communication is unsolicited when it was not reasonably sought or expected. Examples include junk mail, spam, public social media posts and comments or unexpected private communications to strangers (email, direct message, letter, etc). This does not include any communications with friends or family, nor face-to-face interactions.

Use rights generally provide an exclusive right to fish a particular place at a particular time, to certain groups of fishers (companies, individuals or communities).

A Locally Undesirable Land Use (LULU) is a type of land use that creates externality costs on those living in close proximity (bad smells, poor aesthetics, health hazards etc.) Examples of LULUs include prisons, garbage dumps, power plants and homeless shelters. In a tender process, each local community is required to submit a bid for an amount of compensation for which they would accept the LULU near them. The community that submits the lowest bid, is paid their requested compensation and the LULU is placed near them.

Hedonic happiness is the belief that happiness comes from pleasure and self-indulgence, following current desires and maximising immediate enjoyment. Eudaimonic happiness is the belief that happiness comes from the pursuit of goals and having a clear purpose.


Open source software is released under a license allowing anybody to freely examine, alter, and distribute the software and its source code.

Many countries currently target an inflation rate of 2%.

Shortly after the commencement of Donald Trump's second term, the Trump Administration began a campaign to significantly reduce the size of the Federal Civil Service. This entailed efforts to fire civil servants, and convince them to resign, such as: offering redundancy payments, changing job requirements, transferring civil servants, and applying political pressure to senior civil servants.

New psychoactive substances (NPS) are synthetic drugs designed to mimic the effects of illegal substances, with altered chemical structures to evade drug laws. New versions of these drugs are continuously being produced by clandestine drug laboratories and released into the public, predominantly for recreational use.
There are two approaches to prohibiting these drugs. Individual listing, which is traditionally used in drug listing, only prohibits drugs explicitly named by legislation. Analogue listing pre-emptively prohibits drugs that are similar to existing illegal substances, either based on chemical composition or effects of consumption.