Help your hive thrive
How can we better support local bees?
Bees are so important to the environment. This matrix will help support young people to consider how they can take positive steps in their everyday lives to help bees thrive.
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Bees are so important to the environment. This matrix will help support young people to consider how they can take positive steps in their everyday lives to help bees thrive.
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The protest practice of 'egging' is not new.
Examine four political cartoons from the First World War about Billy Hughes.
What prompted these politicians to leave their party of origin?
How the head of the government can lose their position.
Elections aren’t just about voting.
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