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A matter of trust: the checks and balances schools must have to ensure fair funding for disability

  • Written by: Kate de Bruin, Researcher in Inclusive Education, Monash University
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Recent media coverage has revealed some of Victoria’s wealthiest private schools are reporting spikes in the numbers of students with disabilities.

Many (but not all) wealthy private schools schools were initially identified as overfunded, and were set to lose government funding to bring them into line with the Schooling Resource...

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Psychology holds key to getting people out before disaster strikes

  • Written by: Elizabeth Newnham, Curtin Research Fellow in Psychology, Curtin University
imageMass evacuations in response to natural disasters like Hurricane Maria are a logistical challenge, but also face psychological barriers to residents being willing and able to leave.EPA

Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and intense. Recent hurricanes, floods, bushfires and earthquakes have highlighted the significant potential for mass...

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Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses

  • Written by: Michael Adams, Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of Wollongong
imageWild horses, known as brumbies, in Australia. Shutterstock.com

I am walking quietly through the forest. As I reach the edge of the trees there is a snort and a staccato of hoofbeats, and four horses materialise only metres in front of me: a foal, two mares and a dark stallion. The stallion, ears pricked, tosses his head and prances forward. As I...

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Three areas to reform federal-state financial relations

  • Written by: John Freebairn, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne

While this week’s draft report from the Productivity Commission didn’t recommend a major overhaul of how GST is allocated among the states, it did recommend “a longer term goal of reform to federal financial relations”.

Three areas of Commonwealth-state financial relations warrant reform.

The first is to broaden the GST...

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