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Liberal backbenchers arc up on behalf of Catholic schools

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageThe government is counting on a deal with the Greens or the support of most of the other Senate crossbenchers to pass its schools funding package.Brendan Esposito/AAP

Struggling to land a deal on schools funding with either the Greens or other crossbenchers, Education Minister Simon Birmingham is now also having to hose down a backbench backlash...

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What’s in a name? Writing across borders of poetry and music

  • Written by: Jen Webb, Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
imageBob Dylan in 1991.Xavier Badosa, CC BY-SA

Bob Dylan’s recent speech to the Swedish Academy led to a flurry of commentary about the “smoky, meditative jazz-piano arrangement” of the speech, what Dylan did and didn’t say, and whether he’d used Sparknotes to quote from Moby Dick. It takes me back to the high feelings and...

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Are heatwaves 'worsening' and have 'hot days' doubled in Australia in the last 50 years?

  • Written by: Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

The release of the Finkel report has refocused national attention on climate change, and how we know it’s happening.

On a Q&A episode following the report’s release, Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie said we’ve seen:

… worsening heatwaves, hot days doubling in Australia in the last 50 years.

Excerpt from Q&A, June...

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