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'Short-sighted' budget means universities can't deliver their full economic benefit

  • Written by: Claire Shaw, Education Editor, The Conversation
imageIs it fair to make students pay more?from shutterstock.com

The government’s changes to higher education will put a damaging financial strain on regional universities catering to a different cohort of students, and make it difficult for all universities to deliver to their full economic benefit, vice-chancellors warn.

In the 2017 Budget announ...

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Budget bank levy: too big to fail, not too big to take a hit

  • Written by: Kevin Davis, Research Director of Australian Centre for FInancial Studies and Professor of Finance at Melbourne and Monash Universities, Australian Centre for Financial Studies

The budget announcement of a 0.06% levy on a subset of bank liabilities looks arbitrary, and is certainly politically opportunistic. But it could be rationalised as a response, albeit probably not the best response, to offsetting a number of distortions in Australia’s banking market.

The levy will certainly have consequences for bank...

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From breaking glass to chest bursting, the scientists' review of Alien: Covenant

  • Written by: Michael Milford, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageWhat's going to happen next in Alien: Covenant?Twentieth Century Fox

Alien: Covenant is the sequel to the 2012 film Prometheus, and follows the crew of the ship Covenant as they set out to colonise an uncharted paradise.

Of course things are not as they seem and they’re soon fighting for their lives in the most terrifying of situations.

The...

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Australian media at a crossroads amid threats to diversity and survival

  • Written by: Andrea Carson, Lecturer, Media and Politics, School of Social and Political Sciences; Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
imageStriking Fairfax journalists protest out the front of Parliament House, Canberra.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Instead of just writing the headlines, the Australian media have been busy making them this week. Striking Fairfax journalists boycotted the federal budget coverage in protest at their bosses cutting 120 editorial jobs, while their bosses flirt with sell...

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  1. Terror, Muslims, and a culture of fear: challenging the media messages
  2. Is this the budget that forgot renters?
  3. Explainer: what is cancer radiotherapy and why do we need proton beam therapy?
  4. Bond aggregator helps build a more virtuous circle of housing investment
  5. Evidence of ancient life in hot springs on Earth could point to fossil life on Mars
  6. Have the arts come out of the cold or is it another sleight of hand?
  7. Curious Kids: What plants could grow in the Goldilocks zone of space?
  8. Decoding the music masterpieces: Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor
  9. To get the 'good debt' tick, infrastructure needs to be fit for the future
  10. Prescribing generic drugs will reduce patient confusion and medication errors
  11. Budget 2017: Medicare levy rise finances NDIS and banks hit for budget repair
  12. Budget 2017: government goes hard on gas and hydro in bid for energy security
  13. Budget's 'good debt' conversion underpins $70b-plus infrastructure program: experts respond
  14. Budget 2017 sees Medicare rebate freeze slowly lifted and more funding for the NDIS: experts respond
  15. Federal Budget 2017: what's changing in education?
  16. Budget 2017-18 brings welfare crackdown and increased defence and security funding: experts respond
  17. Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2017-18 budget speech, annotated by experts
  18. The art of the leak: how the budget is strategically doled out for maximum effect
  19. Budget 2017: Morrison heads off the right with an appeal to altruism over self-interest
  20. Infographic: Budget 2017 at a glance
  21. Morrison's fresh start budget comes with fresh pain
  22. Budget 2017: government still tinkering with housing affordability
  23. Budget 2017: bank populism will be paid for by Australians
  24. Winning ugly: the AOC election and the Olympic spirit
  25. Data availability report presents compromised rights for consumers
  26. Life after redundancy: what happens next for journalists when they leave newsrooms
  27. Why Birmingham's performance funding plan won't improve Australian universities
  28. Has the print book trumped digital? Beware of glib conclusions
  29. What's the difference between traumatic fear and moral anger? Trigger warnings won't tell you
  30. Government spending explained in 10 charts; from Howard to Turnbull
  31. Viewpoints: is saturated fat really the killer it's made out to be?
  32. Changes to school funding - your questions answered
  33. Naming suspects in criminal cases opens up ethical minefield
  34. Tax on 'unearned gains' is the missing piece of the affordable housing puzzle
  35. Whiteley: a seductive cinematic portrait of a serious artist
  36. Global warming could accelerate towards 1.5℃ if the Pacific gets cranky
  37. Pilot study on why academics should engage with others in the community
  38. Latham to fight for 'western civilisation' from the Liberal Democrats' kennel
  39. Julie Bishop keeps Abdel-Magied on Australian-Arab board
  40. Therapy for life-threatening eating disorders works, so why can't people access it?
  41. Politics podcast: Andrew Giles on schools funding
  42. TPG bid for Fairfax: what usually happens when private equity meets media?
  43. Discovering Charles Meere: an intriguing, subversive artist
  44. What are 'fasting' diets and do they help you lose weight?
  45. The Conversation chatbot launches in Facebook Messenger
  46. Government out of touch on housing policies ahead of budget: poll
  47. Macron crushes Le Pen 66-34 in French Presidential runoff
  48. The picture of who is affected by 'revenge porn' is more complex than we first thought
  49. Live odds ban debate exposes sport and gambling's uncomfortable mutual dependency
  50. How the politics of the budget might play out for a government in trouble

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