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Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they really want

  • Written by: Nina Lansbury Hall, Sustainable Water Program Manager, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland

Countries have a lot of work to do to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. But development projects don’t always go the way you expect.

A resettlement project in Laos recently provided taps and toilets as a way to improve hygiene and health outcomes for communities.

But on revisiting the resettled village,...

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A Galah to help capture millions of rainbows to map the history of the Milky Way

  • Written by: Jonti Horner, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
imageUntangling the history of the Milky Way.ESO/S Brunier, CC BY-SA

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains at least 100 billion stars. Over the centuries, astronomers have scoured the skies, developing a thorough understanding of the lives of those stars, from their formation in vast nebulae to their fiery and spectacular deaths.

But how has our galaxy...

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New model for school funding that won't break the budget

  • Written by: Peter Goss, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
imageA new model proposes to fix school funding arrangements.from www.shutterstock.com

Funding schools according to the needs of their students is something of a Holy Grail in Australia: something that we want very much but that has been very hard to achieve.

Every school has a “target” rate of funding for each of its students that takes into...

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Turnbull takes charge on water in bid to get ABCC deal

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Malcolm Turnbull has assumed responsibility personally for negotiating with key crossbencher Nick Xenophon over water to try to smooth the way for the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) to back the legislation to re-establish the construction industry watchdog.

Xenophon wants the bitter row over water settled before he’ll vote on the Australian...

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  5. Banking inquiry findings – ask the wrong questions get the wrong answers
  6. Changes to Radio National are gutting a cultural treasure trove
  7. Why we require real names
  8. If Trump pulls America out of the TPP, the question is: what next?
  9. Research Check: can eating aged cheese help you age well?
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  11. Trump or NASA – who's really politicising climate science?
  12. A new phonics test is pointless – we shouldn't waste precious money buying it from England
  13. Reinventing density: bridging the live-work divide
  14. Please, Donald Trump, don't send climate science back to the pre-satellite era
  15. Smash it up, burn it down: should Joe Corré set fire to punk history this weekend?
  16. Workers fight back with deviant behaviour in a precarious workplace: study
  17. Zika 'health emergency' status removed but it's sad news for reproductive health
  18. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on One Nation's troubles
  19. The rise and rise of the omniscient ‘I’
  20. Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women's experience of family violence
  21. Changes to contract laws could give small farming businesses more control of data and innovation
  22. Reinventing density: bending the rules can help stop urban sprawl
  23. Friday essay: the loss of music
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  25. Can the way we move after injury lead to chronic pain?
  26. 2050 climate targets: nations are playing the long game in fighting global warming
  27. Pink balls in day-night cricket could challenge players at sunset
  28. Grattan on Friday: The government is compromising Malcolm Turnbull's commitment to inclusion
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  38. Arrests and uncertainty overseas show why Australia must legalise compensated surrogacy
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