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Yes, education funding has increased – but not everyone benefits

  • Written by: Emma Rowe, Lecturer in the School of Education, Deakin University
imageReports often conceal the inflated capital funding that schools receive for things like play areas, swimming pools and gymnasiums.from www.shutterstock.com

Spending on schools overall has increased – this is what the data tells us. Since the release of the Productivity Commission draft report, there has been an insistent claim that spending...

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Politics podcast: Don Watson on the rise of Trump

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

Earlier this year, Australian writer Don Watson visited the United States, observing the race for president. Rather than examine the “rust belt” or “down-at-heel” cities, Watson chose America’s heartland.

“I found in Wisconsin many of the underlying themes of this election. And that sort of Gothic...

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Explainer: the same-sex marriage plebiscite

  • Written by: Adam Webster, Lecturer, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
imageThe government has introduced a bill into the parliament that provides the details and mechanics of the proposed plebiscite on same-sex marriage.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Until this week, the proposed plebiscite on whether Australia should legalise same-sex marriage had been light on detail. What would be the wording of the question? When would it take...

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Section 18C is an important part of a civilised society and no threat to free speech

  • Written by: Luke McNamara, Professor of Law, UNSW Australia
imageThe norm is now that it is no longer OK to discriminate on the basis of race.shutterstock

Who can say what to whom in Australia? In this six-part series, we look at the complex idea of freedom of speech, who gets to exercise it and whether it is being curtailed in public debate.


One of the favoured strategies of commentators who oppose provisions...

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  2. Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
  3. Business Briefing: trusting an algorithm with investment decisions
  4. First person: how the Paralympics changed my life
  5. We have a moral obligation to allow drug analysis at music festivals
  6. Australia is locking up too many women but the UK offers a blueprint for a radical new approach
  7. Guide to the classics: Ovid's Metamorphoses and reading rape
  8. Confused? Don't worry because that can be a good thing
  9. People are 'blind' to plants, and that's bad news for conservation
  10. Australian Renewable Energy Agency saved but with reduced funding – experts react
  11. What is the role of a teacher?
  12. Gay Liberal senator denounces marriage plebiscite
  13. Australia's housing affordability problem explained in five historical steps
  14. Risky business: how companies are getting smart about climate change
  15. Government gets a deal for $6.3 billion in savings to pass parliament
  16. Here's why we need nurse-resident ratios in aged care homes
  17. Dickensian approach to residential tenants lingers in Australian law
  18. Australia's Health 2016 report card: experts respond
  19. Young people worldwide fear a lack of economic opportunities – it's easy to see why
  20. LNP abandons hope of challenging Herbert result
  21. Chris Mitchell writes a love letter to himself
  22. The democratic paradox
  23. Political meddling in teacher education needs to stop
  24. Free speech is at risk in Australia – and it's not from Section 18C
  25. Get out of my face! We're more antisocial in a shared office space
  26. Plebiscite looks set to fail, but the push for same-sex marriage will not
  27. Finding momentary pleasure: how viewing art can help people with dementia
  28. What is physical activity in early childhood, and is it really that important?
  29. Australia to embrace the new era of gravitational wave astronomy
  30. Climate action is the key to Australia achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
  31. Plebiscite trouble wherever Malcolm Turnbull looks
  32. Netflix likely to ignore 50% of customers willing to pay a premium for US content
  33. Senate to inquire into Nauru and Manus Island
  34. On the life of an adjective
  35. Fifteen years on from 9/11, we calculated the true cost to business
  36. When political self-interest decides donations rules, what chance reform in the public interest?
  37. Health Check: can vitamins supplement a poor diet?
  38. The off-topic Conversation #107
  39. Blame game as government forced to filibuster to fill Senate work gap
  40. Why moving out public housing tenants is a tragedy for Millers Point and for Sydney
  41. Retraction: why we removed an article about Chinese donations
  42. Phew! New Urban Agenda clears last hurdle before Habitat III
  43. Are refugee and migrant diasporas the missing piece of the development puzzle?
  44. Soft power and the institutionalisation of influence
  45. Road user charging belongs on the political agenda as the best answer for congestion management
  46. Free speech and the media are too often in a marriage of convenience
  47. Explainer: what is free speech?
  48. A history of failed reform: why Australia needs a banking royal commission
  49. To really tackle corporate tax evasion we need a public register
  50. Here’s looking at: Mike Parr’s Jackson Pollock the Female

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