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Dastyari resigns, but will Labor's proposals fix the political donations system?

  • Written by: Yee-Fui Ng, Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
imageLabor senator Sam Dastyari admits he 'made a mistake' by accepting money from a Chinese company to cover a travel bill.AAP/Dean Lewins

Labor senator Sam Dastyari has resigned his shadow frontbench position after a week-long saga over a Chinese company having covered his travel expenses. This payment led to questions about his support for China in...

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Full response from the Productivity Commission

  • Written by: Lucinda Beaman, Editor, The Conversation

In relation to this FactCheck on education spending, a spokesperson for the Productivity Commission said (questions from The Conversation are in bold):

Could you please provide sources to support the assertion that there have been substantial increases in spending on education over the past decade?

Real Government spending (combined Australian...

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FactCheck: has education spending gone up while student achievement has stalled or declined?

  • Written by: Sue Thomson, Director, Educational Monitoring and Research Division; Research Director, Australian Surveys Research Program, Australian Council for Educational Research

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped. – The Productivity Commission draft report on the National Education Evidence Base, September 6,...

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How can we fix Australia's Indonesia anxiety?

  • Written by: Greg Fealy, Associate Professor and Senior Fellow, Indonesian Politics, Department of Political and Social Change, Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs, Australian National University
imageIndonesia is the neighbour that makes Australians feel uneasy but also want to get on with.shutterstock

Coinciding with the Conference of Australian and Indonesian Youth in Bali this week, The Conversation is running a series on issues pertaining to the two countries.

Australians have long been ambivalent towards Indonesia. They want a good...

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  4. Company results wrap: energy companies are facing disruption
  5. By 2030, 'no Australian child will be living in poverty' – why can't we promise that?
  6. Nicotine for vaping should be legalised in Australia: 40 international and Australian experts
  7. Speaking with: Juan Francisco Salazar about colonising Antarctica and Mars
  8. To a modern audience, Othello is simply another story of domestic abuse
  9. Both statins and a Mediterranean-style diet can help ward off heart disease and stroke
  10. You can't eat with us! When the working class meet high-end cooking shows
  11. Government review supports Australia's marine reserves – now it’s time to move on
  12. Explainer: how the Paralympics classification system keeps things fair
  13. Australia must heed the lessons of ‘hybrid warfare’ to avoid falling behind on the battlefield
  14. How happiness improves business results
  15. Please can we give up on complementary, alternative and 'integrative therapies' now?
  16. Apple and Ireland are betting on 'Nation Inc' and a world of shareholder citizens
  17. China’s G20 summit was big on show, but short on substance
  18. Company results wrap: news publishers are transforming, but into what?
  19. Sydney property market spreads price shocks to other capital cities
  20. NT royal commission is the cost of failing to meet international standards on torture
  21. Vitamin D may protect against severe asthma attacks and hospitalisation
  22. Improving teaching in rural schools - we need to stop borrowing approaches from overseas
  23. The ethical and cultural case for culling Australia's mountain horses
  24. With energy, ideas and cheek to spare, Richard Neville was the boy of OZ
  25. Extinction alert: saving the world from a deadly asteroid impact
  26. Company results wrap: retail sales flat, but some retailers buck the trend
  27. FactCheck Q A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia?
  28. Absurdist, poignant slapstick – plus a brass band – in En Avant, Marche!
  29. US-China ratification of Paris Agreement ramps up the pressure on Australia
  30. Can, or should, we save ARENA?
  31. Brazil ousting demonstrates the new coup rocking Latin America
  32. Health Check: is it bad to regularly sleep wearing earplugs?
  33. Protected areas are helping save our favourite animals – but let's not forget the others
  34. If the TPP dies, Australia has other game changing trade options
  35. Paranoid politics: how does Donald Trump get away with it?
  36. Habitat III: the biggest conference you’ve probably never heard of
  37. New Grattan research shows what is at stake in the superannuation debate
  38. Vital Signs: all eyes on the central bankers
  39. Explainer: what's meningococcal meningitis and what are the signs?
  40. Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways – we need to stop using unproven, harmful methods
  41. The Climate Change Authority report: a dissenting view
  42. Careful surveillance and pet wearables: at home with animals
  43. Why old theories on Indigenous counting just won't go away
  44. Will airlines ban Samsung phones after their recall for exploding batteries?
  45. Liberal Party 'internals' have a bad attack of acid stomach
  46. Victorian ReachTEL: Labor leads, but Andrews damaged by CFA dispute
  47. Boyer Lectures: Episode 1 – Health inequalities and the causes of the causes
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