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What will school education look like by 2020?

  • Written by: Claire Shaw, Education Editor, The Conversation
imageWe are going to see more teachers working outside their area of expertise.from www.shutterstock.com

In our series, Better Teachers, we’ll explore how to improve teacher education in Australia. We’ll look at what the evidence says on a range of themes including how to raise the status of the profession and measure and improve teacher...

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What are the main challenges facing teacher education in Australia?

  • Written by: Field Rickards, Dean of Education, University of Melbourne
imageBy investing wisely in the best evidence-based teacher education programs, the government can foster quality teaching without increasing total funding.Paul Miller/AAP

In our series, Better Teachers, we’ll explore how to improve teacher education in Australia. We’ll look at what the evidence says on a range of themes including how to...

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Tasmanian devils are evolving rapidly to fight their deadly cancer

  • Written by: Menna Elizabeth Jones, Associate professor, University of Tasmania
imageA healthy devil. Menna Jones

For the past 20 years, an infectious cancer has been killing wild Tasmanian devils, creating a massive challenge for conservationists. But new research, published today in Nature Communications, suggests that devils are evolving rapidly in response to their highly lethal transmissible cancer and that they could...

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Victoria bans fracking, but leaves questions over gas supply

  • Written by: Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University

The Victorian government has announced it will permanently ban unconventional gas, often produced through the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”. Legislation to implement the ban will be introduced this year.

This ban follows a 2015 report on unconventional gas. Following extensive review, committee members were...

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  2. Should we be forcing people with severe mental illness to have treatment they don't want?
  3. Why policy differences continue to exist despite globalisation's evolution
  4. Business Briefing: hack-proof, how business can stay ahead in cybersecurity
  5. What is an artistic director, and why does the Sydney Theatre Company need one?
  6. Malcolm Turnbull surrounded by trouble – left, right and centre
  7. An official welcome to the Anthropocene epoch – but who gets to decide it's here?
  8. After Operation Spicer, what more needs to be done to clean up political donations in NSW?
  9. Cutting ARENA would devastate clean energy research
  10. Here's why your body makes you feel like crap when you're sick
  11. FactCheck Q A: is a week's worth of Newstart equal to what a politician can claim for one night in Canberra?
  12. Full response from Kon Karapanagiotidis
  13. The failed history of tobacco harm reduction
  14. 'Welcoming, but not affirming': being gay and Christian
  15. The rise of the Fitbit kids: a good move or a step too far?
  16. Tampon versus pad: why more women still choose the latter to manage periods
  17. Young people are not after an easy ride, just job security
  18. Victorian Labor man favourite to replace George Wright as ALP national secretary
  19. Since when were liberals authoritarian wowsers? Mike Baird exposes today's Liberal Party confusion
  20. The off-topic Conversation #106
  21. The least-skilled workers are the losers in globalisation
  22. Want to improve NAPLAN scores? Teach children philosophy
  23. Sequins and symphonies: how opera ran away with the circus
  24. Is Australia really being flooded by new killer drugs?
  25. Marriage 'inequality' is a threat to religious freedom – and it is probably unconstitutional
  26. Coastal councils are already adapting to rising seas – we've built a website to help
  27. Are things really as bad as the ABC Four Corners' Cyber War documentary makes out?
  28. The Australian government needs to be more open about the cyber threat from China
  29. Full response from a spokesperson for Mitch Fifield
  30. FactCheck Q A: what has the Children’s eSafety Commissioner done in its first year to tackle cyberbullying?
  31. From execrable to memorable: Ben Lerner’s essay on the hatred of poetry
  32. Estimating the 'cost' of fuel tax credits is a tricky business
  33. Politics podcast: Bob Brown on Malcolm Turnbull and the same-sex marriage plebiscite
  34. Bob Brown supports marriage plebiscite as a last resort
  35. Kids are more susceptible to brain injury, and concussion has implications beyond what we thought
  36. From bonnets to fez to burkinis, clothing has long made us uneasy
  37. Australian communities are fighting food waste with circular economies
  38. Health Check: what can you eat to help ease 'morning' sickness in pregnancy?
  39. Face the facts: populism is here to stay
  40. The plug and play city: how shipping containers are changing infrastructure
  41. How to tell if your boss is a psychopath – and what to do about it
  42. Disunity is death? The demise of the CLP government in the Northern Territory
  43. It's not just the economy, stupid; it's whether the economy is fair
  44. Four common claims about education funding and quality that need explaining
  45. Here's looking at: Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef by Janet Laurence
  46. The winners and losers in the race for driverless cars
  47. How big a problem is ice use among Indigenous Australians?
  48. Why are professional development standards for new and returning federal MPs so inadequate?
  49. Ticked off: let’s stop our dogs and cats dying of tick paralysis this year
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