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Understanding the NDIS: the challenges disability service providers face in a market-based system

  • Written by: David Gilchrist, Director of the Curtin Not-for-profit Initiative & Author of the National Disability Costing and Pricing Framework, Curtin University
imageDisability service providers face considerable challenges in the new, market-based environment.from shutterstock.com

On July 1 2016, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) moved from a trial phase to a full national roll-out. In this series on Understanding the NDIS, we explore how the scheme works, why Australia needs it, and the issues...

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Australian GPs are offered guidelines not relevant to their patients, and they often ignore them

  • Written by: Gerard Gill, Professor, Alfred Felton Chair In General Practice For Rural And Regional Victoria, Deakin University
imageGPs tend to ignore advice from guidelines not relevant to general practice.from shutterstock.com

Guidelines for GPs are often based on evidence and studies performed outside of general practice itself. This affects doctors' judgements of the risk-to-benefit ratio of treatments and the performance of diagnostic tests.

As Tania Winzenberg, Professor...

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How a single word sparked a four-year saga of climate fact-checking and blog backlash

  • Written by: Joelle Gergis, ARC DECRA Climate Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

In May 2012, my colleagues and I had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Climate, showing that temperatures recorded in Australasia since 1950 were warmer than at any time in the past 1,000 years.

Following the early online release of the paper, as the manuscript was being prepared for the journal’s print edition, one of our...

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More parents are choosing to home school their children – why?

  • Written by: David Roy, Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
imageFor some parents, home schooling helps to focus on a child's individual needs, rather than just on grades.from www.shutterstock.com

More parents in New South Wales (NSW) are choosing to home school their child.

There are now around 10,000 registered children who are home schooled each year in Australia. In NSW, the number has increased by 10% in the...

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