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It’s all about the money, honey

  • Written by: Jen Webb, Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra

On 8 June, with less than a month before the 2016 election, the arts advocacy group ArtsPeak staged a national debate on the topic of arts policy. Minister for Communications and the Arts Mitch Fifield, Shadow Minister for the Arts and Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, and the Greens' spokesperson for the arts, Adam Bandt, spoke to the...

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Witless white noise, virulent ugliness: Brexit debate plays out its last scenes

  • Written by: Remy Davison, Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics, Monash University

Mass politics versus elite interests. Mad dogs and Englishmen. That’s the Brexit referendum in a nutshell.

Make no mistake: this is an internecine struggle between political elites. Brexiters such as Boris Johnson, and UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader, Nigel Farage, paint the European Union (EU) as a remote, authoritarian entity, staffed...

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Why politicians and fictional characters have a lot in common

  • Written by: Dan Dixon, PhD Student in English, University of Sydney
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Covering the 1988 presidential primaries, the writer Joan Didion described Governor Michael Dukakis tossing a baseball (provided by his press secretary) back and forth with his daughter on the San Diego airport tarmac; a moment of levity caught on film.

Didion was later told by a CNN producer that the same family game of catch had occurred during...

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Report urges India to allow overseas universities to open up campuses

  • Written by: Trent Brown, Research Assistant, Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne
imageIndia is being urged to reverse a policy that doesn't allow foreign universities to open up a campus.from www.shutterstock.com

Last year, the Indian government called for a review into how to best reform its education system. The findings and recommendations released this week reflect the momentum building in India for change in the sector.

The...

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  2. Treaty debate will only strengthen Indigenous recognition process
  3. Experienced shareholders better than independent directors for business
  4. Sky's the limit – now share the love
  5. Drug companies are buying doctors – for as little as a $16 meal
  6. How CSIRO is turbocharging the world's largest radio telescopes
  7. ReachTEL polls have large swings to Labor in NSW marginals
  8. Election explainer: why can't Australians vote online?
  9. Can cycling help with grief and depression?
  10. Is Medicare under threat? Making sense of the privatisation debate
  11. The sound of silence: why has the environment vanished from election politics?
  12. Timeline: Australia's climate policy
  13. Views from abroad: how is the world seeing Australia's election?
  14. What's the key to home ownership for Gen Y?
  15. How the major parties' policies compare on business and finance regulation
  16. Here's looking at Frida Kahlo's Self-portrait with monkeys
  17. One in five early childhood educators plan to leave the profession
  18. Referendum Day in the Dis-United Kingdom
  19. No massacres and an accelerating decline in overall gun deaths: the impact of Australia’s major 1996 gun law reforms
  20. Labor moves its scare campaign onto vaccination register
  21. Barnaby Joyce might seek another portfolio
  22. Managing same-sex marriage plebiscite would be a challenge for Turnbull within his own ranks
  23. The need for speed: there's still time to fix Australia's NBN
  24. Explainer: what is ‘value capture’ and what does it mean for cities?
  25. How is the UK's Brexit referendum different from Australian referendums?
  26. Why the Prime Minister's Literary Awards need an urgent overhaul
  27. The fossil-fuelled political economy of Australian elections
  28. Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship
  29. Weekly Dose: codeine doesn't work for some people, and works too well for others
  30. Here's a good news conservation story: farmers are helping endangered ecosystems
  31. Wall St might not be ready for a war on high-frequency trading
  32. Infographic: how much does Australia spend on science and research?
  33. The Indi Project: who do Indi voters trust to run the country?
  34. How a Brexit could impact on Australia
  35. Business Briefing: ASIC tries to prevent fintech startups from becoming scammers
  36. Listening but not hearing: process has trumped substance in Indigenous affairs
  37. Tackling Indigenous family violence needs more than band-aid solutions
  38. Are the Greens really the climate radicals we need?
  39. Should academics cite those who have breached moral and humane borders?
  40. New food labels should go further than country of origin
  41. Spacing of letters, not shape of letters, slightly increases reading speed of those with dyslexia
  42. Collecting data to help protect Australia's waters from toxic algal blooms
  43. Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with you
  44. Simple processing and clever apps? Don't hold your breath for a user-friendly Medicare IT system
  45. Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger
  46. Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll
  47. PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?
  48. Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes
  49. How should reading be taught in schools?
  50. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour

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How Telematics Helps Australian Companies Improve Productivity

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