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Arts education helps school students learn and socialise. We must invest in it

  • Written by: Sandra Gattenhof, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
Arts education helps school students learn and socialise. We must invest in itThe ABC's Don't Stop The Music looked at the benefit of music education in disadvantaged schools.ABC

There has been renewed scrutiny in recent weeks about spending on private school capital works. Alongside science labs, sporting fields, and “wellbeing spaces”, many of Australia’s richest schools feature elaborate performing arts...

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Don't practice 'promiscuous partisanship', former public service commissioner warns bureaucrats

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Don't practice 'promiscuous partisanship', former public service commissioner warns bureaucratsDelivering the Parliamentary Library Lecture on Tuesday, Podger said the incentives for senior public servants had changed, and this had affected the way they acted.Shutterstock

The relationship between ministers and the Australian public service has transformed from a partnership to one more like “master-servant”, with the...

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How rivalries between doctors and pharmacists turned into the 'turf war' we see today

  • Written by: Philippa Martyr, Lecturer, Pharmacology, Women's Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, UWA, University of Western Australia
How rivalries between doctors and pharmacists turned into the 'turf war' we see todayApothecaries of the 17th and 18th centuries diagnosed illness, mixed up medicine and dispensed it, a far cry from the current turf war between doctors and pharmacists.Cam Miller/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Would you like to go to your local pharmacy and buy prescription medicines without seeing the doctor first? Or would you like to collect your prescription...

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  1. In Ride Like a Girl, Rachel Griffiths feminises the traditionally male hero's journey
  2. Keep your job options open and don't ditch science when choosing next year's school subjects
  3. why Australians think sporting bodies provide strongest leadership for public good
  4. when your favourite programs come back from the dead
  5. Women have made many inroads in policing, but barriers remain to achieving gender equity
  6. Drugs don't affect job seeking, so let's offer users help rather than take away their payments
  7. New law gives NZ police discretion not to prosecute drug users, but to offer addiction support instead
  8. Mark Butler calls for "ruthless" re-examination of Labor policies, including on climate
  9. why does Saturn have rings?
  10. Environment laws have failed to tackle the extinction emergency. Here's the proof
  11. There's an obvious reason wages aren't growing, but you won't hear it from Treasury or the Reserve Bank
  12. People want and need more housing choice. It's about time governments stood up to deliver it
  13. Johnson's missteps about to send weary voters to another election as the EU divorce gets ugly
  14. Rudd's rental affordability scheme was a $1 billion gift to developers; Abbott was right to axe it
  15. Fewer casual positions and less out-of-hours work could help retain early career teachers
  16. 'It felt like a prison' – too many young Australians are still stuck in nursing homes
  17. Where 'woke' came from and why marketers should think twice before jumping on the social activism bandwagon
  18. how to adopt the science without discriminating
  19. Sarah Henderson wins her way back to parliament
  20. Australia has met its renewable energy target. But hold off on the champagne
  21. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the economy
  22. The air above Antarctica is suddenly getting warmer – here's what it means for Australia
  23. how Doctor Who shapes public attitudes to science
  24. New Zealand launches plan to revive the health of lakes and rivers
  25. two new five-year arts plans
  26. what home gardeners can learn from nature's rebirth after fire
  27. Locking up legally innocent people before their trial is straining Victoria’s prisons
  28. Can we heal teeth? The quest to repair tooth enamel, nature's crystal coat
  29. 50 years of the Kaldor Foundation
  30. Many sick and disabled people are refused permanent visas. We need compassion not discrimination
  31. lessons from stone – Indigenous thinking and the Law
  32. female jockeys are more prevalent, but still treated as outsiders
  33. a source of dangerous bacteria in remote communities' water supply
  34. 3 ways planners can defy the odds to promote good health for all of us
  35. NAPLAN tests are not tough enough for the level of maths students are studying
  36. Vital Signs. Sure, economic growth is low, but think about what's gone right
  37. When schmoozing the PM gets you a black eye
  38. Journalism is failing climate change
  39. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on a slowing economy
  40. the truth about electric vehicle emissions
  41. With conventional wisdom, answers to our economic malaise are in short supply
  42. Trump trails leading Democrats by record margins, plus Brexit latest and the LNP leads in Queensland
  43. Tiny specks in space could be the key to finding martian life
  44. Relaxing pharmacy ownership rules could result in more chemist chains and poorer care
  45. Kids learn valuable life skills through rough-and-tumble play with their dads
  46. what exactly do musical conductors do?
  47. Thinking of seeing a psychologist? Here's how to choose the therapy best for you
  48. Indigenous people no longer have the legal right to say no to the Adani mine
  49. Apple iPhones could have been hacked for years – here's what to do about it
  50. Outgoing ASIO head hopes for greater public preparedness to defend Australian sovereignty

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