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Withdrawing funding for hospitals' mistakes probably won't lead to better patient care

  • Written by: Helen Dickinson, Associate Professor, Public Service Research Group, UNSW
imageIf you get an infection in hospital, they'll receive less funding for your care under a new plan. Presidencia de la República Mexicana/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The Commonwealth government has just announced a change in the way they fund hospitals, effectively withholding part payment where patients have avoidable complications. The initiative aims...

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Don Burke story reveals the pernicious culture of men protecting each other in the media

  • Written by: Gael Jennings, Honorary Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne

It was such a cliché. At the office Christmas party of the national TV show where I worked, I emerged from the loo out the back to find one of my bosses straddling the doorway, blocking my way and waiting to pounce. I was shocked, not so much by his sexual harassment (that was de rigueur in the newsroom cultures of the day, the 1990s), as...

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The 2017 ARIA Awards are still off-key when it comes to gender

  • Written by: Catherine Strong, Senior Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University
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The Australian music industry has spent the last few years taking a long hard look at the position of women in music in this country. And while women such as Amy Shark, Sia and Kasey Chambers did well at the 2017 ARIA Awards on Tuesday night, there was a lot left to be desired.

It’s telling that even the key male winners from the night,...

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  2. Three charts on: poorer Australians bearing the brunt of rising housing costs
  3. What goes on inside a medically supervised injection facility?
  4. Indigenous cultural appropriation: what not to do
  5. Three new reports add clarity to Australia's space sector, a 'crowded and valuable high ground'
  6. Curious Kids: How do x-rays see inside you?
  7. Want to solve our STEM skills problem? Bring in the professionals
  8. A fresh start for climate change mitigation in New Zealand
  9. Explainer: why we shouldn't be so quick to trust energy modelling
  10. Heritage building preservation vs sustainability? Conflict isn't inevitable
  11. Here's how to keep up with the latest on Mt Agung, the Bali volcano
  12. Turnbull talks with rebel National on banks
  13. Australia's record on racial equality under the microscope
  14. The Queensland election outcome is a death knell for Adani's coal mine
  15. Starting next year, universities have to prove their research has real-world impact
  16. All hail new weather radar technology, which can spot hailstones lurking in thunderstorms
  17. In Bangarra's Ones Country, new voices show the many faces of Indigenous Australia
  18. No Don Burke, there is no link between autism and harassing behaviour
  19. Labor is right to block 'religious freedom' amendments to protect same-sex marriage bill
  20. Classifying 'national types of beauty': from cigarette cards to Miss Universe
  21. Low-income earners are more likely to die early from preventable diseases
  22. The new ticketing technology that may make scalping a thing of the past
  23. Universities are failing their students through poor feedback practices
  24. The economics of ridiculously expensive art
  25. 'I am not buying things': why some people see 'dumpster diving' as the ethical way to eat
  26. How Filipino artists are responding to President Duterte and the 'War on Drugs'
  27. Australian cities and their metropolitan plans still seem to be parallel universes
  28. Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe
  29. Turnbull backed against the wall by rebel Nationals on bank inquiry
  30. We don't need to change how we subsidise 'breakthrough' cancer treatments
  31. Sexual Harassment, Sexual Politics and the Gatekeeper Millstone
  32. Despite what politicians and the media say, freedom of speech is alive and well on campus
  33. 'Loot boxes' and pay-to-win features in digital games look a lot like gambling
  34. We need robots that can improvise, but it's not easy to teach them right from wrong
  35. Student press in 1960s Australia was political, now it's more Prozac
  36. Delay in changing direction on how we tax drivers will cost us all
  37. Australia should be cautious about introducing laws on coercive control to stem domestic violence
  38. Decoding the music masterpieces: Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites
  39. What's the net cost of using renewables to hit Australia's climate target? Nothing
  40. Science or Snake Oil: will horseradish and garlic really ease a cold?
  41. Queensland result, while decided on state issues, adds to Turnbull's burdens
  42. Conservative amendments to same-sex marriage bill would make Australia's laws the world's weakest
  43. Why we are still convinced robots will take our jobs despite the evidence
  44. With result still in the balance, Labor likely to win Queensland and One Nation likely to take just one seat
  45. Final Queensland polls show Labor likely to win
  46. One party to rule them all: Cambodia’s supreme court rules the dissolution of opposition party
  47. Uber was hacked, so change your password right now. Here's what else you need to know
  48. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Malcolm Turnbull cancelling the House sitting
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