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Five things senators (and everyone else) should know about changes to HELP debts

  • Written by: Mark Warburton, Honorary Senior Fellow, LH Martin Institute, University of Melbourne
imageHELP repayment arrangements have long term consequences for students and their families.Shutterstock

Parliament will resume on October 16, when the Senate will consider the government’s proposed changes to higher education. There has been a lot of discussion about many of the changes, but little about the impact of the proposed change to HELP...

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The Hanson effect: how hate seeps in and damages us all

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
imageA client whose hair she had been cutting for 20 years came in as usual, and then, without any prompting or preamble, launched into a tirade against Muslims.Shutterstock

Such hair as I have is cut from time to time by Mrs E, who runs a one-chair salon in my neighbourhood.

She has been in business there for 40 years. She knows all about the history of...

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Old sites, new visions: art and archaeology collide in Cyprus

  • Written by: Craig Barker, Education Manager, Sydney University Museums, University of Sydney

Over the past two decades Australian archaeologists have been slowly uncovering the World Heritage-listed ancient theatre site at Paphos in Cyprus. The Hellenistic-Roman period theatre was used for performance for over six centuries from around 300 BC to the late fourth century AD. There is also considerable evidence of activity on the site after...

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Digital media are changing the face of buildings, and urban policy needs to change with them

  • Written by: Niels Wouters, Academic Specialist, Microsoft Research Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces, University of Melbourne
imageHarpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland.David Phan/flickr, CC BY-SA

Looking over the Melbourne skyline in the evening, I can see at least four high-rise building facades containing digital media. They’ve become animated, almost flickering like diamonds. And we see this across the globe: buildings now seem to compete to be the most...

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  2. Science or Snake Oil: do men need sperm health supplements?
  3. Whatever happened to the 15-hour workweek?
  4. Why is the US trying to shut down Russian security company Kaspersky Lab?
  5. No chance of US gun control despite Las Vegas massacre; NZ left gains two seats after special votes
  6. Nick Xenophon set to go back to where he came from
  7. What the Nobel Prize tells us about the state of economics
  8. Revenge served cold: was Scott of the Antarctic sabotaged by his angry deputy?
  9. Nobel-winner Kazuo Ishiguro shows us the illusion of connection with the world
  10. The reality of living with 50℃ temperatures in our major cities
  11. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the toughened terrorism laws
  12. Explainer: why is Western Australia fighting with miners over gold royalties?
  13. Ancestry, storytelling, and fighting racism with rap
  14. Taylor Mac makes history at Melbourne Festival opening
  15. Let's face it, we'll be no safer with a national facial recognition database
  16. Xenophon's shock resignation from Senate to run for state seat
  17. Research Check: can ‘Lightning Process’ coaching program help youths with chronic fatigue?
  18. Tom Petty died from a cardiac arrest – what makes this different to a heart attack and heart failure?
  19. Neanderthals didn't give us red hair but they certainly changed the way we sleep
  20. Are mass shootings a white man's problem?
  21. Super cute home robots are coming, but think twice before you trust them
  22. COAG meeting on counter-terrorism was more about politics than practice
  23. Friday essay: the recovery of cuneiform, the world's oldest known writing
  24. The government's new gas deal will ease the squeeze, but dodges the price issue
  25. Underground in Brisvegas: can an electronic dance music artist thrive outside the city?
  26. Jobs, tax and politics: three ways electric vehicles will change our world
  27. Sleep and the restless preschooler: why policies need to change
  28. Vital Signs: the data is mixed but worrying signs from mortgagees
  29. Grattan on Friday: Keeping the community safe requires keeping the society united
  30. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a lawyer, a biblical scholar and a fact-checker walk into the same-sex marriage debate...
  31. Health Check: do we lose gains from exercise as our bodies get used to it?
  32. Leaders agree to hand over driver licence data as part of COAG counter-terror package
  33. Life frozen in time under an electron microscope gets a Nobel Prize
  34. Alternative facts do exist: beliefs, lies and politics
  35. Two puppeteers walk into a Japanese bathhouse in The Dark Inn
  36. Politics podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree
  37. Europe will benefit hugely from keeping global warming to 1.5°C
  38. Shakespeare's lost playhouse – now under a supermarket
  39. The oil and gas sector needs to diversify if it wants to prosper
  40. Passion and pain: why secessionist movements rarely succeed
  41. Room sharing is the new flat sharing
  42. Error correcting the things that go wrong at the quantum computing scale
  43. Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma
  44. How refugees overcome the odds to become entrepreneurs
  45. When it comes to the NBN, we keep having the same conversations over and over
  46. Is faster profit growth essential for a pick-up in wages growth?
  47. Children can decide their medical treatments under Victoria’s unique advance directive laws
  48. Australia's $1 billion loan to Adani is ripe for a High Court challenge
  49. Why are we still pursuing the Adani Carmichael mine?
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