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For long-term improvements, schools need to slow down

  • Written by: Jess Harris, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
image"Slow" movements promote concepts of mindfulness and a consideration of process as well as outcomes.Shutterstock/Jaromir Chalabala

Australian schools, like those in other developed countries, are caught up in what has been called the “cult of speed”. This is largely driven by reporting of the national assessment program, NAPLAN, which...

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Grattan on Friday – Turnbull's rush for an energy 'announceable' sows confusion

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageMalcolm Turnbull has tried to focus on energy policy while the opposition has been preoccupied with the eligibility of Barnaby Joyce.Mick Tsikas/AAP

Barnaby Joyce looks like he’s doing it tough. Day after day, the Deputy Prime Minister sits behind Malcolm Turnbull in question time, facing Labor’s unrelenting attack on his right to be on...

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Grief, loss, and a glimmer of hope: Josephine Wilson wins the 2017 Miles Franklin prize for Extinctions

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

Josephine Wilson has won the 2017 Miles Franklin award for her novel Extinctions. Judging panel chair Richard Neville stated Wilson’s novel, “explores ageing, adoption, grief and remorse, empathy and self-centredness”. It takes a skillful and thoughtful novelist to pack so many “big issues” into a single narrative,...

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What would it take to raise Australian productivity growth?

  • Written by: Roy Green, Dean of UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney

While productivity is once again growing in Australia, we face a big challenge in getting it to a level that would restore the rate of improvement in our living standards of the last few decades.

Yet the measures required to meet this challenge may not be the ones usually promoted by economists and editorial writers. We need innovation not just in...

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  1. APRA needs to protect whistleblowers in the CBA inquiry
  2. The off-topic Conversation #135
  3. High Court dismisses challenge, so Australia is off to the (postal) polls on same-sex marriage
  4. High Court gives go-ahead for marriage ballot
  5. Remembering Rhonda Senbergs: friend, art-world insider, unsung star
  6. Assassination by pacemaker: Australia needs to do more to regulate internet-connected medical devices
  7. Taking control of who gets to send us news
  8. FactCheck: are children 'better off' with a mother and father than with same-sex parents?
  9. Just ten MPs represent more than 600 threatened species in their electorates
  10. When it comes to North Korea, China is happy to make Trump squirm
  11. How the 'tyranny of distance' affects the Australian economy
  12. Poisoned water holes: the legal dangers of dark web policing
  13. We need a radical rethink of how to attract more teachers to rural schools
  14. People take to their bikes when we make it safer and easier for them
  15. Medical schools are shaking off a dark past by honouring people who donate their bodies to science
  16. Heart-warming, biting, tragic, funny: the Miles Franklin shortlist will move you
  17. Tony Abbott: Consider burqa ban in places dedicated to Australian values
  18. Coal and the Coalition: the policy knot that still won't untie
  19. Are you part of a social group? Making sure you are will improve your health
  20. The day Australia was put on blackout alert
  21. The beauty and mystery of Saturn's rings revealed by the Cassini mission
  22. In spite of their differences, Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God
  23. Australians may well love their sport, but why don't we delight in success elsewhere?
  24. The Conversation launches in Indonesia
  25. AMP Foundation's zipline challenge supports science at The Conversation
  26. Western Australians don't really want a 'WAxit', they just want a little love
  27. Can 'cli-fi' actually make a difference? A climate scientist's perspective
  28. It's too hard to get the data of Australian criminals when it's stored overseas
  29. Technology in the classroom can improve primary mathematics
  30. Seven ways to protect your pets in an emergency
  31. Why we remember our youth as one big hedonistic party
  32. Curious Kids: Why do our brains freak us out with scary dreams?
  33. We Live Here: how do residents feel about public housing redevelopment?
  34. Explainer: how international competition affects how much you earn
  35. AGL rejects Turnbull call to keep operating Liddell coal-fired power station
  36. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's better PM lead blows out
  37. What Cassini's mission revealed about Saturn's known and newly discovered moons
  38. What 'sniffer' planes can tell us about North Korea's nuclear tests
  39. From segregation to celebration: the public pool in Australian culture
  40. Australia and Timor Leste reach a deal on the Timor Sea – but much remains unknown
  41. Here's what social media data can tell us about the performance of Australian cities
  42. Western Australian researchers get cut off from nationally funded research cloud
  43. Two centuries of continuous volcanic eruption may have triggered the end of the ice age
  44. Has APRA just outsourced its job?
  45. Strongyloidiasis is a deadly worm infecting many Australians, yet hardly anybody has heard of it
  46. What are ketogenic diets? Can they treat epilepsy and brain cancer?
  47. Virtual child pornography could both help and hinder law enforcement
  48. Guide to the Classics: Homer's Odyssey
  49. Retrofitted cities are forcing residents to live with planning failures – we're due for a rethink
  50. Why Australian CEOs are sharing part of our wages pain

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