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Government can support public interest journalism in Australia – here's how

  • Written by: Johan Lidberg, Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
imageThe government should restore funding to public broadcasters SBS and ABC enabling them to produce more public interest journalism.www.mediaday.com.au

Independent journalism’s importance to healthy democracies is undisputed. In a time of rising autocratic tendencies around the world, this independent check on power is more needed than ever....

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What we know, don’t know and suspect about what causes motor neuron disease

  • Written by: Lyndsey Collins-Praino, Senior Lecturer in School of Medicine, University of Adelaide
imageSome types of MND start with a loss of grip. But what causes this?from www.shutterstock.com.au

This is a longer read.

Since 2014, the ice bucket challenge, which involves people pouring a bucket of icy water over their heads, has raised awareness and much-needed research funds for motor neuron disease. While research for a cure is underway, first we...

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The top five films of the Sydney Film Festival (and the rest)

  • Written by: Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageElizabeth Olsen and Aubrey Plaza in Ingrid Goes West: a gloriously uncomfortable film. Star Thrower Entertainment, 141 Entertainment, Mighty Engine

There were few flawless films at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival compared with 2016. Last year we were fortunate enough to see several perfect films (Suburra, Suntan, Wild, and Free In Deed, for example),...

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Free textbooks for first-year university students could help improve retention rates

  • Written by: James Arvanitakis, Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
imageTextbooks can be costly. from shutterstock.com

Despite 20 years of focus on improving university retention rates, we are still losing one in five of our first-year students.

And the release of a new report by TEQSA again reminds us of the challenges of retention.

The report highlights that, on average, universities have a 20% attrition rate. This...

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  2. Liberal backbenchers arc up on behalf of Catholic schools
  3. What’s in a name? Writing across borders of poetry and music
  4. Are heatwaves 'worsening' and have 'hot days' doubled in Australia in the last 50 years?
  5. Full response from the Climate Council for an article on heatwaves and hot days in Australia
  6. The last line of defence: Indigenous rights and Adani's land deal
  7. Science can be beautiful, but please don't call it basic
  8. Monitoring Build Times: Maintaining our Fast feedback Loop
  9. Blasphemy is still a crime in Australia – and it shouldn't be
  10. Three charts on: how part-time work is growing more slowly, but more men are doing it
  11. Newspoll steady at 53-47 to Labor. Macron's party wins French lower house elections
  12. Amazon poses a double threat to Australian retailers
  13. Emergency doctors are using acupuncture to treat pain, now here's the evidence
  14. A national amnesty will not rid Australia of violent gun crime
  15. The off-topic Conversation #125
  16. 'The way they manipulate people is really saddening': study shows the trade-offs in gig work
  17. Mixed media: how Australia's newspapers became locked in a war of left versus right
  18. Psychogeography: a way to delve into the soul of a city
  19. A quarter of kidney donors are living: what you need to know to be a donor
  20. At home with Emily Dickinson
  21. Your guide to solving the next online viral maths problem
  22. Only a mother could love 'em: why cockroaches and termites are great parents
  23. Fewer students are going to public secondary schools in Australia
  24. Will the Greens let the teachers' union bully them over schools funding?
  25. Twenty years after the handover, Hong Kong proves itself a headache for China
  26. Turnbull's Trump riff won't please The Donald but it could be a hit at home
  27. Wind farms are hardly the bird slayers they're made out to be. Here's why
  28. Weekly Quiz: how did Donald Trump fire FBI Director James Comey?
  29. There are ways to reduce injuries in kids that don't involve wrapping them in cotton wool
  30. With the rise of subscription and online TV, we need to rethink local content rules
  31. Vital Signs: Australia is facing an interest rates dilemma
  32. As Trump ups the ante, executive powers should worry Australians too
  33. Surfing the 3D printing wave: the changing face of surfboard fin production
  34. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Finkel feedback
  35. Turnbull government must find a way to rid Australia of foreign donations
  36. Minister to get unprecedented power if Australia's new citizenship bill is passed
  37. Why more schools need to teach bilingual education to Indigenous children
  38. Friday essay: the wonder of Joyce's Ulysses
  39. Philanthropy is funding serious journalism in the US, it could work for Australia too
  40. Goodbye to the Gatwick, and to so much of the old St Kilda
  41. The new space race: why we need a human mission to Mars
  42. Volcanoes under the ice: melting Antarctic ice could fight climate change
  43. The new data retention law seriously invades our privacy – and it's time we took action
  44. Grattan on Friday: The Finkel plan will test Malcolm Turnbull's ability to deliver significant reform
  45. Explainer: why three government ministers might face contempt of court charges
  46. How popular culture gets Australian spy work wrong
  47. Armpits and melons: an olfactory reading of James Joyce
  48. Ten Network has a hard road back to viability
  49. Politics podcast: Josh Frydenberg, George Christensen and Mark Butler on the Finkel review
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