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Liberal backbenchers arc up on behalf of Catholic schools

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageThe government is counting on a deal with the Greens or the support of most of the other Senate crossbenchers to pass its schools funding package.Brendan Esposito/AAP

Struggling to land a deal on schools funding with either the Greens or other crossbenchers, Education Minister Simon Birmingham is now also having to hose down a backbench backlash...

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What’s in a name? Writing across borders of poetry and music

  • Written by: Jen Webb, Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
imageBob Dylan in 1991.Xavier Badosa, CC BY-SA

Bob Dylan’s recent speech to the Swedish Academy led to a flurry of commentary about the “smoky, meditative jazz-piano arrangement” of the speech, what Dylan did and didn’t say, and whether he’d used Sparknotes to quote from Moby Dick. It takes me back to the high feelings and...

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Are heatwaves 'worsening' and have 'hot days' doubled in Australia in the last 50 years?

  • Written by: Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

The release of the Finkel report has refocused national attention on climate change, and how we know it’s happening.

On a Q&A episode following the report’s release, Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie said we’ve seen:

… worsening heatwaves, hot days doubling in Australia in the last 50 years.

Excerpt from Q&A, June...

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  28. As Trump ups the ante, executive powers should worry Australians too
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  30. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Finkel feedback
  31. Turnbull government must find a way to rid Australia of foreign donations
  32. Minister to get unprecedented power if Australia's new citizenship bill is passed
  33. Why more schools need to teach bilingual education to Indigenous children
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  37. The new space race: why we need a human mission to Mars
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  39. The new data retention law seriously invades our privacy – and it's time we took action
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