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Why more schools need to teach bilingual education to Indigenous children

  • Written by: Samantha Disbray, Senior linguistics researcher, Charles Darwin University
imageIndigenous children can benefit greatly from learning in a language they understand. Neda Vanovac/AAP

In this series, we’ll discuss whether progress is being made on Indigenous education, looking at various areas including policy, scholarships, school leadership, literacy and much more.

Nancy Oldfield Napurrurla has taught at Yuendumu school fo...

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Friday essay: the wonder of Joyce's Ulysses

  • Written by: SF McLaren, Author: Reframing A Portrait of the Artist: Joyce and the phenomenological imagination, Western Sydney University
imageA parade in St Petersburg last year celebrating Bloomsday, the day on which Ulysses is set.Shutterstock

James Joyce once said to his friend Frank Budgen:

If there is any difficulty in reading what I write it is because of the material I use. In my case the thought is always simple.

“Difficulty” is an understatement for the reader’s...

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Philanthropy is funding serious journalism in the US, it could work for Australia too

  • Written by: Bill Birnbauer, Adjunct senior lecturer , School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University

Non-profit investigative journalism centres have invigorated watchdog reporting in the United States over the past decade, a period commonly associated with despair over the state of serious journalism. My research attributes a sharp increase in the number of such centres in the United States directly to philanthropic funding, made more attractive...

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Goodbye to the Gatwick, and to so much of the old St Kilda

  • Written by: Gareth Wilson, Researcher at the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage, University of Melbourne
imageThe closure of the Gatwick Hotel means those most in need of shelter have lost another place they could stay.Darkydoors from www.shutterstock.com

The closure of the Gatwick Hotel in St Kilda represents a new front in the ongoing gentrification debate in inner Melbourne. It highlights inconvenient truths about cultural appropriation, heritage as a...

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  1. The new space race: why we need a human mission to Mars
  2. Volcanoes under the ice: melting Antarctic ice could fight climate change
  3. The new data retention law seriously invades our privacy – and it's time we took action
  4. Grattan on Friday: The Finkel plan will test Malcolm Turnbull's ability to deliver significant reform
  5. Explainer: why three government ministers might face contempt of court charges
  6. How popular culture gets Australian spy work wrong
  7. Armpits and melons: an olfactory reading of James Joyce
  8. Ten Network has a hard road back to viability
  9. Politics podcast: Josh Frydenberg, George Christensen and Mark Butler on the Finkel review
  10. The NDIS costs are on track, but that doesn't mean all participants are getting the support they need
  11. Two in five pregnant women don't receive care in the first trimester
  12. Emily Bell: Journalism in the age of Trump and the real-time social web
  13. Elder abuse report ignores impact on people's health
  14. The problems with asking banks to police financial abuse
  15. Explainer: what is public interest journalism?
  16. CPA in crisis: why more associations will have to disclose CEO pay
  17. Playing the numbers: a billion-dollar gamble on the European X-ray Laser
  18. Will the superhero films ever end? The business of blockbuster movie franchises
  19. Are maternal hormones different when carrying a boy or a girl?
  20. Zoos aren't Victorian-era throwbacks: they're important in saving species
  21. Leaving school early means you're likely never to return to study and training in adult life
  22. Autonomy and strong female leadership key to success of Indigenous owned Murri School
  23. Torrens, our land-title pioneer, might have approved of privatised registries
  24. Ten Network's problems are history repeating
  25. UK Labour's votes have become inefficiently distributed since 2010
  26. For $70m, government gets off lightly, but settlement still highlights responsibility for Manus
  27. When is 'not a backdoor' just a backdoor? Australia's struggle with encryption
  28. Trepidation and delight: experiencing Dark Mofo with a three-year-old
  29. Uncertainty isn't causing slow economic growth, for now
  30. Health Check: what's the right way to blow your nose?
  31. Why women’s tennis rankings need an overhaul
  32. Tall turkeys and nuggety chickens: large 'megapode' birds once lived across Australia
  33. Research Check: can even moderate drinking cause brain damage?
  34. Three charts on: Australia's booming prison population
  35. Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect that
  36. Indigenous picture books offering windows into worlds
  37. Curious Kids: Who made the alphabet song?
  38. The compulsion to create: 'outsider art' at MONA's Museum of Everything
  39. From Joseph Banks to big data, herbaria bring centuries-old science into the digital age
  40. Three strategies unions are considering for their survival
  41. In defence of serendipity: the Silicon Emperor is wearing no clothes
  42. Critical backbenchers push back on Finkel clean energy target plan
  43. Mamamia! When it's high time for some bitch-shamin'
  44. New tax treaty will close loopholes that allow multinationals to avoid tax
  45. Film festival reveals the passion, emotion and disappointment that can come with science
  46. Should Australia have a Modern Slavery Act?
  47. An extra organ or body part is more common than you think
  48. Could you pass the proposed English test for Australian citizenship?
  49. A better alternative to levying the bank tax
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