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Australia's videogames are inventive, acclaimed and world-class, so where's the government support?

  • Written by: Brendan Keogh, PhD Candidate, Game Studies, RMIT University
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Last week, the CEO of the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association Ron Curry penned a clearly frustrated open letter to the Minister for Communications and the Arts, Mitch Fifield, about his government’s stubborn persistence in ignoring the Australian videogame industry.

The letter was a direct response to the...

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Fifty years on from the 1967 referendum, it's time to tell the truth about race

  • Written by: Chelsea Bond, Senior Lecturer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS Unit), The University of Queensland
image'We cannot talk about building truthful relationships without being honest about the racialised realities of our social world.'3CR

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum, in a sunset ceremony in central Australia, approximately 300 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates from across Australia delivered the Uluru Statement...

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Why the seemingly tidy, leaked proposal for hospital funding may be a problem policy

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageA byproduct of Australia’s fractured federalism is that both the Commonwealth and state governments fund public hospitals.from shutterstock.com

Leaked documents reported by Fairfax Media yesterday reveal Commonwealth bureaucrats are considering a proposal to simplify how public hospitals are funded in Australia.

While Labor has jumped on the...

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Confused about changes to school funding? Here's what you need to know

  • Written by: Misty Adoniou, Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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The Coalition government announced their new school funding proposal with a flourish, and a Gonski.

David Gonski was the architect of the 2011 needs-based funding model that the Labor party hobbled, and which the Liberal party then sent right down the gurgler.

So, for many in the...

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