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Politics podcast: Simon Birmingham on the government's education reforms

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

This week, the government made big announcements about the future funding of schools and universities. Haunted by the unpopular 2014 budget, it is treading more carefully with its new education policies.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham says one of the challenges of the 2014 budget was that there were “a lot of different pieces of policy...

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Grattan on Friday: Catholic backlash over schools policy lights another Abbott-Turnbull spark

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

When the public are deeply cynical and distrustful, and have turned their back on a government, can that government change its image and the voters’ view?

Malcolm Turnbull is desperately trying to drive an affirmative answer. His efforts involve policy U-turns, interventionist roads usually untravelled by the Coalition, and personal positions...

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Facebook turns to real people to fix its violent video problem

  • Written by: Jennifer Beckett, Lecturer in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne
imageFacebook still needs humans after all.www.shutterstock.com

Facebook has recently come fire for not doing enough to keep disturbing content out of our newsfeeds. It hopes a hiring spree will fix the problem.

In a Facebook post Wednesday, company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to add an additional 3,000 moderators to its community...

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'A government without newspapers': why everyone should care about the cuts at Fairfax

  • Written by: Johan Lidberg, Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
imageFairfax Media journalists are on a week-long strike in response to the company's latest round of staff cuts.AAP/Joe Castro

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a...

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  3. Highlighting 'good and bad' debt will make it harder to fund social programs
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  5. China’s Eurasian gambit needs to be taken seriously
  6. Why biased budget forecasts make poor politics
  7. Explainer: how will the changes to HELP student loans affect you?
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  12. Can art put us in touch with our feelings about climate change?
  13. Mythbusting Ancient Rome - Caligula's Horse
  14. Three Little Words and Best Self Nonsense
  15. Abbott questions Turnbull's schools plan
  16. NATSEM models the impact of HELP changes
  17. Politics podcast: John Hewson on the budget climate
  18. Disappearing act: take two for the Moon and Regulus
  19. UNESCO report: surveillance and data collection are putting journalists and sources at risk
  20. The great Australian plays: sex, poetry and The Chapel Perilous
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  23. The government is swimming against the tide on Westpac's Adani decision
  24. History can provide many lessons for Turnbull as he prepares for Trump meeting
  25. Victorian budget splash raises questions about privatisation
  26. The future of Australian coal: an unbankable deposit
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  28. Found with cocaine in Colombia, we should presume Cassandra Sainsbury's innocence
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  36. New to Australia? Good luck! Migrants can no longer afford 'gateway' suburbs
  37. Curious Kids: Why don’t cats wear shoes?
  38. Bob Brown takes to the High Court to put hardline anti-protest laws to the test
  39. A new literary portrait of Helen Garner leaves you wanting to know more
  40. Protecting young people's privacy as Facebook claims it can identify their anxieties
  41. Turnbull announces schools funding and a new Gonski review
  42. Chasing the audience: is it over and out for cricket on free to air TV?
  43. Charter schools and vouchers not a solution for Australian schooling
  44. WA's economic mismanagement is not a reason to review how the GST is carved up
  45. Higher education reform: small changes for now but big ones to come
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