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NDIS hiccups are expected, as with any large-scale social reform

  • Written by: Helen Dickinson, Associate Professor, Public Service Research Group, UNSW
imageThe NDIS rollout has been plagued with issues from the start.from shutterstock.com

The agreement to launch the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in 2012 was met with great excitement. It also came with large expectations about the transformation this would bring in terms of services and outcomes for people with disability.

Disability...

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Australia's back in the satellite business with a new launch

  • Written by: Andrew Dempster, Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
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The first Australian-built satellites to be launched in 15 years are set to take off this week from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Unlike the enormous satellites Australia uses for telecommunications, each of these new satellites is the size of a loaf of bread. But although small, they may provide a key step in enabling Australia’s entry into...

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Harrison Young appointed chairman of The Conversation

  • Written by: Misha Ketchell, Editor, The Conversation

Prominent banker Harrison Young has been appointed chairman of The Conversation. Young is a director of the Commonwealth Bank and was previously chairman of the nbn co limited, Morgan Stanley Australia and Better Place Australia.

Young, 72, was born in Pittsburg. He graduated from Harvard University and worked at the Washington Post before he was...

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  3. Australian politics explainer: the Labor Party split
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  6. Budget explainer: has there been a blowout in social security and welfare spending?
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  8. The 'clean coal' row shouldn't distract us from using carbon capture for other industries
  9. What science says about getting the most out of your tea
  10. Degrees of separation: companies shed degree requirements to promote merit over qualifications
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  12. When it comes to housing affordability debates, everything old is new again
  13. Science or snake oil: do meds like Remifemin ease hot flushes and night sweats in menopausal women?
  14. Australian politics explainer: how women gained the right to vote
  15. Death metal: how nickel played a role in the world's worst mass extinction
  16. What can the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals do for cities?
  17. Good Friday essay: Passion plays and the ethics of spectacular violence
  18. How to reclaim Easter from the chocolate companies
  19. How religion rises – and falls – in modern Australia
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  22. Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on Australian self-reliance
  23. Expert panel: ATO data shows inequality is in everything from super to the property market
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  27. Millions of rotting fish: turtles and crays can save us from Carpageddon
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  29. Explainer: the war in Syria and the possibility of removing Assad
  30. When it comes to euthanasia, not all slippery slope arguments are 'bullshit'
  31. Why does the Carmichael coal mine need to use so much water?
  32. Explainer: why some acts are classified as terrorism but others aren't
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  39. Australia’s climate bomb: the senselessness of Adani's Carmichael coal mine
  40. Attacking North Korea: surely Donald Trump couldn't be that foolish
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  42. Explainer: how wage growth contributes to the economy
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  44. How pop culture can (and should) change legal views on swearing
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