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University completion rates won't be improved by looking at isolated causes

  • Written by: Tim Pitman, Researcher in Higher Education Policy, Curtin University
imageThere is often more than one factor at play when a student drops out of a university course. from www.shutterstock.com

News media are widely reporting on new data released by the government showing that one-third of students starting university in 2009 had not finished their studies within six years.

This stat makes a good headline, but...

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Celebrating the songs of Australia's civil rights movement

  • Written by: Deirdre O'Connell, PhD Candidate in History of Culture and Race, University of Sydney
imageDan Sultan played a defiant version of Midnight Oil’s The Dead Heart at 1967: Music in the Key of Yes.Prudence Upton

For two hours at Bennelong Point on Tuesday night, the Sydney Opera House rang out with songs of hope, empowerment, and freedom.

The occasion was 1967: Music in the Key of Yes, a concert to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967...

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Do 8 men really control the same wealth as the poorest half of the global population?

  • Written by: Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

A new Oxfam Report has a number of startling claims about wealth inequality around the world – the world’s eight richest people control the same wealth as the poorest half of the globe’s population, Australia’s two richest billionaires are wealthier than the bottom 20% of the population, while the two richest Canadians are...

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What's in store for new health minister Greg Hunt?

  • Written by: Jim Gillespie, Deputy Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Associate Professor in Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Greg Hunt was today announced as federal health (and sport) minister following Sussan Ley’s expenses scandal and subsequent resignation. Hunt will be the third minister to hold this portfolio since the Coalition was elected in 2013. Successful health ministers need well-honed political skills, a lot of patience and even more backbone for the...

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  2. What next for the ASX and Blockchain in 2017?
  3. FactCheck: what are the facts on rising child care prices?
  4. Xi Jinping may be preaching trade, but China's opening up has slowed
  5. When gentrification lacks empathy: a case study
  6. A genuinely believable CGI actor? It won't be long
  7. Ways to spend spare time online
  8. Unpaid work experience is widespread but some are missing out: new study
  9. Murky waters: why is Japan still whaling in the Southern Ocean?
  10. Turnbull makes a good start on expenses, but needs to go further
  11. Taking a VR trip in Shaun Gladwell's floating planetoid skull
  12. What’s the point of sex? It frames gender expression and identity – or does it?
  13. Why learn spelling or maths if there's an app for that?
  14. Brexit, Trump and the TPP mean Australia should pursue more bilateral trade agreements
  15. Australia needs to make sport a more equal playing field: here's why
  16. When politicians become pundits
  17. When the pressure is on, some riders breach the whip rules in horse racing
  18. The trouble with 'microaggressions'
  19. Let's kill the Australian identity card zombie once and for all
  20. Sit on hands or take a stand: why athletes have always been political players
  21. Elevated lead levels in Sydney backyards: here's what you can do
  22. When care becomes control - financial abuse cuts across cultures
  23. What's the point of sex? It's good for your physical, social and mental health
  24. Who was Mary? And how plausible is Colm Tóibín's reconstruction of her?
  25. Explainer: what is phonics and why is it important?
  26. A new twist on fusion power could help bring limitless clean energy
  27. What we can all learn from the VW emissions saga
  28. Scents, sensibility and the smell of a city
  29. ASIC needs a win in 2017, but it's not likely to come from the banks
  30. How wearable devices are reinventing our cities as open-air gyms
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  32. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder finally hits the big-data highway
  33. Heed Hawke's call – Australian federalism is an idea whose time has ended
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  35. What's the point of sex? It's communication at a biological level
  36. Game, set and match-fix: what more can be done to stop corruption in tennis?
  37. What can the medieval King Roger teach us about tolerance?
  38. Thinking about a sustainable retrofit? Here are three things to consider
  39. Australia must make the environment integral to economic decision-making
  40. Why did US President Obama seek to punish female Russian hacker Alisa Shevchenko?
  41. WA ReachTEL: 52-48 to Labor, but One Nation at 10.8%
  42. Ley goes, and Turnbull's reforms pave way for fewer expenses scandals
  43. Centrelink data-matching problems show the need for a government blockchain
  44. Should over 50’s avoid that afternoon coffee? Maybe.
  45. Trump, Putin and the new international order
  46. Indonesia’s Minangkabau culture promotes empowered Muslim women
  47. 9 ways 'won’t-power' is better than 'willpower' for resisting temptation and helping you eat better
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