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Australia is very average when it comes to maths and science performance – here's what needs to change

  • Written by: Alan Finkel, Chief Scientist for Australia, Office of the Chief Scientist
imageAustralia is one of only three countries with significantly decreased maths and science scores in the latest round of PISA.from www.shutterstock.com

As a school student, I awaited the arrival of the end-of-year report with a bracing mix of hope and fear.

Now, as Australia’s Chief Scientist, I’m worried once again about school reports.

Our...

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Government calls for co-operation after hit with negative growth figure

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

After the national accounts showed economic activity contracted in the September quarter, Treasurer Scott Morrison called for “partners” in the parliament to drive the government’s economic plan through.

Real GDP contracted by 0.5% in the September quarter for only the fourth time since 1991. In the 12 months to the end of...

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Why the next editor-in-chief at The Age should be a woman

  • Written by: Andrea Carson, Lecturer, Media and Politics, School of Social and Political Sciences; Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
imageDespite its progressive nature, The Age newspaper has never had a female editor-in-chief.AAP/Mal Fairclough

The departing words of The Age’s editor-in-chief, Mark Forbes, who resigned this week amid allegations of sexual harassment, spoke to a gender ideal at a time of reputational damage for the newspaper:

… our dealings with all...

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Why are the best shut out? The sorry saga of performing arts funding in Australia

  • Written by: Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne
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…what is astonishing about this one is that there are nine actors of such calibre and experience. They are performing for a co-op share of the box office takings in a terrific production by Kim Hardwick of a complex and moving piece. Our mainstream theatres should do so well… you come away wondering what is happening to...

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  1. Keeping one step ahead of pollen triggers for thunderstorm asthma
  2. Where are the women scientists, tech gurus and engineers in our films?
  3. Periodontitis: why we need a vaccine for gum disease
  4. Coalition regains ground in Newspoll
  5. Hold pornography to account – not education programs – for children's harmful sexual behaviour
  6. These are the characteristics of people most likely to cut corners at work
  7. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 5
  8. The off-topic Conversation #113
  9. Australia's students are failing. I blame the politicians
  10. Turnbull government rules out an emissions intensity scheme
  11. Pavlov's plants: new study shows plants can learn from experience
  12. FactCheck: Is Australia’s use of antibiotics in general practice 20% above the OECD average?
  13. Regional Australia is crying out for equitable access to broadband
  14. Laughs, cries and deception: birds' emotional lives are just as complicated as ours
  15. It will take years to know whether New South Wales' shark nets are working
  16. Twitter influences investor behaviour whether companies intend it to or not: new research
  17. Remembering Peter Corrigan: a life of movement, energy and integrity
  18. We don't need greater access to Nembutal to achieve good end-of-life care
  19. Australia’s human rights debate has always been political
  20. PISA results don’t look good, but before we panic let’s look at what we can learn from the latest test
  21. Five ways to spend with more social purpose this Christmas
  22. Hanson thinks Culleton has swollen head
  23. Wings of desire, demise and adaptation: birds in Australian art
  24. First the word, then the deed: how an 'ethnocracy' like Australia works
  25. Traditional hunting gets headlines, but is not the big threat to turtles and dugongs
  26. What’s next for Italy?
  27. Does medical research funding need a paradigm shift?
  28. When planning falls short: the challenges of informal settlements
  29. Drugs for delirium don't work, and may in fact harm
  30. Why OPEC's squeeze on oil prices is getting weaker all the time
  31. Great Barrier Reef needs far more help than Australia claims in its latest report to UNESCO
  32. Australians can have zero-emission electricity, without blowing the bill
  33. 'We lost the house, we lost everything': what dealing with financial stress looks like
  34. The limits of empathy: Matthew Flinders' encounters with Indigenous Australians
  35. Listen up: running sounds contain clues for injury prevention
  36. Australia's political elites are fiddling while Rome burns
  37. Our ideas about vertebrate evolution challenged by a new tree of life
  38. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 4
  39. The 'no' vote in Italy's referendum triggers economic and political uncertainty
  40. Tipping the scales on Christmas Island: wasps and bugs use other species, so why can’t we?
  41. Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?
  42. Why we should no longer consider Last Tango in Paris 'a classic'
  43. Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution
  44. Abbott 'dismayed' by report of end of his Green Army
  45. Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010-11 has been undone by drought
  46. John Key quits while he's ahead – so what's next for New Zealand politics?
  47. Goodbye, Dolly, the magazine that helped so many young women grow up
  48. Financial wizardry alone won't stave off a Chinese debt crisis
  49. Could a cannabis pill reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting? Here's how we find out
  50. Health Check: do home remedies for common warts really work?

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