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Recognition: Yes or No? The ABC asks the wrong questions of the wrong people

  • Written by: Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Newcastle
imageThe format of the ABC program Recognition: Yes or No? is problematic, and the choice of voices particularly so.ABC Publicity

Tonight the ABC will broadcast Recognition: Yes or No?, a program following the joint travels of federal Labor MP Linda Burney and conservative commentator Andrew Bolt as they debate whether Indigenous peoples should be...

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To move forward on reconciliation, Australia must recognise it has a race relations problem

  • Written by: Daphne Habibis, Director, Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania
imageResearch shows most Indigenous people feel judged, stereotyped and disregarded by white people.AAP/Marianna Massey

We know a lot about what Australia’s non-Indigenous population thinks of Indigenous people, but not much is known about what Indigenous people think of the non-Indigenous population, or of how they experience race relations. This...

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Explainer: what are cataracts?

  • Written by: Jason Yosar, Associate Lecturer, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland
imageCataracts are one of the leading causes of visual impairment globally.Rakesh Ahuja, MD/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Nearly one-third of Australians aged 55 or over (or around 1.5 million people) have an untreated cataract. In 2013-14, there were 229,693 hospital admissions for cataract surgeries, making cataracts one of the most prevalent conditions...

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Academics are unhappy – it's time to transform our troubled university system

  • Written by: Richard Hil, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Human Serivces and Social Work, Griffith University
imageStudents and staff leading a protest at Sydney University on August 17, 2016.Richard Milnes/Newzulu

Australian academics are an unhappy lot. Numerous surveys, books and articles have drawn attention to this over the years.

The primary complaint is employment insecurity. This applies particularly to the reserve army of 67,000 casual staff who deliver...

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  1. The OzAsia Festival is young and confident – here are the shows to watch
  2. Barnaby Joyce's challenge: applying the whip to the Nationals' whip
  3. FactCheck Q A: Is Australia one of the few countries worldwide to accept foreign political donations?
  4. Can an app help us find mindfulness in today's busy high-tech world?
  5. FactCheck Q A: would the Constitution need to be changed to ban political donations from unions?
  6. Health Check: how do I know if I drink too much?
  7. The Paralympics is changing the way people perceive disabilities
  8. To cut urban sprawl, we need quality infill housing displays to win over the public
  9. The silencing of the seas: how our oceans are going quiet
  10. Australia's educational policies both embody and entrench low expectations of students
  11. Full response from a spokesperson for Doug Cameron
  12. Private resettlement models offer a way for Australia to lift its refugee intake
  13. Australia has an internationalisation, not an innovation and R D problem
  14. A degree doesn't count for South Sudanese job seekers
  15. Today's leaders could learn from Menzies, who built modern Australia without acting in haste
  16. Child sex abuse doesn't create paedophiles
  17. Gaps in education data: there are many questions for which we don't have accurate answers
  18. The great movie scenes: Antonioni's The Passenger
  19. Disruption over Macquarie Island calls for some clever Antarctic thinking
  20. 'Grotesque spectacle'? Rio has a long way to go to become more accessible
  21. Hard to see compromise on same-sex marriage plebiscite
  22. Here she comes again – how do we handle Pauline Hanson?
  23. Humans can make rockfalls from earthquakes more dangerous
  24. WA ReachTEL: Liberals stage big recovery to election winning position
  25. Community wellbeing best measured from the ground up: a Yawuru example
  26. Climate Policy’s House of Cards
  27. The strange case of Stephen Conroy's invisible resignation
  28. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on Turnbull's trip to the US
  29. Why we run Author Q As
  30. Paralympian role models: media hype, political rhetoric or the real deal?
  31. Attacks on renewable energy policy are older than the climate issue itself
  32. Lionel Shriver and the responsibilities of fiction writers
  33. The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness
  34. Callinan review largely backs Sydney lockout laws, but alcohol's role in family violence is a blind spot
  35. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's week of success
  36. Technology matters in the Paralympics, but the athlete matters more
  37. Unusual conditions: what are gigantism and acromegaly?
  38. Why are there so many species of bugs, but so few species of human?
  39. Rules of the Game: a disparate mix of ping-pong balls, paper and Pharrell Williams
  40. How Airbnb is reshaping our cities
  41. iPhone hack attack shows why we need to rein in the trade in spyware
  42. Crossroads program: should we teach children that gender identity is fluid? Here's what the research says
  43. Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims? The numbers tell a different story
  44. Insults, offence and words that wound: why language needs to be handled with care
  45. When globalisation meets entrepreneurship it can be a force for good
  46. Are we expelling too many children from Australian schools?
  47. Friday essay: science fiction's women problem
  48. Fashion police: new Queensland laws continue Australia's misguided war on bikies
  49. Explainer: how to prepare for a tsunami
  50. Bulging ear drums and hearing loss: Aboriginal kids have the highest otitis media rates in the world

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