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Gaps in education data: there are many questions for which we don't have accurate answers

  • Written by Stacey Fox, Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
imageEducation policy can't get off the ground because of a lack of good data.from www.shutterstock.com

Too many questions in education remain unanswered.

Without access to good data and evidence we cannot make informed education policy decisions, or invest limited resources where they will have the biggest impact.

What is the issue?

Australia generally...

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The great movie scenes: Antonioni's The Passenger

  • Written by Bruce Isaacs, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sydney
imageJack Nicholson gave perhaps his greatest performance as journalist David Locke. Youtube

What makes a film a classic? In this monthly column, film scholar Bruce Isaacs looks at a single sequence from a classic film and analyses its brilliance.

This month he looks at Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger (1975), a film which featured Jack...

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Disruption over Macquarie Island calls for some clever Antarctic thinking

  • Written by Indi Hodgson-Johnston, Antarctic Law and Policy Researcher, Polar Research and Policy Initiative, University of Tasmania

The fate of the Australian Antarctic Division’s research base on Macquarie Island hangs in the balance, after last week’s surprise announcement that it would close in March 2017 was followed on Friday by a suggestion that the government could yet reprieve it.

Why all the fuss over a scattering of buildings on a windswept island...

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'Grotesque spectacle'? Rio has a long way to go to become more accessible

  • Written by Tracey J Dickson, Associate Professor, Centre for Tourism Research, Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra
imageRio is an old city, with dense areas such as the Rocinha favela. Making it accessible is no small ask.Sean Fitzgerald Follow/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

It was quite a reality check. With one phrase, “Espetáculo grotesco” (“grotesque spectacle”), Portuguese journalist Joaquim Vieira created a major controversy with his...

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  1. Hard to see compromise on same-sex marriage plebiscite
  2. Here she comes again – how do we handle Pauline Hanson?
  3. Humans can make rockfalls from earthquakes more dangerous
  4. WA ReachTEL: Liberals stage big recovery to election winning position
  5. Community wellbeing best measured from the ground up: a Yawuru example
  6. Climate Policy’s House of Cards
  7. The strange case of Stephen Conroy's invisible resignation
  8. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on Turnbull's trip to the US
  9. Why we run Author Q As
  10. Paralympian role models: media hype, political rhetoric or the real deal?
  11. Attacks on renewable energy policy are older than the climate issue itself
  12. Lionel Shriver and the responsibilities of fiction writers
  13. The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness
  14. Callinan review largely backs Sydney lockout laws, but alcohol's role in family violence is a blind spot
  15. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's week of success
  16. Technology matters in the Paralympics, but the athlete matters more
  17. Unusual conditions: what are gigantism and acromegaly?
  18. Why are there so many species of bugs, but so few species of human?
  19. Rules of the Game: a disparate mix of ping-pong balls, paper and Pharrell Williams
  20. How Airbnb is reshaping our cities
  21. iPhone hack attack shows why we need to rein in the trade in spyware
  22. Crossroads program: should we teach children that gender identity is fluid? Here's what the research says
  23. Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims? The numbers tell a different story
  24. Insults, offence and words that wound: why language needs to be handled with care
  25. When globalisation meets entrepreneurship it can be a force for good
  26. Are we expelling too many children from Australian schools?
  27. Friday essay: science fiction's women problem
  28. Fashion police: new Queensland laws continue Australia's misguided war on bikies
  29. Explainer: how to prepare for a tsunami
  30. Bulging ear drums and hearing loss: Aboriginal kids have the highest otitis media rates in the world
  31. Drilling in the Bight: has BP learnt the right lessons from its Gulf of Mexico blowout?
  32. Kangaroo Island's choice: a new cable to the mainland, or renewable power
  33. Vital Signs: flat employment remains worrying for Australia
  34. What comes after the Paralympics? How sport and study can enhance each other
  35. Grattan on Friday: The Turnbull government begins to wash its face
  36. Winners and losers from the government's compromise on superannuation
  37. Valerie Amos: 'academic freedom and freedom of speech must be protected and respected'
  38. State aid lessons for Australia from the Apple EU tax case
  39. Why Australians should say 'Yes' to the same-sex marriage plebiscite
  40. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, August 2016
  41. Take control over the end of your life: what you need to know about advance care directives
  42. When process becomes product – repacking science communication
  43. NHMRC fluoride paper: relax, Australian citizens, your pineal glands are safe
  44. After Tasmania's year of disasters, bushfire tops the state's growing list of natural hazards
  45. Race to the White House – Episode One
  46. Social media and defamation law pose threats to free speech, and it's time for reform
  47. FactCheck: Have eight of Australia's 12 most emission intensive power stations closed in the last five years?
  48. Breaking news: marriage has very little to do with religion (and vice versa)
  49. Media owners steer government away from reform in the public interest
  50. Why are Aboriginal children still dying from rheumatic heart disease?
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