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Dhaka café attack: don't blame private education for radicalisation in Bangladesh

  • Written by M Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics and Deputy Director of the Centre for Poverty and Development Studies (CPDS), University of Malaya
imageBangladesh’s ruling party ministers say private schools and universities are responsible for the recent surge in terrorism, which includes the attack on a bakery in Dhaka.Suvra Kanti Das/Newzulu

Many experts and development organisations advocate greater provision of fee-charging for-profit schools in developing countries.

According to the...

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Politics podcast: Tom Calma says Nigel Scullion should go

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

The royal commission into the Northern Territory’s youth detention and child protection systems has had a shaky start. The Four Corners program that spurred the federal government into action has also raised questions about its previous knowledge of reports of abuse at the Don Dale detention centre.

Chancellor of the University of Canberra...

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Economists react: RBA cuts rates to 1.5%

  • Written by Jenni Henderson, Assistant Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation

The Reserve Bank of Australia has lowered the cash rate to 1.5% in an effort to stimulate growth, boost inflation and encourage a fall in the Australian dollar.

The cut of 25 basis points from 1.75% is the last decision from outgoing RBA Governor Glenn Stevens. In a statement on the rate decision he says:

“Low interest rates have been...

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The great movie scenes: Hitchcock's Vertigo

  • Written by Bruce Isaacs, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sydney
imageJames Stewart and Kim Novak in Vertigo (1958).Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

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

He starts here with Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) – recently voted the greatest film ever made in a...

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  1. Family First's Bob Day wins last SA Senate seat in shock result
  2. One in five police officers are at risk of PTSD – here's how we need to respond
  3. 'A wiseman's art': Twelfth Night and cross-mobility casting
  4. Are you ready for the jobs of the future?
  5. If Australia is going to have a plebiscite on marriage equality, how should it work?
  6. The electricity market's not doing a great job – here's how to improve it
  7. High speed rail plan still needs to prove economic benefits will outweigh costs
  8. Census 2016: should you be concerned about your privacy?
  9. China will be the winner if US backs out of the TPP
  10. Big retailers are realising the risk of moving into convenience stores
  11. Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
  12. Explainer: what is behavioural activation for depression?
  13. Mapping the brain: scientists define 180 distinct regions, but what now?
  14. Reimagining NSW: how good governance strengthens democracy
  15. Can we predict who will turn to crime?
  16. Nostalgia, VHS and Stranger Things' homage to 80s horror
  17. Sports coaches need to be educated about concussion to keep players safe on the field
  18. Russian doping scandal: should other countries pull out of the Olympics?
  19. WA Senate result: 5 Liberals, 4 Labor, 2 Greens, 1 One Nation
  20. The return of the breeze block
  21. The off-topic Conversation #104
  22. Windows 10 one year on: it's evolving but privacy still a concern
  23. Lichens may be a symbiosis of three organisms; a new Order of fungus named
  24. Janis Joplin and Sharon Jones add a feminist beat to the Melbourne Film Festival
  25. Juvenile detention royal commissioners must reach out to rebuild public trust
  26. Health Check: should we be using alcohol-based hand sanitisers?
  27. Gooda and White announced as heads of royal commission into NT youth detention
  28. Reimagining NSW: four ways to boost community well-being and why it matters
  29. Indonesia's new cabinet built on political transactions
  30. A complacent, secretive IMF failed to deal with EU crisis; what's changed?
  31. Commuters help regions tap into city-driven growth
  32. The casual stigmatisation of opioid use is lazy journalism
  33. Reimagining NSW: how the care economy could help unclog our cities
  34. Australia can learn from the limitations of New Zealand's welfare reforms
  35. Why it's so hard to 'eat local' when it comes to fish
  36. Childhood cancer deaths have fallen in Australia, but some types remain more of a challenge
  37. Please rewind: a final farewell to the VCR
  38. Should we be locking people up in prisons at all?
  39. Why arts schools matter, not just for art's sake but for urban renewal in Sydney and other cities
  40. Labor's Herbert win means Turnbull has a majority of only one
  41. Capitalism and Democracy [part 2]
  42. Why multicultural policy looms as a Senate bargaining chip
  43. Rudd correspondence to Turnbull: you said you supported me many times
  44. Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on the campaign for same-sex marriage
  45. Looking for a nursing home place for your parent with dementia? Here's what to consider
  46. Turnbull ban on Rudd's UN bid gives Liberal conservatives a win over Bishop
  47. Consumers lose out to Australia's protectionist anti-dumping laws
  48. The tragi-comedy Down Under appropriates Cronulla rather than offering insight
  49. As Indonesia conducts more executions, Australia's anti-death-penalty advocacy is still lacking
  50. Kevin gets canned

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