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One in five early childhood educators plan to leave the profession

  • Written by: Susan Irvine, Academic Coordinator, Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood), QUT Caboolture, Queensland University of Technology
imageThose teachers who upgraded to an early childhood teaching degree were most likely to leave the profession.from www.shutterstock.com

Despite lip service being paid to the importance of early education, little is being done to encourage early education staff to stay in the profession.

One in five early childhood educators plans to leave their job in...

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Referendum Day in the Dis-United Kingdom

  • Written by: John Keane, Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Finally. The finest hour. The day for which all brave and self-respecting Britons have long been waiting. Referendum Day. The pub happy hour when the proud People living under the Union Jack seize their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make things better. Have their Big Say. Forge a brighter future. Claw back their rightful sovereign power....

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No massacres and an accelerating decline in overall gun deaths: the impact of Australia’s major 1996 gun law reforms

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney

Twenty years ago, Australian federal, state and territory governments united to reform our firearm laws which had allowed easy access in some states to the military-style weapons of the sort used by the gunman in Orlando, Florida. The main provisions of the new laws included:

  • a ban on semi-automatic rifles and pump action shotguns, with a market...

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Labor moves its scare campaign onto vaccination register

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

Labor is broadening its “privatisation” scare campaign, claiming a tender for the new Australian School Vaccination Register could mean that for the first time the vaccination details of school-children might be in “for-profit” hands.

Health spokeswoman Catherine King has called on Malcolm Turnbull to guarantee the...

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  2. Managing same-sex marriage plebiscite would be a challenge for Turnbull within his own ranks
  3. The need for speed: there's still time to fix Australia's NBN
  4. Explainer: what is ‘value capture’ and what does it mean for cities?
  5. How is the UK's Brexit referendum different from Australian referendums?
  6. Why the Prime Minister's Literary Awards need an urgent overhaul
  7. The fossil-fuelled political economy of Australian elections
  8. Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship
  9. Weekly Dose: codeine doesn't work for some people, and works too well for others
  10. Here's a good news conservation story: farmers are helping endangered ecosystems
  11. Wall St might not be ready for a war on high-frequency trading
  12. Infographic: how much does Australia spend on science and research?
  13. The Indi Project: who do Indi voters trust to run the country?
  14. How a Brexit could impact on Australia
  15. Business Briefing: ASIC tries to prevent fintech startups from becoming scammers
  16. Listening but not hearing: process has trumped substance in Indigenous affairs
  17. Tackling Indigenous family violence needs more than band-aid solutions
  18. Are the Greens really the climate radicals we need?
  19. Should academics cite those who have breached moral and humane borders?
  20. New food labels should go further than country of origin
  21. Spacing of letters, not shape of letters, slightly increases reading speed of those with dyslexia
  22. Collecting data to help protect Australia's waters from toxic algal blooms
  23. Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with you
  24. Simple processing and clever apps? Don't hold your breath for a user-friendly Medicare IT system
  25. Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger
  26. Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll
  27. PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?
  28. Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes
  29. How should reading be taught in schools?
  30. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour
  31. NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances
  32. The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival
  33. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  34. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  35. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  36. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  37. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  38. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  39. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  40. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  41. Internships help students better manage their careers
  42. Explainer: the art of video game writing
  43. Why we regain weight after drastic dieting
  44. How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue
  45. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  46. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
  47. Turnbull admits to critic of marriage plebiscite: 'you make a powerful point'
  48. Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter
  49. Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health
  50. Response from Labor spokesperson

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