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How should reading be taught in schools?

  • Written by: Misty Adoniou, Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
imageSix year olds are deciding whether they are good readers or not based on how many books they've read.from www.shutterstock.com

When my son was nine years old, he put aside the large Harry Potter novel he had been slowly, but enthusiastically, reading each evening and instead began ploughing through lots of fairly uninspiring books that he brought...

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NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances

  • Written by: Gregory Melleuish, Associate Professor, School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong

At the most basic level a government budget is about two things: revenue and spending. True happiness, as Mr Micawber would say, lies in ensuring that outgoings do not exceed what comes in.

Under that definition NSW treasurer Gladys Berejiklian would be very happy today, having handed down a budget with a surplus of $3.4 billion this financial year...

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The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival

  • Written by: Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageSuntan, starring Makis Papadimitriou, is one of the better films in this year's Sydney Film Festival. Supplied

The Sydney Film Festival always presents an exciting panoply of films – though these are limited, mostly, to the non-experimental and the commercial – and this year was no exception.

From the 40 films I attended, the following...

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  1. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  2. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  3. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  4. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  5. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  6. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  7. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  8. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  9. Internships help students better manage their careers
  10. Explainer: the art of video game writing
  11. Why we regain weight after drastic dieting
  12. How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue
  13. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  14. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
  15. Turnbull admits to critic of marriage plebiscite: 'you make a powerful point'
  16. Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter
  17. Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health
  18. Response from Labor spokesperson
  19. Election FactCheck Q A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?
  20. Little difference between Labor and the Coalition's jobs programs for young people
  21. Eddie McGuire, Caroline Wilson and when 'playful banter' goes very, very wrong
  22. Here’s looking at: Edgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath sponging her neck
  23. Health Check: what is the common cold and how do we get it?
  24. Lessons from the Depression era in how to lose government in a single term
  25. Large growth in student numbers is threatening sustainability of university system
  26. The off-topic Conversation #98
  27. Coalition leads in ReachTEL, but not in other polls
  28. Election explainer: how does the Senate count work?
  29. To Elle and Back: Reviewing the reviewers
  30. What sort of Reserve Bank governor will Philip Lowe be?
  31. Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent – on social policy
  32. The growing cost of internships could add to inequality
  33. A fanfare of failures: why celebrate Florence Foster Jenkins and Eddie the Eagle?
  34. Science or snake oil: is Garcinia cambogia the magic weight-loss pill it's hyped up to be?
  35. Catholic church starts small but is clearly thinking big on fossil fuel divestment
  36. UFOs, climate change and missing airliners: how to separate fact from fiction
  37. Shorten seeks to keep alive hope of a Labor win
  38. Bill Shorten's campaign pitch: don't risk Medicare under the Liberals
  39. On track for the Rio Olympics? IAAF ban means Russian athletes may not compete
  40. In the world's biggest city, the past offers lessons for surviving the future
  41. Shorten plays Facebook game, telling people to hit Like
  42. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, May 2016
  43. A new normal, as Basslink finally resumes
  44. Cattle 'sledgehammering' in Vietnam raises yet more questions over live export
  45. From the Queen of Sheba to Jeffrey Smart: how art shaped Bruce Beresford
  46. The problem with reinforced concrete
  47. Spiny crayfish and their flatworm friends: an ancient partnership revealed
  48. Uncapping of university places achieved what it set out to do. So why is it dubbed a policy failure?
  49. Vital Signs: an election in Australia, a key poll in the UK, all lead to uncertainty
  50. Both parties to launch in western Sydney, the symbolic heartland of uncommitted but powerful voters

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Options Available When a Company Faces Financial Distress

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