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Students say textbooks are too expensive – could an open access model be the answer?

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imagePaying for expensive textbooks could become a thing of the past.Flickr/Abstract Machine

For university students, textbooks have been both a saviour and a bane. Having most of the essential readings in a single volume enables students to access resources easily. Despite mostly being used for short periods of time, they come with a hefty price tag...

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Indigenous leader Pat Dodson is Shorten's 'captain's pick' for Senate

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Pat Dodson, the father of reconciliation, is set to become a Labor senator for Western Australia following Joe Bullock’s surprise announcement that he is quitting over the ALP’s position on same-sex marriage.

Dodson has been personally recruited by Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, who told a news conference he had asked for an early...

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  2. Could opposition to same-sex marriage be about the price of sex?
  3. How the political crises of the modern Muslim world created the climate for Islamic State
  4. Australia's recreational drug policies aren't working, so what are the options for reform?
  5. Cuts to WaterNSW's science staff will put Sydney's water quality at risk
  6. Apple, Google, Facebook: where would you put your money?
  7. Explainer: making waves in science
  8. Tony Abbott's nope, nope, nope moment on tax
  9. What do Mad Max's six Oscars mean for the Australian film industry?
  10. FactCheck: has Australian government spending as a share of GDP been at GFC levels since last election?
  11. Why Australians should care about Hollywood diversity
  12. Fifield wants media ownership changes passed before the election
  13. Explainer: what changes to Australia's media ownership laws are being proposed?
  14. Bird-brained and brilliant: Australia's avians are smarter than you think
  15. Fraudsters change tactics as a crackdown cuts some losses due to online scams
  16. We wouldn't be mourning lost languages if we embraced multilingualism
  17. New defence trade controls threaten academic freedom and the economy
  18. Rethinking 'small' business could drive a real ideas boom
  19. To believe or not to believe: child witnesses and the sex abuse royal commission
  20. True blood: cutting through confusion about pathology cuts
  21. Poor nutrition can put children at higher risk of mental illness
  22. How child support can better help single mothers
  23. Do over-the-counter weight-loss supplements work?
  24. The world's biggest source of freshwater is beneath your feet
  25. The Guardian's costly gap between traffic and profits
  26. Gender equality in the workplace can prevent violence against women
  27. Hanson-Young in preselection battle ahead of possible double dissolution
  28. Why we 'hate' certain birds, and why their behaviour might be our fault
  29. FactCheck: does Australia spend $1.5 billion a year on drug law enforcement, with 70% due to cannabis?
  30. Health Check: should children and adolescents lift weights?
  31. Blackface and blaming Indigenous health woes on culture are two sides of the same racist coin
  32. Your local train station can predict health and death
  33. Automation won't destroy jobs, but it will change them
  34. Powerful supermarkets push the cost of food waste onto suppliers, charities
  35. Have faith: civil religion can counter the lure of eternal life for jihadists
  36. The off-topic Conversation #82
  37. Sizing up the future for Australia's video game industry
  38. Diversity and local voices at risk as media owners aim to become emperors of everything
  39. Six burning questions for climate science to answer post-Paris
  40. Jobs don't need to be lousy
  41. Police drones: can we trust the eyes in the skies?
  42. Vale Shakespeare, the (not always) patriarchal Bard
  43. Marketers claim 5G will support the Internet of Things but is that really a thing?
  44. John Howard complicates Malcolm Turnbull's tax problems
  45. Former Australian Electoral Commission official says Senate voting change is 'incoherent'
  46. Is that muesli bar you put in your child's lunchbox actually healthy?
  47. Will Iñárritu win his fourth Oscar for The Revenant? Do you care?
  48. Clinton's brutal win in South Carolina, and how delegates are allocated
  49. Getting bike laws right means balancing rights of cyclists and motorists
  50. Oscars culture reveals our fascinating relationships with spectacle, fantasy and money

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