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The three things universities must do to survive disruption

  • Written by: John Fischetti, Professor, Interim Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Education and Arts; Dean/Head of School of Education, University of Newcastle
The three things universities must do to survive disruptionMore people are learning what they want, wherever they want.Wes Mountain, The Conversation, CC BY-ND

This essay is part of a series of articles on the future of education.

The nature of global communication (for better and worse) has changed. Virtually all young people in Australia spend an average of nine hours a day online and about three hours of...

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What do Aboriginal Australians want from their aged care system? Community connection is number one

  • Written by: Tony Broe, Senior Principal Research Fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia
What do Aboriginal Australians want from their aged care system? Community connection is number oneThe Aged Care Royal Commission is currently looking at aged care for Indigenous Australians. From shutterstock.com

The Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population is ageing at a much faster rate than the non-Indigenous population.

Aboriginal Australians record high mid-life rates of multiple chronic diseases including heart disease...

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Setka gets backing from group of unions as split deepens

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

Several unions made a concerted strong stand of support for John Setka on Tuesday, as the executive of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union discussed the push against its embattled official.

Statements came from the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union Victorian branch, the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, the...

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US-Iran conflict escalates again, raising the threat of another war in the Middle East

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
US-Iran conflict escalates again, raising the threat of another war in the Middle EastThe United States' reinstitution of punitive sanctions is causing real hardship to Iranians.AAP/EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh

Let’s start with a number. On any given day, more than 17 million barrels of oil pass through what is known as the world’s most important chokepoint.

Those 17 million-plus barrels constitute about 20%, give or take a...

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  2. Turning local libraries, pools and playgroups into sites of surveillance – ParentsNext goes too far
  3. Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it work
  4. a stylish, enjoyable, historically informed opera premiere
  5. How to answer the argument that Australia's emissions are too small to make a difference
  6. Below zero is ‘reverse’. How the Reserve Bank would make quantitative easing work
  7. Five films not to miss from the 2019 Sydney Film Festival
  8. How advertising can repurpose itself to serve cities in more sustainable ways
  9. CSIRO Australian National Outlook 2019
  10. the first people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
  11. what is fibromyalgia, the condition Lady Gaga lives with?
  12. education divide explains the Coalition's upset victory
  13. forget court action – you won't win
  14. what is 'hybrid warfare' and what is meant by the 'grey zone'?
  15. Pressure builds with more protests in Hong Kong, but what's the end game?
  16. There's a looming waste crisis from Australia's solar energy boom
  17. who came up with the first letters?
  18. With climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spending
  19. how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice
  20. We asked people to do climate change maths. Their answers depended on their politics
  21. What's the point of education? It's no longer just about getting a job
  22. Beware the teething trap. Many products don't work, and can even be dangerous
  23. More students are going to university than before, but those at risk of dropping out need more help
  24. how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services
  25. The New York Times ends daily political cartoons, but it's not the death of the art form
  26. Young Australians champion 'democracy' and 'freedom' in designing constitutional change
  27. Australia's pristine beaches have a poo problem
  28. Lambie's vote key if government wants to have medevac repealed
  29. Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
  30. Setka furore opens division within the labour movement – and there is no easy solution
  31. Michelle Grattan on John Setka, press freedom, Adani approval and tax
  32. Built like buildings, boab trees are life-savers with a chequered past
  33. Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
  34. what it's like to be a pensioner renting privately as Australia's housing costs soar
  35. How a cyber attack hampered Hong Kong protesters
  36. is white meat as bad for your cholesterol levels as red meat?
  37. the all-knowing narrator in Kim Scott's Taboo
  38. City temperatures and city economics, a hidden relationship between sun and wind and profits
  39. Children with autism may use memory differently. Understanding this could help us teach them
  40. Sick with the flu? Here's why you feel so bad
  41. Barry Humphries' humour is now history – that's the fate of topical, satirical comedy
  42. the RBA's marching orders are no longer realistic. They'll have to change
  43. Adani is cleared to start digging its coal mine – six key questions answered
  44. Why too many fearless people on a team make collaboration less likely
  45. Racial abuse is rife in junior sports – and little is being done to address it
  46. 6 actions Australia's government can take right now to target online racism
  47. The battle to stare down the defiant John Setka
  48. Undocumented plant extinctions are a big problem in Australia – here’s why they go unnoticed
  49. Hong Kong in crisis over relationship with China – and there does not appear to be a good solution
  50. A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago

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