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racism, resilience and the right to belong

  • Written by: Kathomi Gatwiri, Lecturer, Southern Cross University

Review: Growing Up African in Australia, edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf


For many African-diaspora people in Australia, belonging means masking yourself. To fit in is to curate one’s Africanness and one’s blackness. You teach yourself to see-saw between the splitting identities of who Australia needs you to...

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What makes a school good? It's about more than just test results

  • Written by: Jen Jackson, Education Policy Lead, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
What makes a school good? It's about more than just test resultsA successful school isn't necessarily one that gets high test scores.from shutterstock.com

One of the more elusive goals of education research is answering the question: what makes one school perform better than another? The evidence base is growing, but so far the answer is: it depends.

School success depends on context. What works for one group...

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Jim Chalmers on Labor's budget reaction

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

Shadow Finance minister Jim Chalmers said Labor was looking for ways to make things fairer for low-income earners who were “largely left behind” in the government’s budget.

He told The Conversation the measures “would be through the tax system and would most likely be around the low and middle income tax offset which the...

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a vision for the arts in the 2019 budget

  • Written by: Peter Tregear, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
a vision for the arts in the 2019 budgetDancers perform a scene from the Sydney Dance Company's WOOF: the arts are one of the ways we make sense of our place in an increasingly confusing, and confused, world.Joel Carrett/AAP

It says something about the place of the arts in Australian public life that a federal budget speech delivered on the eve of an election chooses not to mention them....

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  1. ABC inquiry finds board knew of trouble between Milne and Guthrie, but did nothing
  2. Government gives Newstart recipients energy payment to smooth passage of legislation
  3. Voluntary assisted dying will soon be legal in Victoria, and this is what you need to know
  4. don't blame online for killing discount department stores
  5. The budget super change that helps the wealthy at the expense of the young
  6. Were you paying attention on budget night? Test yourself with this quiz
  7. Is bottom-pinching still 'indecent' by today's community standards?
  8. The first known case of eggs plus live birth from one pregnancy in a tiny lizard
  9. Going to the naturopath or a yoga class? Your private health won't cover it
  10. How Leonardo da Vinci made a living from killing machines
  11. Total transport spending is about par for the course, but the pattern is unusual
  12. Banning 'tiny vehicles' would deny us smarter ways to get around our cities
  13. women don't get a fair go in sports administration
  14. Budget 2019 has little new for schools and even less for early childhood: education experts respond
  15. Peter Martin and Tim Colebatch on budget strategy and numbers
  16. Budget 2019 boosts aged care and mental health, and modernises Medicare: health experts respond
  17. Congestion-busting infrastructure plays catch-up on long-neglected needs
  18. Michelle Grattan, Peter Martin and Tim Colebatch on the election-eve budget chock full of sweeteners
  19. Budget 2019 at a glance
  20. budget tax-upmanship as we head towards polling day
  21. Frydenberg’s budget looks toward zero net debt, but should this be our aim?
  22. Tax giveaways in Frydenberg’s 'back in the black' budget
  23. It’s the budget cash splash that reaches back in time
  24. Iron ore dollars repurposed to keep the economy afloat in Budget 2019
  25. The 39 endangered species in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and other Australian cities
  26. Zuckerberg's 'new rules' for the internet must move from words to actions
  27. The importance of sports in recovery from trauma: lessons from and for Christchurch
  28. Livestreaming terror is abhorrent – but is more rushed legislation the answer?
  29. The National is a time capsule of new Australian art in uncertain times
  30. Many professions have codes of ethics
  31. Married at First Sight - a 'social experiment' all but guaranteeing relationship failure
  32. a decent menu, but missing the main course
  33. in Denmark it is a term of affection
  34. Don't worry, a school library with fewer books and more technology is good for today's students
  35. Government's population plan is more about maximising 'win-wins' than cutting numbers
  36. TikTok is popular, but Chinese apps still have a lot to learn about global markets
  37. Labor's plan for transport emissions is long on ambition but short on details
  38. Erdogan tried to make local Turkish elections about national security, but it didn't work
  39. Mega study confirms pregnant women can reduce risk of stillbirth by sleeping on their side
  40. India destroys its own satellite with a test missile, still says space is for peace
  41. what should our maximum heart rate be during exercise?
  42. How to get ready as the US-China trade war spills over to other countries
  43. was he an environmentalist ahead of his time?
  44. Migrants want to live in the big cities, just like the rest of us
  45. Who do Chinese-Australian voters trust for their political news on WeChat?
  46. why do we have fingernails and toenails?
  47. How DNA ancestry testing can change our ideas of who we are
  48. Bleaching has struck the southernmost coral reef in the world
  49. It's time to lift the restrictions on medical abortion in Australia
  50. Expect a budget that breaks the intergenerational bargain, like the one before it, and before that

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