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women don't get a fair go in sports administration

  • Written by: Michelle O'Shea, Lecturer Sport Management, Western Sydney University
women don't get a fair go in sports administrationWomen in sports administration can be grilled about their ability to balance work and family responsibilities. from www.shutterstock.com

Women represent just 22% of board chairs and 13% of CEOs across more than 60 Australian sporting organisations.

Why is there such an imbalance? It may be because, in some sporting organisations, women do not get a...

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Budget 2019 has little new for schools and even less for early childhood: education experts respond

  • Written by: Peter Goss, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
Budget 2019 has little new for schools and even less for early childhood: education experts respondFrydenberg may claim education is critical to the prosperity of our country, but his budget does not reflect this.from shutterstock.com

In his first budget speech, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said education was the

first defence of the nation […] it is critical to our prosperity, harmony and advancement as a country.

Frydenberg said funding for...

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Peter Martin and Tim Colebatch on budget strategy and numbers

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

From inside the budget lockup, The Conversation’s Business and Economics editor Peter Martin and political and economic journalist Tim Colebatch from Inside Story shared their reactions to the pre-election budget.

Martin said the budget featured a substantial tax cut “that goes back in time” and that while the government was...

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Budget 2019 boosts aged care and mental health, and modernises Medicare: health experts respond

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
Budget 2019 boosts aged care and mental health, and modernises Medicare: health experts respondThe budget provides some short-term boosts aged care and mental health but little opportunity for much-needed structural reform. Shutterstock

This year’s budget includes $448.5 to modernise Australia’s Medicare system, by encouraging people with diabetes to sign up to a GP clinic for their care. The clinic will receive a lump sum...

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  1. Congestion-busting infrastructure plays catch-up on long-neglected needs
  2. Michelle Grattan, Peter Martin and Tim Colebatch on the election-eve budget chock full of sweeteners
  3. Budget 2019 at a glance
  4. budget tax-upmanship as we head towards polling day
  5. Frydenberg’s budget looks toward zero net debt, but should this be our aim?
  6. Tax giveaways in Frydenberg’s 'back in the black' budget
  7. It’s the budget cash splash that reaches back in time
  8. Iron ore dollars repurposed to keep the economy afloat in Budget 2019
  9. The 39 endangered species in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and other Australian cities
  10. Zuckerberg's 'new rules' for the internet must move from words to actions
  11. The importance of sports in recovery from trauma: lessons from and for Christchurch
  12. Livestreaming terror is abhorrent – but is more rushed legislation the answer?
  13. The National is a time capsule of new Australian art in uncertain times
  14. Many professions have codes of ethics
  15. Married at First Sight - a 'social experiment' all but guaranteeing relationship failure
  16. a decent menu, but missing the main course
  17. in Denmark it is a term of affection
  18. Don't worry, a school library with fewer books and more technology is good for today's students
  19. Government's population plan is more about maximising 'win-wins' than cutting numbers
  20. TikTok is popular, but Chinese apps still have a lot to learn about global markets
  21. Labor's plan for transport emissions is long on ambition but short on details
  22. Erdogan tried to make local Turkish elections about national security, but it didn't work
  23. Mega study confirms pregnant women can reduce risk of stillbirth by sleeping on their side
  24. India destroys its own satellite with a test missile, still says space is for peace
  25. what should our maximum heart rate be during exercise?
  26. How to get ready as the US-China trade war spills over to other countries
  27. was he an environmentalist ahead of his time?
  28. Migrants want to live in the big cities, just like the rest of us
  29. Who do Chinese-Australian voters trust for their political news on WeChat?
  30. why do we have fingernails and toenails?
  31. How DNA ancestry testing can change our ideas of who we are
  32. Bleaching has struck the southernmost coral reef in the world
  33. It's time to lift the restrictions on medical abortion in Australia
  34. Expect a budget that breaks the intergenerational bargain, like the one before it, and before that
  35. the rise and fall of the bad-tempered tabloids
  36. If we want students to feel safe at school, we can't encourage teachers to spot potential extremists
  37. how a 15th century artist dissected the human machine
  38. Settling migrants in regional areas will need more than a visa to succeed
  39. Shorten's climate policy would hit more big polluters harder and set electric car target
  40. Labor flags another budget in August as Frydenberg says his contains "a series" of living cost measures
  41. Why are we losing so many Indigenous children to suicide?
  42. Hannah Gadsby's follow-up to Nanette is an act of considered self-care
  43. Why we need to fix encryption laws the tech sector says threaten Australian jobs
  44. The government's electricity shortlist rightly features pumped hydro (and wrongly includes coal)
  45. Old man's beard is a star climber for Australian gardens
  46. The false hope offered by talk of a living wage
  47. Michelle Grattan on One Nation's NRA affair and the Morrison's coal offering
  48. what does it all mean for the 2019 federal election?
  49. The challenge of drawing a line between objectionable material and freedom of expression online
  50. The AFL and its clubs must continue to expose and sanction online trolls, it’s the law

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