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We can all help to improve communication for people with disabilities

  • Written by: Bronwyn Hemsley, Professor of Speech Pathology, University of Technology Sydney
We can all help to improve communication for people with disabilitiesCommunication involves a lot more than words. from www.shutterstock.com

Around 5% of the population, or 1.2 million Australians have a communication disability. Communication disability can arise if a person has a health condition affecting their speech, language, listening, understanding, reading, writing, or social skills.

Communication disability...

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Behrouz Boochani's unsparing look at the brutality of Manus Island

  • Written by: Alex Reilly, Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide

It is a matter of wonder that Behrouz Boochani was able to write No Friend but the Mountains at all. He did so while in Manus prison, using text messages in Farsi on smuggled mobile phones. Egyptian and Australian academic Omid Tofighian worked closely with Boochani to translate the text into English. In a detailed introduction to the book,...

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a few weeks late, but otherwise little change from previous years

  • Written by: Glenn C. Savage, ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and Sociology of Education, University of Western Australia
a few weeks late, but otherwise little change from previous yearsThe current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don't.www.shutterstock.com

This year’s NAPLAN results have finally landed. The results are a few weeks behind schedule, due to disagreement over how scores should be reported between the body...

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Malcolm Fraser's political manifesto would make good reading for the Morrison government

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
Malcolm Fraser's political manifesto would make good reading for the Morrison governmentMembers of the Liberal Party’s latter-day "broad church" could do worse than secure copies of these Malcolm Fraser's manifesto for a new political party.AAP/ Luis Enrique Ascui

Malcolm Fraser died on March 20, 2015, just a little more than three years ago. One can only speculate what he would have made of a three-year Malcolm Turnbull...

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  1. Drought is inevitable, Mr Joyce
  2. why the rock art of Murujuga deserves World Heritage status
  3. Would an eruption in Melbourne really match Hawaii's volcanoes? Here's the evidence
  4. How to get children to eat a rainbow of fruit and vegetables
  5. Turnbull resigning seat on Friday, giving Morrison a real-time voting test
  6. what Turnbull's urban policy has achieved, and where we go from here
  7. Amid blackout scare stories, remember that a grid without power cuts is impossible... and expensive
  8. Australian archaeologists dropped the term 'Stone Age' decades ago, and so should you
  9. Michelle Grattan on the Liberals’ implosion
  10. Australians think our politicians are corrupt, but where is the evidence?
  11. how long are you contagious with gastro?
  12. Business owners' control of their work-life balance is the fine line between hard work and hell
  13. Here's how to reset New Zealand’s cultural diplomacy in the Pacific
  14. Australia was founded on a hypocrisy that haunts us to this day
  15. Do butterflies remember being caterpillars?
  16. If the Liberals have any hope of rebuilding, they might take lessons from Robert Menzies
  17. Cycle, walk, drive or train? Weighing up the healthiest (and safest) ways to get around the city
  18. People who see men and women as fundamentally different are more likely to accept workplace discrimination
  19. small, social programs can help get seniors online
  20. how corporations 'nudge' us into spending more
  21. Furious voters deliver their verdict, with government's huge Newspoll plunge
  22. Julie Bishop goes to backbench, Marise Payne becomes new foreign minister
  23. The Life to Come - this year's Miles Franklin winner
  24. The Lord Howe screw pine is a self-watering island giant
  25. A shocker performance, even by coup standards
  26. With a new prime minister nominated, the Nationals have a rare chance to assert themselves
  27. a new podcast from The Conversation
  28. Memo Scott Morrison: don't chase the 'base'
  29. From Benang to Taboo, Kim Scott memorialises events we don't want to remember
  30. How the hard right terminated Turnbull, only to see Scott Morrison become PM
  31. do their employees have the power?
  32. How hydrogen power can help us cut emissions, boost exports, and even drive further between refills
  33. Scott Morrison is the new Prime Minister after Peter Dutton's giant miscalculation
  34. What kind of prime minister will Scott Morrison be?
  35. Turnbull's problem was that he was a politician for another era
  36. Crazy Rich Asians is a great moment for representation -- but slides over some important questions
  37. Solicitor-General supports Dutton's eligibility for parliament, but with caveats
  38. The economics of Australia's too-common leadership spills
  39. Liberals manage the ugliest, messiest leadership challenge in history
  40. the meaning of food in crime fiction
  41. What causes asthma? What we know, don't know and suspect
  42. it's time to discuss a new framework for central banking
  43. what you didn't know about diamonds
  44. Why queues for women's toilets are longer than men's
  45. A Dutton win would give the conservatives a strangleold on the Liberal party's throat
  46. 'Balmain basket weavers' strike again, tearing the Liberal Party apart
  47. How the right-wing media have given a megaphone to reactionary forces in the Liberal Party
  48. Australia should stay away from electronic voting
  49. Solicitor-General's advice on Dutton's eligibility to come before Friday Liberal vote
  50. Companies keep slashing jobs, but new technologies won't replace good management

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