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Time for the federal government to catch up on political donations reform

  • Written by: Carmela Chivers, Associate, Grattan Institute
Time for the federal government to catch up on political donations reformThe states have pulled far ahead of the Commonwealth on improving transparency around political donations.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Australians should be able to see who donates to political parties, but our political donations laws fall far short of this ideal. Recent reforms in New South Wales and Victoria mean that voters will have much better information...

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Ten reasons teachers can struggle to use technology in the classroom

  • Written by: Brendon Hyndman, Senior Lecturer and Course Director of Postgraduate Studies in Education, Charles Sturt University
Ten reasons teachers can struggle to use technology in the classroomIntegrating technology into the classroom can have huge benefits. But it's not always straight forward.from www.shutterstock.com

Somewhere in a school near you, a teacher is struggling to handle a query from a student whose laptop has a flat battery or another who’s watching a funny cat video on a phone. Perhaps the wireless internet...

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Too many Australians have to choose between heating or eating this winter

  • Written by: Rebecca Lindberg, Lecturer, Deakin University
Too many Australians have to choose between heating or eating this winterIf you worry about where your next meal will come from, you're not "food secure".Shutterstock

You’d expect a dual-parent family on a median income to be able to put enough healthy food on the table. But once the cost of housing, transport and school are covered, too many Australians are having to choose between heating or eating.

We’ve...

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How far have we come since the ’80s vision of the 'non-sexist city'?

  • Written by: Justine Lloyd, Lecturer in Sociology, Macquarie University
How far have we come since the ’80s vision of the 'non-sexist city'?If vintage city design used to trap women in suburbia, what's the modern city looking like?from shutterstock.com

In 1980, the feminist journal Signs published a visionary essay asking readers to imagine what a non-sexist city would be like. A then junior professor of urban planning at the University of California, Dolores Hayden, wrote the essay.

Hay...

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