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To keep your curious kids happy these school holidays, check out Imagine This

  • Written by: Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling
To keep your curious kids happy these school holidays, check out Imagine ThisImagine This is a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on our Curious Kids articles. ABC/The Conversation

School holidays have rolled around again, and we’re here to help.

If you’re looking for ways to keep kids occupied on road trips or during long afternoons at home, we’d love you to check out an...

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Why the government will be sending more GST funding to Western Australia

  • Written by: John Freebairn, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne

If the Commonwealth government’s proposed reforms for the distribution of the GST revenue between the States and Territories is implemented, about a billion dollars a year of additional commonwealth funds will be spent to ensure “no state will be worse off”. But where the extra funds will come from is left to the imagination.

A...

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Michelle Grattan on Leyonhjelm's incivility and the government's need to appease on GST and energy

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

Michelle Grattan speaks with the Director of the University of Canberra’s Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis Mark Evans about the week in Australian politics. They discuss Senator David Leyonhjelm’s offensive comments to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, the government’s planned GST reform, and Tony Abbott’s calls for...

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Politics Podcast: Katharine Murphy 'On Disruption'

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Politics Podcast: Katharine Murphy 'On Disruption'

A recording of a conversation with Katharine Murphy, the Political Editor of The Guardian Australlia about her new book ‘On Disruption’. Murphy’s book is about the dramatic changes that have taken place in the media and their implications, and is published by Melbourne University Press.

This conversation was hosted by Australian...

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