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$500 million for the Great Barrier Reef is welcome, but we need a sea change in tactics too

  • Written by: Jon Brodie, Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
$500 million for the Great Barrier Reef is welcome, but we need a sea change in tactics tooThe new funding is focused on measures that are already in the foreground.Robert Linsdell/Flickr, CC BY

The federal government’s announcement of more than A$500 million in funding for the Great Barrier Reef is good news. It appears to show a significant commitment to the reef’s preservation – something that has been lacking in...

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Rio Tinto's climate change resolution marks a significant shift in investor culture

  • Written by: Anita Foerster, Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

What does the advocacy group the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) have in common with the Local Government Super fund, the Church of England Pensions Board, and the Seventh Swedish National Pension Fund?

Quite a lot, it seems. These three institutional investors joined with the ACCR to co-file a shareholder resolution on...

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teaching creativity and critical thinking through the curriculum is already happening

  • Written by: Bill Louden, Emeritus professor, University of Western Australia

David Gonski’s report on Australia’s schooling system identifies three key weaknesses and proposes a set of pathways towards improvement.

These weaknesses include decline in student achievement over time, age-based rather than developmental approaches to differentiation in learning goals, and failure to prepare students for a complex...

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the politics of sugar, sugary drinks and poor nutrition in Australia

  • Written by: Phillip Baker, Alfred Deakin Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University
the politics of sugar, sugary drinks and poor nutrition in AustraliaThe sugar industry has a lot of influence over health policy.from shutterstock.com

Unhealthy diets and poor nutrition are leading contributors to Australia’s burden of disease and burgeoning health-care costs. In 1980, just 10% of Australian adults were obese, today that figure is 28% – among the highest in the world.

And yet, as shown...

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  1. The politics behind the competitive neutrality inquiry into ABC and SBS
  2. where they come from and why they still matter
  3. Why your app is updating its privacy settings and how this will affect businesses
  4. gay conversion therapy's deep roots in Australia
  5. DNA facial prediction could make protecting your privacy more difficult
  6. Why some students are excluded from university later in their degree, and how to remedy it
  7. Cannes is right, Netflix movies just aren't the same
  8. Legal precedent based on false beliefs proves hard to overturn
  9. After damning the Commonwealth Bank's management, regulators want the bank to fix itself
  10. Labor MP Tim Hammond quits for family reasons, creating byelection in WA
  11. I go to the gym every day. Why can’t I lose weight?
  12. Greens urge Buffett rule to get more tax from high income earners
  13. Debunking three common myths about divorce and abuse in Muslim communities
  14. Recent Australian droughts may be the worst in 800 years
  15. Is your genome really your own? The public and forensic value of DNA
  16. The government could be boosting the budget bottom line with a change to how it taxes gas
  17. Still Point Turning is a vital affirmation of trans people through the story of Catherine McGregor
  18. what works and what to keep in mind when choosing a private treatment provider
  19. six rules for improving city bus services
  20. The waves of "reputational damage" spread far and wide
  21. Want to eat better? You might be able to train yourself to change your tastes
  22. Australia's reptiles may be spreading rat poison through the food chain
  23. Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data
  24. eSports are shifting the focus of Australia's sporting passion
  25. Planet Earth II Live unites art and science in a celebration of nature
  26. APRA and ASIC have the legal power to sack bank heads, but they need willpower
  27. It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements
  28. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: 'Dancing out of depression'
  29. To create safer cities for everyone, we need to avoid security that threatens
  30. The big four accounting firms struggle to shake their sexist pasts
  31. As Emmanuel Macron heads to Australia, the relationship is more important than ever
  32. Counting the costs of illness and injury on Australian workers
  33. With support for arts funding declining, Australia must get better at valuing culture
  34. Signals from a spectacular neutron star merger that made gravitational waves are slowly fading away
  35. but do we really need it?
  36. bandicoots live among us in Melbourne
  37. five articles to get you informed on sugar and Big Sugar's role in food policy
  38. There is still no US Ambassador to Australia, but it is neither an insult nor a concern
  39. Launching in May, the InSight mission will measure marsquakes to explore the interior of Mars
  40. the World Expo reshaped Brisbane because no one wanted the party to end
  41. Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities' social cohesion
  42. In the debate about Australian content on TV, we need to look further than the ABC
  43. Why does ice make a cracking sound when water is poured on it?
  44. why is it increasing and who benefits?
  45. Why kickstarting small business exports could boost stagnant wages
  46. how Australian museums regulate the display of human remains
  47. how to deal with aggression, tantrums and defiance
  48. Gonski review attacks Australian schooling quality and urges individualised teaching approach
  49. North and South Korea met
  50. AI can help in crime prevention, but we still need a human in charge

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