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With support for arts funding declining, Australia must get better at valuing culture

  • Written by: Peter Tregear, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne

Governments at all levels allocate around $6 billion a year to arts and culture in Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. While this is a low figure compared to the budget outlays of other wealthy nations, public support for arts funding here is, if anything, in decline.

A new Platform Paper by economist David Throsby argues...

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Signals from a spectacular neutron star merger that made gravitational waves are slowly fading away

  • Written by: Tara Murphy, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
Signals from a spectacular neutron star merger that made gravitational waves are slowly fading awayNeutron star merger.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

Eight months ago, the detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger had us and other astronomers around the world rushing to observe one of the most energetic events in the universe.

What most people don’t realise is that we continued to observe the...

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but do we really need it?

  • Written by: Glenn C. Savage, Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and Sociology of Education, and ARC DECRA Fellow (2016-19), University of Western Australia

Today’s release of the report from the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools (also known as Gonski 2.0) proves sceptics both right and wrong. In many ways, the report reflects a smorgasbord of popular ideas that have been doing the rounds for some time.

These include Professor John Hattie’s mantra that young...

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bandicoots live among us in Melbourne

  • Written by: Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
bandicoots live among us in MelbourneYoung southern brown bandicoots (Isoodon obesulus obesulus), an endangered marsupial species living in outer MelbourneSarah Maclagan, Author provided

There are more and more of us on Earth, and increasingly we’re choosing to live in cities. This is a problem for wildlife: urbanisation is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. Sprawling...

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  2. There is still no US Ambassador to Australia, but it is neither an insult nor a concern
  3. Launching in May, the InSight mission will measure marsquakes to explore the interior of Mars
  4. the World Expo reshaped Brisbane because no one wanted the party to end
  5. Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities' social cohesion
  6. In the debate about Australian content on TV, we need to look further than the ABC
  7. Why does ice make a cracking sound when water is poured on it?
  8. why is it increasing and who benefits?
  9. Why kickstarting small business exports could boost stagnant wages
  10. how Australian museums regulate the display of human remains
  11. how to deal with aggression, tantrums and defiance
  12. Gonski review attacks Australian schooling quality and urges individualised teaching approach
  13. North and South Korea met
  14. AI can help in crime prevention, but we still need a human in charge
  15. where to find a puffer jacket that doesn't warm the Earth
  16. Michelle Grattan on the government abandoning the Medicare levy
  17. do we need company tax cuts?
  18. How injuries change our brain and how we can help it recover
  19. Why Democrats have filed a lawsuit against Russia – and what Australian politicians should learn from it
  20. Interest only loans are an economic debacle that could bust the property market
  21. how pleasure affects our brain
  22. China's recycling 'ban' throws Australia into a very messy waste crisis
  23. It's funny to name species after celebrities, but there's a serious side too
  24. Designing the compassionate city to overcome built-in biases and help us live better
  25. Friday essay: recovering a narrative of place
  26. Museum or not? The changing face of curated science, tech, art and culture
  27. Banning soldiers displaying death symbols is about the right military mindset, not political correctness
  28. Can the Turnbull government make the election all about tax?
  29. Pregnant women are at increased risk of domestic violence in all cultural groups
  30. How courts and costs are undermining ASIC and the ACCC's efforts to police misbehaving banks and businesses
  31. How 'new power' is driving journalism in the digital age
  32. Kidnapped democracy: how can citizens escape?
  33. Some women feel grief after an abortion, but there's no evidence of serious mental health issues
  34. Academics call on Facebook to make data more widely available for research
  35. Experiment shows Einstein's quantum 'spooky action' approaches the human scale
  36. can they make us smarter?
  37. As a new defence chief comes in, Australia must focus its attention on its neighbours
  38. do we need ribbon-cutting infrastructure for jobs and growth?
  39. Where has Melbourne's political graffiti gone?
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  42. Turnbull government abandons $8.2 billion Medicare levy increase
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  44. Clarrie Combo, Mrs Brown and Aboriginal soldiers in WW2
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