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Why kickstarting small business exports could boost stagnant wages

  • Written by: Giovanni Di Lieto, Lecturer of international trade law, Monash Business School, Monash University
Why kickstarting small business exports could boost stagnant wagesLarge companies control 88% of the agricultural export market.Shutterstock

Prioritising exports by small and medium businesses would boost wages, according to our work for an ongoing parliamentary inquiry.

Smaller Australian businesses have disproportionately low levels of exports. This is despite being more profitable and productive than larger...

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how Australian museums regulate the display of human remains

  • Written by: Eugenia Pacitti, PhD Candidate in History, Monash University
how Australian museums regulate the display of human remains

Protesters are urging a boycott of Real Bodies: The Exhibition, which recently opened in Sydney, due to the possibility that the plastinated human bodies and organs on display were taken without consent from executed Chinese political prisoners.

The chief executive of the company behind Real Bodies, Tom Zaller, has defended the exhibition. He...

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how to deal with aggression, tantrums and defiance

  • Written by: David J Hawes, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Sydney
how to deal with aggression, tantrums and defianceChildren can become more and more skilled in the art of oppositional behaviour, and increasingly harder to discipline. Suzanne Tucker/Shutterstock

Anyone who has raised children or grown up with siblings knows there are some bumpy times in a child’s life. When the smallest upset causes a major tantrum. Or when it’s close to impossible...

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Gonski review attacks Australian schooling quality and urges individualised teaching approach

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

The Gonski review into the quality of Australian schooling has highlighted declining academic performance and recommended school education be radically reformed to tailor teaching and assessment to individual students.

The damning report, released on Monday, says the decline is widespread and “equivalent to a generation of Australian school...

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