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Politics podcast: Andrew Giles on schools funding
Andrew Giles says the strong opposition from Catholic schools to the government's education package is because they were given 'almost no notice' of the funding changes.
The private equity consortium bidding for Fairfax has experience in media - and it’s not all bad.
Charles Meere’s painting Australian Beach Pattern is commonly seen as an iconic celebration of our beach culture. But a new book suggests this celebrated work expresses far darker concerns.
Australians are in favour of housing affordability changes that the government still doesn’t support, an ANU poll shows.
Image-based abuse, more commonly known as ‘revenge porn’, affects many Australians from across diverse communities and in different types of relationships.
It is gambling, especially online and mobile, that has come into focus as sport’s most potentially damaging byproduct.
The Turnbull government is desperately trying to develop a more convincing economic narrative around good economic management, nation-building and fairness.
The political legacy of Abbott’s broken promises contributed to Malcolm Turnbull’s near-death experience at last July’s federal election. ThisTurnbull government budget will be largely about burying the legacy of its predecessor.
Flying cars have been the stuff of science fiction for years, and now companies are now starting to look at such options. But what will it take to get our cars off the ground?
It’s a decade since US beekeepers first noticed that their bees were mysteriously dying. Now we know much more about Colony Collapse Disorder, raising hopes that we can turn bees’ fortunes around.
No wonder we’re addicted to junk food. Neuroscience shows food packaging affects our enjoyment of these foods, and plays on the same brain processes as hard drug addiction.
From environmentalism to the meaning of life, the themes of the world’s most ancient epic are still remarkably relevant to modern readers.
Owning a home has deep cultural and economic connotations. A home owner is a member of a street, a community. They are a successful adult human. They own a piece of the pie, the dream.
The agile working style was originally designed by tech companies for efficiency in software development but now one of Australia’s big four banks wants to implement this.
A broad process of communication and consultation should be initiated before gene drives are applied to control pests and diseases in Australia.
It’s not a new phenomenon that scientists who challenge the orthodoxy or policy positions suffer career ramifications.
We shouldn’t take the government’s own budgetary savings rationale at face value.
Polled economists say another independent body wouldn’t necessairly do a better job of economic forecasting for the budget than Treasury.
Investing in staging sport is ultimately a matter of turning the entire host environment into a stage.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Running shoes with springs in the soles have been touted as the next big thing in shoe design. But they won’t turn a weekend warrior into an Olympian.
When people do downsize, financial incentives are generally not the big things on their minds. And so most of the budget’s financial incentives will go to those who were going to downsize anyway.
Your cup of coffee might cost the world more than you think, but a little knowledge goes a long way if you want to make an eco-friendly choice.
The French must choose between two visions – one from Macron that looks externally to EU partners in trade and security, or one from Le Pen that closes France’s borders and yearns for a ‘Frexit’.