Axing water overseer could leave regional Australia high and dry
By Stuart Khan
Summer is coming and, with it, dry conditions for many parts of Australia. While it may be difficult to imagine for city...
Pain and gain as gas export boom is set to drive up domestic bills
By David Blowers, Grattan Institute
Queensland’s liquid natural gas boom, built on the back of vast reserves of coal seam gas, will bring huge gains...
It’s too hard to love Primavera 2014 at Sydney’s MCA
By Kit Messham-Muir, University of Newcastle
Primavera is the Italian word for springtime, and each spring since 1992 the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney...
McCarthy sex toy sculpture Tree piques prickly French right
By Russell Williams, University of London Institute in Paris
Paul McCarthy, the granddaddy of shock conceptual art, has gone and done it again. In a...
New industry policy welcome, but reform process is just beginning
By Peter Gahan, University of Melbourne
The Abbott government’s Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda is an economic policy statement likely to define its term in...
Why do we find it so hard to write about ourselves?
By Jordan Gaines Lewis, Penn State College of Medicine
If you’ve ever applied for a job, you know how hard it is to write the...
Charter School Power Broker Turns Public Education Into Private Profits
by Marian Wang ProPublica, Oct. 15, 2014, 5:45 a.m.
Versions of this story were co-published with The Daily Beast and the Raleigh News & Observer.
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Giving patients control over their healthcare is a great aspiration, but do we mean...
By Brendan McCormack, Queen Margaret University
In mental health, a new approach to rehabilitating patients back into the community is gaining ground. Known as “the...
