As recently reported in The Australian Financial Review, autism costs the National Disability Insurance Scheme more than $10 billion annually. A record 62,500 people …
A brief glance at the past fortnight’s headlines is revealing. High-speed rail is connecting Sydney to Newcastle. A Regional Australia Institute poll shows Gen Z is interested in moving …
We have a great window of opportunity now to finally follow through on education reforms and get long-term improvements for Australia’s education system. Let’s not waste it like we’ve wasted billions of dollars before on ideas that don’t work.
When a society forgets the difference between learning and performance, between a mind and a computer algorithm, the result isn’t progress; it’s parody.
The government has been rightly blamed for fuelling the inflation flames with too rapid growth of its own spending. This has come not just from the federal government but from several state governments as well.
The decisions that made higher rates unavoidable were taken in Canberra. If inflation is the fire, interest rates are the fire brigade. Labor lit the match.
Jim Chalmers doesn’t have a central bank governor to blame for his forward misguidance or for his complaint that monetary policy may be “smashing the economy”.
Morrison deserves credit for insisting accusations of Islamophobia must not shut down necessary debate. But if this conversation is to lead anywhere constructive, it must move beyond symbolic architecture and confront a harder truth
The problem is not academic freedom itself. The problem is that universities have forgotten what it means and, just as importantly, what it does not.
If Australia wants productivity growth, it needs to start in the classroom.