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Explainer: What is a 'Gonski' anyway?

Explainer: What is a 'Gonski' anyway?

20 April 2013, 10:00 AM

Australia | To understand the significance of the Gonski school funding reforms, you need to understand how the current system works.
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Boston bombing: desperately seeking faces in the crowd

Boston bombing: desperately seeking faces in the crowd

19 April 2013, 15:00 PM

More evidence will be found in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing, but it is perfectly clear, even at this early stage, that CCTV evidence is once again playing a pivotal role.
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Funding cuts pose challenges for the university business model

Funding cuts pose challenges for the university business model

19 April 2013, 15:00 PM

Australia | As state premiers meet to thrash out an agreement on funding the Gonski school reforms, universities have been gnashing their teeth at being the losers in the funding equation. Read more

Honey could be a potent medicine as well as a tasty treat

Honey could be a potent medicine as well as a tasty treat

19 April 2013, 15:00 PM

Australia | Although honey appears to be a collection of sugars, it contains a range of unusual simple sugars as well as oligosaccharides, natural compounds and glucose oxidase. These features have little nutritional relevance but may be important in the topical use of honey.
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Comment: Abbott signals shift on gay marriage

Comment: Abbott signals shift on gay marriage

19 April 2013, 14:00 PM

Australia | In another step on the road to a likely eventual change in the Australian law, Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, now says the policy on the same-sex marriage will be decided by the party room after the election. Read more

Wave variations may affect coasts

Wave variations may affect coasts

19 April 2013, 14:00 PM

Australia | Much attention has been paid to sea-level rises, but variations in wave types may also have a big effect on coastal areas. Read more

Chemical reactions in Arctic affect planet

Chemical reactions in Arctic affect planet

19 April 2013, 13:00 PM

Scientists in the Arctic look at chemical reactions that act as cleaning agents for our atmosphere. Read more

Why was the Texas fertiliser plant explosion so deadly?

Why was the Texas fertiliser plant explosion so deadly?

19 April 2013, 13:00 PM

At least 14 people – including a number of emergency services crew – died in an massive explosion on Wednesday night at a fertiliser plant in in the small town of West near Waco, Texas. So what made the blaze so deadly, and could a similar loss of life happen in Australia? Read more

Babies develop conscious perception from five months

Babies develop conscious perception from five months

19 April 2013, 12:00 PM

Europe | Infants develop the ability to consciously process their environment as early as five months of age, according to a study published today in the journal Science. Read more

Comment: COAG - Gillard's last throw of the dice

Comment: COAG - Gillard's last throw of the dice

19 April 2013, 11:25 AM

Australia | Today’s COAG meeting over the so called Gonski 'reforms' to school funding, is the PM's last desperate throw of the dice to show she can deliver a big policy promise, writes Scott Prasser.
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Indigenous cultural policy: Creative Australia or creative accounting?

Indigenous cultural policy: Creative Australia or creative accounting?

19 April 2013, 11:00 AM

Australia | Comment: I was pleasantly surprised by the government’s announcement last month of A$54 million in funding for Indigenous languages as part of the national cultural policy – Creative Australia. But the spin was laid on thick. 
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They're long-term, temporary and invisible: our other migrant workers

19 April 2013, 6:00 AM

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Australians drink to get drunk but want alcohol reforms

Australians drink to get drunk but want alcohol reforms

18 April 2013, 17:05 PM

Australia | Despite new data showing Australians are increasingly drinking alcohol to get drunk, just one in five believe they drink too much. Fron Jackson-Webb, from The Conversation looks at the findings. Read more

Comment: to sign or not to sign? States' Gonski D-Day approaches

Comment: to sign or not to sign? States' Gonski D-Day approaches

18 April 2013, 7:00 AM

Australia | Richard Teese from the University of Melbourne looks at how Gillard will need the states and territories to implement the Gonski reforms. Read more

Comment: a restrained US media and online response to Boston

Comment: a restrained US media and online response to Boston

17 April 2013, 12:18 PM

Australia | Although it is easy to draw the similarities between yesterday's Boston attacks and September 11, Nicole Hemmer writes the media has learned its lesson about speculation.
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Anti-smoking campaigns failing Indigenous youth

Anti-smoking campaigns failing Indigenous youth

17 April 2013, 7:32 AM

Australia | Almost half of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians aged 14 years and older smoke cigarettes, compared with one-fifth of non-Indigenous Australians. Read more

Comment: burying Thatcher and why celebrating death is still wrong

Comment: burying Thatcher and why celebrating death is still wrong

17 April 2013, 1:03 AM

Australia | Patrick Stokes looks at all sides of celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death, but decides that in the end: 'Every death diminishes us. Rejoicing in death only diminishes us further.' Read more

Comment: What now for Browse Basin gas?

Comment: What now for Browse Basin gas?

16 April 2013, 19:00 PM

Australia | Woodside's announcement that it would no longer be developing a gas processing plant at James Price Point in Western Australia is by no means the death knell for gas development in the Browse Basin, writes Susan Gourvenec from the University of Western Australia. Read more

Too close to home: the Boston Marathon bombing

Too close to home: the Boston Marathon bombing

16 April 2013, 19:00 PM

North America | The terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon calls up a number of questions that have no easy answers, writes David Malet from the University of Melbourne. Read more

Comment: Why Labor has failed to sell Gonski

Comment: Why Labor has failed to sell Gonski

16 April 2013, 13:03 PM

Australia | Many in the media have blamed Labor's problems on inept leadership, but even the most brilliant leader will fail when voters are disillusioned with the policy record of a government, writes Geoffrey Robinson.
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