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Tom Greenwell
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Australia’s “next great social policy reform”
The Morrison Government ignores the case for expanding access to preschool education at its peril, writes Tom Greenwell.
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Are we really running schools like factories?
Gonski called time on Australia’s “industrial” model of “mass education.” But does the diagnosis — and the prescription — reflect classroom reality?
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You are no longer the product
Dutch news site, De Correspondent, represents a radical challenge to traditional journalistic practice. Now, it’s about to launch in the United States.
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Journalism is in peril. Can government help?
State support for the press is commonplace in Europe, and it doesn’t appear to inhibit journalists. But does it bring real benefits?
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“We wouldn’t want to be where you guys are, that’s for sure”
The years of 1972 to 1975 are seen as a turning point that still defines the education landscape. Gough Whitlam’s Australia? Yes, but also Norman Kirk’s New Zealand. That’s where the likeness ends, though, for the new educational epoch Kirk ushered in was quite different from the era created by Whitlam and his education adviser...