Yesterday
High hopes for meaningful education reform under Labor
The education sector felt shunned and disregarded under the Coalition, with insiders elated at the election result.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Federal election
Plibersek’s challenge is to rebuild ambition
Education has been overlooked and wracked by the culture wars. It’s time to move on.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
This Month
Monkeypox outbreak reaches Australia
Monkeypox has been detected in Australia, prompting warnings for gay men returning from overseas to be on the lookout for symptoms.
- Tom Burton
US records first monkeypox case as Europe infections spread
An outbreak of the disease, typically limited to Africa, has been expanding in Europe and has now reached Canada and North America.
- Madison Muller and Carey Goldberg
- Explainer
- Illness
What is monkeypox and where is it spreading?
Health authorities in the US and Europe have identified a number of monkeypox cases in recent days, mostly in young men. It’s a surprising outbreak of a disease that rarely appears outside Africa.
- Maria Cheng
Previous childcare splurge did not encourage parents to work more
Labor’s $5.4 billion childcare policy is called into question after evidence reveals few families took up cheaper childcare after the last big funding injection.
- Julie Hare
10pc of COVID-19 fatalities did not die from the disease
Ten per cent of the 5940 Australians officially registered as COVID-19 deaths died from other causes, an analysis of death certificates by the Bureau of Statistics finds.
- Tom Burton
How the high cost of childcare holds back women and the economy
The cost burden of childcare on working women is denying the economy of a ready-made boost.
- Julie Hare
Fix research funding system, implore universities
Australia has fallen well below the OECD average for investment in research and innovation. It spells trouble.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Federal election
There’s a better way than spending more on world-class healthcare
The age-old fight over cost shifting has a solution that isn’t rocket science: rework the funding agreement to pay for lower cost services and prevention.
- Tom Parry
Election promises make for lousy response to teacher shortages
Neither the Coalition nor the opposition have proposed a viable long-term solution to developing a well-trained, high-quality teacher workforce.
- David Hastie
COVID-19 cases rise ahead of more infectious winter wave
With temperatures dropping across the southern states, the national seven-day average has leaped from around 41,000 daily cases to nearly 48,000.
- Tom Burton
Labor’s teacher subsidy a ‘windfall’ but better than Coalition policy
A “catastrophic” university fee system won’t attract students into teaching or agriculture and is so unfair it needs to be remodelled, says education expert Andrew Norton.
- Julie Hare
Childcare costs another negative for Coalition in teal seats
Five of the 10 most expensive electorates for childcare are in seats that are being contested by so-called ‘teal’ independents.
- Julie Hare
Record virus deaths predicted in new omicron waves
Continuing omicron mutations are expected to create waves of sickness across the year, with Australia on track for nearly four times the fatalities of its worst flu season.
- Tom Burton
Hard hats rule as ‘female’ jobs miss priority list
Apprentices are flavour of the month in skills policy for both major parties. And it’s blokes who are the winners.
- Julie Hare
Research funding shortfall triggers 25pc cut to ANU physics department
Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt says it’s no longer sustainable to prop up basic research funding with revenue from international students.
- Yolanda Redrup
Change law to protect research integrity, pleads top science journal
Australia needs to change the legislation that allows ministers to block research grants, says the world’s most influential science journal.
- Julie Hare
Everyone a winner under Labor childcare overhaul: economists
Recent tweaks to Labor’s policy means there is not a single scenario under which families using childcare would be better off under the Coalition.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Childcare
Should the rich have their childcare subsidised?
Labor is promising more money for childcare, arguing it will pay for itself by increasing women’s participation in the workforce. But demands for free universal childcare are not getting political traction.
- Jennifer Hewett
