Editor's note
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After years of political in-fighting, education has finally been put on the government’s agenda – and what a week it has been.
If passed through the Senate, students will have to pay up to $3,600 more for a four-year degree; they will have to pay back their student loan earlier and quicker; and universities will face cuts.
As for schools, most will see their funding increased. However, 24 of the wealthiest schools will face cuts, and around 350 slightly over-funded schools with have their funding slowed or frozen. David Gonski himself will conduct yet another review on how to best spend this additional money.
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Claire Shaw
Education Editor
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Education
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Students will have to stay repaying their loan when they earn $42,000.
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Ittima Cherastidtham, Grattan Institute
Students will now have to pay back more of their loan, and repay quicker.
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Catholic schools and over-funded schools will lose out the most.
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Peter Goss, Grattan Institute
For the first time, Education Minister Simon Birmingham has proposed a credible plan to deliver needs-based funding.
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Business + Economy
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Older Australians are not deterred by financial barriers as much as emotional ones, when it comes to downsizing.
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Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute; John Daley, Grattan Institute
When people do downsize, financial incentives are generally not the big things on their minds. And so most of the budget’s financial incentives will go to those who were going to downsize anyway.
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Data shows coal is on the way out.
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David Peetz, Griffith University; Georgina Murray, Griffith University
As the cost of renewable energy falls, funding a new mine is a risky investment.
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Politics + Society
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David Buchanan and Fr Paul Kelly have spearheaded pushes to abolish the gay panic defence.
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Andrew Dodd, Swinburne University of Technology
In this episode of Change Agents we look at the abolition of the gay panic defence across Australia.
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Recently, police services have begun to set in place strategies designed to improve the response to mental health problems among their members.
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Karl Roberts, Western Sydney University
It is often assumed that police are at higher risk of suicide than other members of the community because of the stress involved in their jobs. But the picture is more complicated than that.
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Health + Medicine
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Women can experience significant distress in the lead-up to their periods.
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Jane Ussher, Western Sydney University
A new study found a woman's partner can help decrease PMS symptoms, rather than exacerbating them.
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General anaesthesia has come a long way since its first public demonstration in the 19th century, depicted here.
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David Liley, Swinburne University of Technology
Terrifying accounts of surgery 200 years ago remind us how far general anaesthesia has come. Yet we still know little about how anaesthetics alter consciousness.
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Science + Technology
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Big crowds at an Intel Extreme Masters event held in Poland in 2013.
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Zixiu Guo, UNSW; Michael Cahalane, UNSW
Australia's biggest prize pot for computer gaming is up for grabs this weekend which shows our growing interest in the multi-million dollar eSports industry.
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Facebook still needs humans after all.
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Jennifer Beckett, University of Melbourne
Facebook wants to stop violent videos appearing in its feeds, but we must ensure human moderators don't suffer.
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Environment + Energy
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James Gleeson’s Delenda est Carthago offers a striking visualisation of a collapsing civilisation.
Joelle Gergis, University of Melbourne; Penny Whetton, University of Melbourne
A new art festival featuring climate-related works offers a new way to see an issue that is often framed in purely scientific terms.
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A feral dog chasing a wild boar, Banni grasslands, India.
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Tim Doherty, Deakin University; Aaron J. Wirsing, University of Washington; Chris Dickman, University of Sydney; Dale Nimmo, Charles Sturt University; Euan Ritchie, Deakin University; Thomas Newsome, Deakin University
Cats have a bad reputation as wildlife killers (deservedly so). But dogs aren't off the hook: new research shows domestic dogs have contributed to the extinction of at least 11 species.
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Cities
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Low-cost housing development on the city outskirts can expose owners to higher costs in the long run.
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Mark Gibbs, Queensland University of Technology
People are taking on larger future risks and costs just so they can buy a house. Increases in new home owners are seen as a positive development, but what if they can't afford the ongoing costs?
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Must we become passive observers to the destruction of one of Melbourne’s most culturally diverse and socially rich suburbs?
Sidh Sintusingha, University of Melbourne
Must the aggressive, homogeneous global pattern of development take its course in Melbourne's long-standing multicultural suburb of Footscray?
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Arts + Culture
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An equestrian statue of a Julio-Claudian prince, originally identified as Caligula.
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Shushma Malik, The University of Queensland; Caillan Davenport, The University of Queensland
The emperor Caligula lavished attention on his favourite horse Incitatus, holding parties for friends in the steed's grand stables. But did he make his horse a consul?
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Part of Mandy Martin’s painting Cool Burn (2016): in her painting workshops at Djinkarr, Indigenous rangers brought the threats to their land to life on canvas.
Billy Griffiths, University of Sydney
Feral cats and pigs, mission grass and climate change - in western Arnhem Land, Indigenous rangers are battling many environmental threats. Through painting and performance, they are also telling 'healthy country' stories.
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