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Editor's note
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Teaching Indigenous students in both English and their first language could help boost literacy levels and overall academic achievement, research shows. The importance of bilingual education was recognised more than 50 years ago, writes Samantha Disbray, but schools desperately need qualified Aboriginal teachers to make this a reality.
And on a different note, around the world today, fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses will celebrate Bloomsday. This experimental novel can be bewildering to read, writes Stephen McLaren, but for those who persist, it is a literary feast.
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Claire Shaw
Education Editor
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Top story
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Indigenous children can benefit greatly from learning in a language they understand.
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Samantha Disbray, Charles Darwin University
Research shows many concepts are best learned in the language that the learner understands.
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Arts + Culture
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SF McLaren, Western Sydney University
Around the world today, fans of James Joyce's Ulysses will celebrate Bloomsday. This experimental novel can be bewildering to read, but for those who persist, it is a 'feast' of a book.
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Frances Devlin-Glass, Deakin University
Smell is the Cinderella of the senses in Anglophone literature, but James Joyce wrote an olfactory revolution. His treatment of the science of smell was astonishingly prescient.
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Cities
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Gareth Wilson, University of Melbourne
When wealth accumulation becomes the driver of urban regeneration, residents who already have little or no say in the future of our cities are further marginalised by gentrification.
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Business + Economy
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Bill Birnbauer, Monash University
Tax deductibility for donations to non-profit journalism centres in the United States have invigorated quality journalism. This same model could help Australian journalism.
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Peter Wells, University of Technology Sydney
For Ten to be a viable business it needs to make hard decisions to cut costs and reach more viewers.
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Eileen Webb, Curtin University
The Law Reform Commission has recommended that banks take 'reasonable steps' to protect vulnerable Australians.
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Science + Technology
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Malcolm Walter, UNSW
We could learn a lot from any mission to send people to Mars, such as whether there's life elsewhere in the universe or even the technology for new household appliances.
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John Blaxland, Australian National University
James Bond and Jason Bourne have little to tell us about modern spycraft.
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Health + Medicine
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Helen Dickinson, UNSW
The Productivity Commission has described the roll-out to the full scheme as “highly ambitious” and expresses concern it risks not being implemented as intended.
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Lily Nothling, The Conversation
Teenagers, unmarried women and migrants are among those missing out on antenatal care in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, according to new Australian research.
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Joseph Ibrahim, Monash University; Lyndal Bugeja, Monash University
A report that recommends 43 ways to prevent elder abuse acknowledges we don't even know how often it occurs in Australia.
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Environment + Energy
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Laura B. Alvarez, Nottingham Trent University
There are three key principles: prevent risk, evacuate users and minimise damage – in that order.
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Silvia Frisia, University of Newcastle
Melting ice from Antartica could feed vast plankton blooms, trapping carbon in the ocean. To understand this complex mechanism, researchers looked at volcanoes deep under glaciers.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
It's clear that reaching an outcome on energy policy which brings the certainty business needs to invest will be a hard slog for Malcolm Turnbull.
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Politics + Society
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Uri Gal, University of Sydney
Australia’s data retention law is one of the most comprehensive and intrusive data collection schemes in the Western world, and should be challenged.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
To implement an alternative that still effectively puts a price on emissions might – apart from its policy advantages – be seen by Malcolm Turnbull as righting the old wrong done to him by his party.
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Lorraine Finlay, Murdoch University; Joshua Forrester, Murdoch University
It is obviously important to protect the institutional integrity and independence of the judiciary – but the judiciary and judicial decisions should not be immune from criticism.
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Emily Bell, Columbia University
There are four key things Donald Trump’s election tells us about the state of journalism today.
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