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Editor's note
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Pauline Hanson and outrage often seem to be the best of friends, and this week has been no exception. The One Nation senator has drawn ire from a number of quarters by suggesting children with disabilities should be schooled in separate classrooms because they take up too much of their teacher’s time.
But as Linda J Graham and Kate de Bruin point out, the research actually shows students with a disability either have no impact on non-disabled students’ learning, or are in fact beneficial to them.
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Pauline Hanson has made claims about the negative impacts of having children with autism in mainstream classrooms.
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Linda J. Graham, Queensland University of Technology; Kate de Bruin, Monash University
Evidence shows that the senator's comments on the burden of children with disability are misleading.
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Education
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Kate Torii, Victoria University; Sarah Pilcher, Victoria University; Stacey Fox, Victoria University
The latest OECD report on early learning education and care gives Australia a mixed report card.
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Politics + Society
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Tomas Fitzgerald, University of Notre Dame Australia; Marilyn Bromberg, University of Western Australia
Criminalising websites that celebrate extreme, unhealthy thinness is deeply problematic.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
As it attempts to limit vulnerabilities and confront pressing issues, the government is sending some confusing signals to the electorate.
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Simon Levett, Western Sydney University
The special protection offered via international law is not enough to keep journalists reporting on conflict zones and assuage concerns about free speech.
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Jessie Blackbourn, University of Oxford
Proposed new laws will restrict parole and bail to those merely associated in some way with terrorism, even when they have not be arrested for – or convicted of – a specific terrorism offence.
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Business + Economy
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Mara Olekalns, Melbourne Business School
Building negotiating power is crucial for anyone looking to ask for a pay rise. But for those who can't, perhaps it's the employers' responsibility to ensure fair compensation.
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Richard Holden, UNSW
For a whole lot of workers in Australia, cutting a better pay deal is very hard.
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Siah Hwee Ang, Victoria University of Wellington
While New Zealand leads the world in how easy it is to register a business, government regulation makes it expensive and time consuming to trade internationally.
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Science + Technology
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Richard Matthews, University of Adelaide
Photos are full of information, from your location to phone model, and digital forensics can help extract it.
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Peter Hannay, Edith Cowan University
It's not safe out there for an app.
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Cities
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Jago Dodson, RMIT University; Sarah Sinclair, RMIT University; Tony Dalton, RMIT University
New research finds a state of confusion when it comes to Australian government policymaking on housing, despite its huge economic and social significance.
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Arts + Culture
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Louise Pryke, Macquarie University
Love, it is said, is a battlefield, and it was no more so than for the first goddess of love and war, Ishtar. Her legend has influenced cultural archetypes from Aphrodite to Wonder Woman.
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Sandra D'urso, University of Melbourne
'Well behaved women seldom make history,' wrote historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Revolt. She said. Revolt again. at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre takes the idea to its apocalyptic extremes.
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Health + Medicine
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David Amor, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
A test of all your genes for disease risk is not yet the precision diagnostic and treatment tool we hope it will one day be.
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Sarah Whittle, University of Melbourne; Julian G. Simmons, University of Melbourne; Nick Allen, University of Oregon
New research has found growing up in a disadvantaged neighbourhood can have negative effects on children's brain development.
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Environment + Energy
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Grainne Cleary, Deakin University
We all know how vital it is for our native bird species to thrive. But what if the only birds that visit your garden are introduced "pest" species? Many people feel these birds deserve some love too.
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Stephen D Wratten, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Latest results from garden bird surveys in New Zealand show that at least six non-native species have declined over the past decade.
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David Blowers, Grattan Institute
Proposals for the government to commission more "baseload" electricity generation will raise private sector concerns over Canberra's growing willingness to intervene in a previously free market.
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