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State and federal education ministers are meeting in Canberra today, in their first face-to-face conference for more than a year. Federal minister Jason Clare and his colleagues have plenty to talk about – not only does COVID continue to wreak havoc in schools, but a national teacher shortage is starting to bite.
Ministers will be talking to teachers, principals and experts as part of their meeting and many solutions are being suggested – from pay increases to teaching “apprenticeships” and fast-tracking new teachers into classrooms.
But as University of Melbourne teacher education experts Larissa McLean Davies and Jim Watterston write, this increasingly heated debate is missing some big-picture thinking.
“While well-intended, the ideas on offer address the symptoms, rather than the complexity of the cause. We need a coherent and comprehensive plan to address the real problem: teaching is not being treated like a profession.”
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Judith Ireland
Education Editor
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Larissa McLean Davies, The University of Melbourne; Jim Watterston, The University of Melbourne
Today, state and federal education ministers will meet in Canberra to discuss the teacher shortage. It will be their first in-person meeting for more than a year.
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Rod Sims, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
News organisations employing employing 15-20% of Australian journalists still don’t get paid by Facebook.
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Cleo Hansen-Lohrey, University of Tasmania; Tamara Wood, University of Tasmania
The re-introduction of an immigration detention bill could bring Australia into compliance with international human rights law.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
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Michael Toole, Burnet Institute
As monkeypox vaccination programs roll out and health authorities work to reduce the spread of the virus, progress is lagging on renaming it.
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Andrew King, The University of Melbourne; Celia McMichael, The University of Melbourne; Harry McClelland, The University of Melbourne; Jacqueline Peel, The University of Melbourne; Kale Sniderman, The University of Melbourne; Kathryn Bowen, The University of Melbourne; Tilo Ziehn, CSIRO; Zebedee Nicholls, The University of Melbourne
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Myles Menz, James Cook University; Martin Wikelski, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
We attached tiny transmitters to a number of individual moths and tracked a part of their migration using a Cessna aircraft.
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Erin Harrington, University of Canterbury
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Ronnie Scott, RMIT University
Ken Cameron’s film of Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip is dark, yearning, weird – and incredibly sexy – writes Ronnie Scott.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle O'Shea, Western Sydney University; Hazel Maxwell, University of Tasmania; Robyn Newitt, Western Sydney University; Sonya Pearce, University of Technology Sydney
This year’s Commonwealth games boasted a record number of First Nations athletes, a lot of them women. While positive, the history of the Games and potential for burn-out for athletes is very real.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan speaks with Nick Bisley, Professor at La Trobe University about escalating tensions with China over Taiwan, and the Chinese Ambassador's recent address to the National Press Club.
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Adrian Beaumont, The Conversation
The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the landmark Roe v Wade ruling on abortion is having big political ramifications - and favouring the Democrats.
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Health + Medicine
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Marnie Blewitt, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute; Natalia Benetti, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Our study in mice shows epigenetic changes in the mother can be passed to her offspring to influence a critical time in how the spine develops.
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Allen Cheng, Monash University
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Hannah Dahlen, Western Sydney University
While sepsis is considered to be a preventable cause of maternal death, it continues to be a major cause of women dying during or after childbirth, even in Australia.
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Science + Technology
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Steven W. Salisbury, The University of Queensland; Andréas Jannel, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin; Olga Panagiotopoulou, Monash University
The largest animals to ever walk the earth, giant sauropods dominated world ecosystems for 100 million years. New research indicates soft ‘heel pads’ helped them reach their stature.
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Environment + Energy
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Robyn Alders, Australian National University
Indonesia’s foot-and-mouth outbreak shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s been decades in the making – just the latest consequence of biosecurity shortcomings in the region.
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Anita Wreford, Lincoln University, New Zealand
New Zealand’s first adaptation plan gives local councils clearer guidelines, but it doesn’t tackle crucial questions about who should pay and how to future-proof major investments.
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Dallas Rogers, University of Sydney; Cameron Logan, University of Sydney; Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong; Crystal Legacy, The University of Melbourne
A bid to amend plans for the final stage of the Barangaroo project would once again favour developers’ interests over the public interest. It shows how badly the planning process has been undermined.
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Education
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Joanne Orlando, Western Sydney University
Classrooms should not be a free-for-all TikTok fest. But we need to support children to learn how to concentrate and function in a digitally-saturated world.
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Arts + Culture
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Huw Griffiths, University of Sydney
Gaslight, fog, and mysterious doorways abound in STC’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a play which is a complex portrait of morals being realigned in a new world of discovery.
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Business + Economy
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Apisalome Movono, Massey University
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