This Month
- Opinion
- Education
Time running out to fix school funding sticking point
Here we are, 12 years later, with at least one school generation having finished their education, and there’s still no needs-based Gonski funding for disadvantaged students.
- Doug Taylor
CSL wins global avian flu vaccine contracts
Australian pharmaceutical giant CSL is to supply up to 45 million shots of its avian flu vaccine to Europe and the US as health authorities prepare for possible human infection from the dangerous H5 strain.
- Tom Burton
- Opinion
- Fertility
Me, my niece and a generational shift in thinking about babies
The “happy accidents” that led to so many families having three or more children are a lot less likely to happen now.
- Emma Connors
Rich countries are paying women to procreate. It isn’t working
Despite subsidising each new child by $2 million, France has the lowest birth rate in modern history. Other countries have similar problems.
- The Economist
Mental health crisis for young women started in 2012, study finds
More research has found a strong link between the emergence of social media and depression, anxiety and self-harm.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Immigration
Slashing foreign student numbers would be economic self-harm
Before the government puts the squeeze on Australia’s $48 billion university export industry, it should consider how much GDP it is prepared to sacrifice.
- Bran Black
June
Why people with cancer don’t get the full benefit of clinical trials
Australian researchers say regulators should mandate the requirement to share data.
- Jill Margo
- Opinion
- Culture wars
The educated elite is destroying America
Progressive culture has spread from the universities to national life, triggering a backlash that benefits political populists such as Donald Trump.
- David Brooks
- Opinion
- Hospitals
The bottom line is private hospitals are evolving, not collapsing
The government’s “financial health check” review should kick-start a conversation about innovation and the fate of some old, inefficient facilities.
- Matthew Koce
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Australia’s anticompetitive pharmacy regime
The competition watchdog should also be analysing how Australia’s anticompetitive pharmacy policy settings – much like labour monopolies on construction sites and on the wharfs – are substantially lessening competition.
- The AFR View
NSW unis in a sea of red, but worse to come
NSW universities struggled for a second year in a row, but their annus horribilis is still on the horizon.
- Julie Hare
The trouble with psychedelics
The gold-standard methodology for testing a drug’s efficacy, the double-blind trial, does not work for substances that affect the mind.
- Jonathan Lambert
- Exclusive
- International students
2000 jobs lost in foreign education sector the ‘tip of the iceberg’
The Albanese government’s migration cuts have triggered staff cutbacks at colleges and recruitment firms, and at least one university has imposed a hiring freeze.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How short sellers won big on story of housing market pain
IDP Education plunged after the full extent of immigration restrictions in Australia, Canada and Britain became clear. It hopes the pain will be short-lived, but that will depend on house prices.
- Updated
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Medicare
Pharmacists lost 60-day battle, but won war with Chemist Warehouse
The most powerful lobby group in the nation has convinced Labor to stop its competitor from giving customers a $1 discount on medicines.
- Terry Barnes
- Opinion
- Universities in crisis
Let’s wait before we make rash decisions on foreign students
Universities are being asked to fix a housing problem they did not create, and the government’s haste will massively disrupt thousands of students’ lives.
- Mark Scott
Investment banker David Williams still going rogue
“We were not aware he would say such things,” the Bionic Institute’s Robert Klupacs wrote in his apology.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
May
Next Capital snaps up majority stake in education biz Scentia
The mid-market private equity firm has inked a deal to acquire a majority stake in the career training group which controls the Australian Institute of Management.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
The disease detectives trying to keep the world safe from bird flu
Frontline work in low-income countries is increasingly vital to a global system to detect viruses that jump between animals and humans, the way COVID-19 did.
- Stephanie Nolen
Harsh migration cuts will stifle new mega-uni’s ambitions
Adelaide University got its official tick of approval on Tuesday, but its plan to recruit 13,000 new students over eight years could suffer from migration cuts.
- Julie Hare
