Most Australians support a federal anti-corruption commission: research Most Australians want the government to create a federal anti-corruption commission, make its national agencies more independent and set four-year
Has Gonski stepped outside the square? The first thing I did when I became a secondary school principal many years ago was to put the school’s
Most Indigenous students consigned to schools with least capacity to help We are now into the tenth anniversary of the strategy to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Last
Progress made on Indigenous retention rates masks growing racial divide at schools Indigenous students are disproportionately represented in Australia’s most disadvantaged schools and the divide between rich and poor is developing an
Selective school decisions coming back to haunt us Almost alone in Australia, New South Wales has been expanding its number of selective schools, accompanied each time by arguments
Don’t mention the republic! Well, that didn’t take long. When provocateur-in-chief Paul Keating goaded Malcolm Turnbull into putting the republic issue back on the
As politicians we must lift our game and respond to the frustrations of Australians 2017 has been a spectacularly bad year for Australian democracy. People are saying that our politics is broken – and
Australians want more democracy, research shows Australians have an appetite for democratic renewal and substantial policy reform, argues a paper released by the Centre for Policy
Australians’ faith in system of government waning, survey finds A new survey on Australian attitudes to democracy suggests our faith in Australia’s system of government is waning, in the
