Funding
Patients' lives put at risk by Medicare funding blow
Lucy Beaumont Around this time last year I had my second positron emission tomography, or PET, scan.
Funding cut limits students' ability to choose their own path
Fatima Measham Students who are struggling academically are not going to fare any better, given recent moves by the Baillieu government.
Put the fun back into funding
Toni Jordan According an article in Britain's Guardian newspaper, one London hospital ''generated substantial income'' from renting out one of its closed but fully equipped wards to a film company, for use as a...
School funding debate is rich-bashing
Amanda Vanstone Public funding for private schools makes sense. Suggesting otherwise is claptrap.
We’re funding the Billionaire Liberation Front
Leslie Cannold As the May federal budget approaches, I'm frightened. My own household budget, squeezed from years of novel-writing wages of less than 1¢ an hour, is getting slugged with higher electricity and...
Funding keeps private schools open for choice
Paul Sheahan It's right to subsidise parents for reducing public education costs.
Getting university funding right crucial
Ethan Burger and Mark Loves Australia could learn a bit from Britain, write Ethan Burger and Mark Loves.
We have to put an end to this funding farce
TREVOR COBBOLD The Gonski committee must ensure privilege is not allowed to trump disadvantage in education yet again, writes Trevor Cobbold.
Should we be funding opera?
Marcus Westbury Lyndon Terracini has been outspoken and surprisingly frank about the limitations of Australia's major performing arts companies in recent weeks.
Programs for troubled youth forgotten in school funding
Denise Ryan It is clear from the front pages of newspapers most days that there is a problem with groups of disengaged young people coming into the city on weekends to get drunk and cause trouble.
Women the biggest losers if sports funding is cut
Kimberley Crow Women will be the biggest losers if sports funding is cut.
Fighting an outbreak of complacency
Tony Adams Australia is ill-prepared for a fast-moving public health emergency.
Abortion politics for export
Chloe Angyal Australians' love of things American must not extend to a growing assault in the US on women's reproductive rights.
Are Australians racist?
Angry tweets by two South African models - one white, one black - were reminders of that country's sad history of racial discord.
It's up to us to help young Africans fit in
Denise Ryan Fear is stopping many from welcoming our city's newest migrants.
The PC crowd that's keeping the world of art mediocre
Elizabeth Farrelly The Australia Council is threatened, say some, with change beyond recognition. The question is, will it make any difference? Halfway up the godless bit of Regent Street between Central Station and...
Where lies the real enemy in Afghanistan?
Patrick Porter For 10 years, Australia has been wading deeper into an uncertain mire in Afghanistan.
Just as Melbourne starts buzzing the NGV is forced to slam its doors shut
Gerard Vaughan The Sturt Street cultural hub and extended hours for the NGV both offer big opportunities.
The unkindest cut
Farrah Tomazin The Coalition may be cutting the ground out from under itself, writes Farrah Tomazin.
No place for justice on a conveyor belt
Marilyn Warren Government bean counters need to realise courts need independence, not widget-making targets.
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