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The ANU was set up to be a ‘national asset’. Here are 3 ways it can return to its original mission

The Australian National University is one of the most prestigious universities in Australia and is regularly ranked among the world’s best.

The Conversation

Low expectations and thwarted desires: Geoff Dyer’s memoir of a working-class childhood

As a child, the writer Geoff Dyer made regular Friday visits to the house where his father was raised and where his father’s sister, Auntie Joan, still lived. While his parents talked with Joan, Geoff slipped upstairs. The landing’s ageing wallpaper was “brown or gloomy yellow”. Here stood a glass…

The Conversation

View from The Hill: 5 things to look for in the budget – and why we really need another budget soon

Jim Chalmers likes to boast, or marvel, that he is the first treasurer since Ben Chifley to deliver four budgets in a term.

The Conversation

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How did Australia’s university system get so broken? Pretty much the same way as everything else

We live amid the wreckage of formerly treasured institutions and services, despoiled by decades of marketisation and neglect

The Guardian - AU

Alan Kohler: Time to revisit the Allan Fels system of price control – naming and shaming

It’s time to revisit the Fels system of price control.That is – put some resources into price surveillance, and name and shame the gougers.

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: Why the RBA thinks if there must be a recession, there will be a recession

The implication of what Philip Lowe said is that unless productivity improves fast, there will have to be a recession.

The New Daily

Rupert Murdoch: how a 22-year-old 'zealous Laborite' turned into a tabloid tsar

In September 1953, Rupert Murdoch arrived in sleepy Adelaide to take up his inheritance of News Limited. He was only 22 and had little experience of working at a newspaper, let alone running one, but his family had inherited a majority stake in the company following the death of Rupert’s…

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Hell hath no fury like a former PM – but it wasn't always so

In a television interview with Phillip Adams in 1999, Paul Keating remarked that he retained much influence on the international stage.

The Conversation

'Just dumbfounded': Vandals destroy Chifley's pipe - yet again

Call for cameras to watch over Canberra's sculptures.

The Canberra Times

The Chifley and Curtin statue was vandalised. What's significant about this?

A statue of former prime minister Ben Chifley who "couldn't be seen without his pipe" has had it stolen. What's significant about this?

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