Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off

Sep 02, 2018 22:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

If you were going to reduce a 150-page Productivity Commission examination of trends in Australian inequality to a few words, it would be nice if they werent ALP inequality claims sunk, or Progressive article of faith...

Despite predictions of their demise, college textbooks aren't going away

Aug 28, 2018 15:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

The textbook has been declared dead many times over. Progressive educator John Dewey decried the text-book fetish back in the 1890s. Former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wished out loud for textbooks to become...

Adela Pankhurst: the forgotten sister who doesn't fit neatly into suffragette history

Aug 28, 2018 15:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

In the centenary year of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, womens struggle to obtain the right to vote in the UK has been strongly identified with its leading protagonists, the Pankhurst family. The rifts between...

Australian archaeologists dropped the term 'Stone Age' decades ago, and so should you

Aug 28, 2018 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Stone Age is a term often used to refer to early periods in human cultural evolution, when deliberately manufactured sharp stone flakes were the main cutting tool. But its also used to describe cultures that are seen as...

Why it's so hard to hold priests accountable for sex abuse

Aug 28, 2018 13:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

A grand jury report recently found shocking levels of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. It uncovered, in six dioceses, the sexual abuse of over 1,000 children and named 301 perpetrator priests. It also found that...

South Africa's university students face a crisis: nearly a third go hungry

Aug 28, 2018 13:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

There is a common perception that students represent the elite, and so cannot possibly suffer from hunger. But this is a myth. In fact, the available evidence suggests that students are more likely to be food insecure ...

1968 protests at Columbia University called attention to 'Gym Crow' and got worldwide attention

Aug 28, 2018 12:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

If they build the first story, blow it up. If they sneak back at night and build three stories, burn it down. And if they get nine stories built, its yours. Take it over, and maybe well let them in on the weekends. This...