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EDUCATION

The great divide: ATAR results offer a snapshot of inequality in Australian education
- Erica Cervini
- 13 December 2023
3 Comments
As Australian students receive their year-end academic results, a stark educational divide comes into focus, with high-fee-paying private and selective government schools leading the ranks. This trend highlights significant socio-economic disparities across the country, raising urgent questions about the accessibility and true cost of academic excellence in a nation grappling with inequality.
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AUSTRALIA

Reconsidering the role of ATAR in Australian Schools
- Sarah Dunn
- 12 December 2022
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The Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) is a number between 0 and 99.95, which indicates a student’s position in relation to their peers. Statistics from recent years provide troubling insight into the usefulness of the ATAR system, only further exacerbated by the growing number of dissatisfied students.
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AUSTRALIA

Gamification nation
- Cherie Gilmour
- 03 November 2022
1 Comment
Gamification affects almost all our online activities, from communicating to shopping, with gaming elements omnipresent in the form of points, avatars, badges, leader boards, and real-life rewards. Stripping activities of their intrinsic value, virtually any online activity could be transformed into a challenge to win. Yet users make the mistake of focusing on the game rewards without seeing how the game itself is subtly changing behaviour.
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INTERNATIONAL

Camouflaged protests: The Qatar World Cup
- Binoy Kampmark
- 25 October 2022
2 Comments
With the likes of David Beckham and Tim Cahill openly supporting the FIFA Men's World Cup in Qatar next month, what of those troubled sporting figures wishing to take an ethical, moral stand against a tournament’s organisers? To that end, a new, disingenuous form of protest has emerged, one of virtuous self-promotion that eschews substantive effect.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

To live until he dies: The gift of Salman Rushdie
- Michael McGirr
- 25 August 2022
4 Comments
Salman Rushdie is a writer with a most defiant sense of humour. If you want to get to know him, I wouldn’t start with The Satanic Verses (1988), the book that has brought him so much grief. Thirty three years after Ayatollah Khomeni imposed a fatwa on the author, it would seem to have led, on August 12, to a young man called Hadi Matar making an attempt on Rushdie’s life at a public event in New York.
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RELIGION

Mother Merle shows me how to die
- Barry Gittins
- 05 June 2019
7 Comments
At 4am on a cold morning, my brother phoned from the hospital. My final conversation with my mother, while harrowing, was not unexpected. My attempts to thank her for who she was and what she had given to me did not suffice. Mother Merle was in a hurry to leave this life, and the cancer that had drained her strength. She was over it.
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EDUCATION

How our universities are failing new teachers
- Tim Hutton
- 12 October 2018
8 Comments
Data published by the ABC has revealed the shockingly low threshold for entry into tertiary teaching programs. On one hand, there are some legitimate concerns here. But the problem isn't with who gets accepted to university; it's with what happens to them while they are there.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Subversive pilgrimage in the shoes of St Anthony
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 November 2017
1 Comment
Fernando is an avatar for the 13th century saint. He is seen encamped on the bank of a river in the Portuguese wilderness, clad in a brown hoodie that emulates the robes of the Franciscan order of which Anthony was a member. The act of bird-watching evokes St Francis of Assisi, the order's founder (and the present Pope's namesake). But things get rather more surreal from there.
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MEDIA

Afghanistan's media explosion
- Jan Forrester
- 20 March 2009
Tolo TV is the most popular network in Afghanistan. A young population enjoys its Indian soap operas, racy by conservative Afghan mores. The Government tried to censor Tolo and another leading network. The latter bowed to pressure. Tolo refused.
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ENVIRONMENT

Flying with disability in Second Life
- Margaret Cassidy
- 09 January 2008
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The online virtual world Second Life has been subject to bad press focussing on examples of narcissistic and unprincipled behaviour. But paralympian Niels Schuddeboom has found an opportunity to forget his disability and experience life as a walking avatar. From 2 May 2007.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Julian Madsen
- Julian Madsen
- 17 May 2007
Julian Madsen is a writer and researcher with al-Jazeera on Middle Eastern affairs. Having extensive knowledge of Arab culture and the political, social and economic landscape, Julian has lived in Egypt, Syria and Qatar.
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ENVIRONMENT

Flying with disability in Second Life
- Margaret Cassidy
- 15 May 2007
6 Comments
The online virtual world Second Life has been subject to bad press focussing on examples of narcissistic and unprincipled behaviour. But paralympian Niels Schuddeboom has found an opportunity to forget his disability and experience life as a walking avatar.
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Keywords: Atar