
Held to account
Society
Why is the cost of banking in remote communities so high?
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Held to account
Society
Why is the cost of banking in remote communities so high?
Call for backup
Politics
How authorities lost control of juvenile detention
Screen time, all the time
Society
Do smart devices in classrooms help kids learn?
Don Dale is the tip of the iceberg
blog
Mistreatment of vulnerable people in detention is commonplace throughout Australia
An impoverished estate
blog
The Australian media prioritised personality over policy during this election campaign
Through the windows
Culture
‘Play School’ celebrates 50 years of preschool education and entertainment
Unredeemed goods
blog
Pawno does little more than sell nostalgia for a mythic Australian monoculture
Why was this government policy?
the_monthly_today
George Brandis sensibly reversed his planned cuts to legal services yesterday, but he didn’t explain why it was Coalition policy for 18 months
Up in the air
the_monthly_today
The Abbott government and the renewable energy industry are 1,500 gigawatt hours away from an agreement on the RET...but Ian Macfarlane won't budge.
Trying it on
the_monthly_today
Tony Abbott’s dubious record on travel entitlements, and political parties’ poor record on declaring donations, suggests the need for greater transparency and accountability
The end of privacy?
the_monthly_today
This week, and possibly tonight, the Senate will pass legislation that authorises constant surveillance by the state of citizens’ electronic communications
Island of terror
the_monthly_today
The Moss review ignores the real cause of the abuse on Nauru, because the government won’t go there
Malcolm Fraser, 1930-2015
the_monthly_today
Malcolm Fraser passed away this morning after a brief illness. He was 84. The two periods of his political life – the first leading up to and including his prime ministership, the second covering the three decades since he was finally defeated by Bob …