The high salary earners of the public sector are streets ahead of the best paid politicians, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Emily Finlay.
Australian National University
Silent outrage as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains locked up
While there were no large-scale protests, there was a palpable sense of anger at the decision to continue Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest, freelance journalist Kyaw Kyaw writes from Burma.
Racial discrimination in Oz: a tale of three experiments
An ANU study used three experiments — The Jobseeker study (picked up by nightly news programs), The Return to Sender Experiment and the Implicit Association Test — to test Australians’ racial biases. Result = depressing.
Whatever happened to the Education Revolution?
The bottom line is that funding per student in higher education remains lower than before the mid-1990s, and considerably lower than in most OECD countries, writes Erica Cervini.
Remaking Australia, part four: Miriam Lyons
In a special post-election series, Crikey asked leading Australian thinkers to sketch a blueprint for a future Australia. Today, Miriam Lyons, Director of the Centre for Policy Development, takes a look at remaking Australian culture, for want of a smaller topic.
