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Australian universities can’t rely on India if funds from Chinese students start to fall
Salvatore BabonesAugust 21, 2019The Conversation

Australia’s leading universities are now looking to India in search of new sources of international...

The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities
Salvatore BabonesAugust 20, 2019AP5

Australia’s universities are taking a multi-million dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a high-risk,...

Australian universities treating overseas students as cash cows
Salvatore BabonesAugust 20, 2019The Daily Telegraph

Our universities have become dangerously dependent on overseas students whom they treat as cash cows....

Australia’s choice in a US-China conflict
John Mearsheimer, Tom SwitzerAugust 19, 2019

As China converts its growing economic power into military power, it will seek to dominate...

Why we must waltz with America and China at the same time
Tom SwitzerAugust 17, 2019The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia, the great American columnist Charles Krauthammer once noted, is an “island of tranquillity in...

Security is key issue
Anastasia LinAugust 16, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Given the recent news regarding the arrests of Canadian, Australian, UK and US citizens in...

The Need For Speed: why fluency counts for maths learning
Toni Hatten-RobertsOctober 19, 2023AP57

1. Introduction Australia has a problem in maths achievement which is shown in stark relief...

Conduct Becoming. The importance of the Behaviour Curriculum
Tom BennettOctober 5, 2023AP56

Introduction Behaviour in many schools in the UK is often far below what it could...

Teaching Behaviour: How Classroom Conduct Can Unlock Better Learning
Tim McDonaldSeptember 28, 2023AP55

Introduction In Australia, and in education settings across the world, student behaviour and levels of...

Debunking Degrowth
Gene TunnySeptember 7, 2023AP54
In a country with a growing population, such as Australia, a policy of degrowth would...
2023 John Bonython Lecture: Questioning Orthodoxies
Jason RileyAugust 30, 2023OP197

Introduction I have the great honour and distinction of introducing the 2023 John Bonython Lecturer,...

Starting off on the wrong foot: How to improve Initial Teacher Education in Australia
Glenn Fahey, Rob JosephAugust 14, 2023AP53

Executive summary Australia’s Initial Teacher Education (ITE) sector has been under review for much of...

Trump’s goal to end Ukraine war makes moral sense
Tom SwitzerMarch 4, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN

Friday’s heated exchange in the White House was surely a regrettable moment in American diplomatic...

Albanese could learn from Howard when it comes to Indonesia
Andrew BlythSeptember 3, 2024SPECTATOR

Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto visiting Australia before he has even been inaugurated is a positive...

It’s the most volatile election in living memory and anything can and will happen
Tom SwitzerAugust 10, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

In five decades of living alternately on the two sides of the Pacific, I have...

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NATO’s Prophetic Critics. Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted
Tom SwitzerJune 10, 2024MODERN AGE

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired...

Why Republicans are sceptical about funding Ukraine
Tom SwitzerMarch 7, 2024SPECTATOR UK

When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America,...

The West’s bid to expand NATO eastwards was a mistake
Tom SwitzerFebruary 24, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

For the people of Ukraine, the failure of Western nations to help them defeat Russia...

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