Books & arts
21 August 2025
Lawyer, educator, judge and royal commissioner Hal Wootten never lost sight of “those on whom the law bore harshly”
National affairs
10 July 2025
The school system has spent fifty years not fixing one of its central flaws
National affairs
9 May 2025
What could an incoming education minister do about schools?
Essays & reportage
11 April 2025
A Yes voter’s journey into her family’s past raises the question: what about those who voted No?
National affairs
28 March 2025
At last, the Gonski money — which raises a new set of questions
Essays & reportage
6 March 2025
An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there
National affairs
28 January 2025
Can South Australia’s flicker of educational inspiration be turned into a beacon?
Essays & reportage
10 December 2024
A taken-for-granted is being questioned at last, with implications in education and elsewhere
National affairs
24 October 2024
Labor’s “national approach” to schooling has failed. It’s time for a rethink
Books & arts
17 October 2024
Two sociologists and a teacher wrestle with meritocracy
Essays & reportage
10 October 2024
As the first anniversary of the Voice vote approaches, should we be thinking differently about truth-telling?
National affairs
27 September 2024
The Monthly and the Saturday Paper are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story?
Essays & reportage
10 July 2024
Vilified for his “exhibitionist ecclesiastical activism,” an Italian priest created a fertile place of learning
Books & arts
14 June 2024
Money might bestow enormous power, but is the triumph of the wealthy complete?
Essays & reportage
25 March 2024
A different kind of school reform is needed — reform of governance, the sector system and the daily work of students and teachers
Essays & reportage
15 November 2022
How a journey north from Adelaide led to Telling Tennant’s Story, the 2022 Political Book of the Year
Essays & reportage
19 October 2022
Three new Productivity Commission reports highlight big problems in schooling and school reform — and in the commission’s own thinking
Books & arts
27 September 2022
Does sport have anything to teach Australian schools?
National affairs
6 September 2022
The education revolution failed — and so did its way of thinking
Books & arts
12 November 2021
A new analysis of Australian education provides clues as to what’s gone wrong
National affairs
9 April 2020
A new settlement might just appeal to Coalition supporters, and to Labor’s
Books & arts
3 December 2019
Another bad PISA report suggests that Australia has not learned the basic lesson: school reform won’t work in the absence of major structural change
National affairs
15 January 2019
It’s time for the AWM to rethink its attitude to the frontier wars. But that means its critics, and the Labor Party, need to change tack too
National affairs
5 November 2018
Like the Australian War Memorial itself, many of its critics share a fundamental blind spot
National affairs
4 May 2018
The latest Gonski report points a way to the future of school reform, but has not broken with its disastrous past
National affairs
5 March 2018
Labor’s shadow education minister faces the problem of working out why school reform has failed, and what a federal education minister could do about it
Books & arts
24 January 2018
Books | A senior vice-chancellor argues for big changes in tertiary education — but not in universities
National affairs
9 November 2017
How can money make an educational difference? In his submission to the second Gonski review, Dean Ashenden offered some suggestions
National affairs
12 May 2017
After a forty-year detour, are we heading towards a plan envisaged in 1973?
National affairs
4 May 2017
A successful Gonski version 2 is essential – but far from sufficient – for genuine school reform