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The governance of sustainability: how companies manage their corporate responsibilities

3 February 2012 - 3:29pm
Creator:  Alice Klettner

This study reviews the structure of corporate responsibility in a sample of twelve large, listed Australian companies.

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Targeting support for high needs students in primary schools

3 February 2012 - 12:44pm
Creator:  Max Angus Creator:  Harriet Olney

Australian governments are adding resources to schools to achieve better educational outcomes through a series of National Education Partnerships between the Australian Government and state governments.

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The State of Marketing 2011: Unica’s Annual Survey of Marketers

2 February 2012 - 2:56pm

The opportunity to understand what marketers are thinking and doing during a period of unprecedented change and increasing expectations has made Unica’s Annual Survey of Marketers a must read.

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CCI Report highlights role of social media in floods coverage and response

1 February 2012 - 4:02pm
Creator:  Kate Crawford Creator:  Jean Burgess Creator:  Frances Shaw Creator:  Axel Bruns

Social media sites Twitter and Facebook played a crucial role in disseminating information during the 2011 Queensland floods.

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Boost for Australian content and innovation

1 February 2012 - 3:53pm

Australian content should receive a boost in an increasingly convergent media world, if the findings of the Federal Government’s interim report – released today – are carried into policy.

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Law must navigate the seas of social media

31 January 2012 - 2:57pm

We must move past the culture of blame, argues Chris Harrison for The Punch.

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A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s play

31 January 2012 - 2:24pm

The women’s tournament is not equal in work to the men’s, writes Mark Gottlieb for The Punch.

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Students as learning designers: using social media to scaffold the experience

31 January 2012 - 1:16pm
Creator:  Miriam Tanti Creator:  Leanne Cameron

The ‘students as learning designers’ approach challenges transmission models of pedagogy and requires teachers to relinquish some control to their students so that they might have the space to experiment and discover how to learn.

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Digital futures for cultural and media studies

31 January 2012 - 11:03am

As they play with their digital devices and online games, children may unknowingly be making up the kind of democracy we will have tomorrow.

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Privacy in networked places - a talk by Danah Boyd

31 January 2012 - 10:36am

There is a widespread myth that young people don’t care about privacy. Embedded in this myth is an assumption that participation in public social media like Facebook and Twitter indicates a rejection of privacy. Yet, just because people want to participate in public life doesn’t mean that they want everything they do to go down on their permanent record or to be publicized for the whole world to see. This talk will examine how young people understand privacy and the strategies they take to achieve privacy in networked publics.

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The truth about privacy

31 January 2012 - 10:15am

As technology makes our world more transparent, handeling both customer data is both a riskand an opportunity for businesses.

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Mapping Australian higher education

30 January 2012 - 10:04pm
Creator:  Andrew Norton

Australia’s higher education system is entering one of its most significant years in recent history.

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Broadcasting Services Amendment (Regional Commercial Radio) Bill 2011

27 January 2012 - 3:30pm
Creator:  Rhonda Jolly

This proposes of this Bill is to digest and amend the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (the BSA) with the aim of easing the regulatory burden on regional commercial radio broadcasters.

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TCF Australian nonwovens manufacturing technology roadmap

27 January 2012 - 1:14pm
Creator:  Bill Humphries

This report is an industry aligned technology roadmap of the TCF Nonwoven Textiles field. It provides detail to help ensure the industry has the technical capability to be globally competitive.

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2011 independent review of the intelligence community

27 January 2012 - 10:29am

This is the first comprehensive review of the Australian intelligence community since the 2004 inquiry conducted by Mr Philip Flood AO.

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Piracy and prosecution: Ringing in Kim Dotcom

25 January 2012 - 9:06am

Journalists have found their demon figure in the form of an anti-copyright maestro writes Binoy Kampmark for APO.

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Margaret Thatcher, between myth and politics

24 January 2012 - 12:38pm

The Iron Lady's portrayal of Britain’s most divisive modern prime minister fits a broader mood of reappraisal of her years in power, says David Hayes in Inside Story

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STEM and non-STEM first year students

24 January 2012 - 11:51am

This report highlights Australian students' growing lack of appreciation of the relevance and role of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in their lives and their potential for rewarding career opportunities.

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Beyond switchover: the future technical evolution of digital terrestrial television in Australia

24 January 2012 - 9:23am
ACMA seeks comment on technical migration issues for digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB) services

This paper starts a discussion about some of the issues for the future technical migration of free-to-air DTTB. While the discussion paper and consultation is intended to be broad-ranging, certain matters are outside their scope.

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