By Alexey D Muraviev, Senior research fellow, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
The Ukraine war certainly featured in conversations. Tellingly, however, Putin steered many talks with leaders towards fuel, trade and transit.
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By Kerrie Sadiq, Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
Australia’s laws don’t deal with all the ways local profits are shifted offshore. The ATO aims to close that gap.
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By Andrew Cullen, Senior Research Fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
AI companies are calling for a coordinated pause to progress – but making it working, and keeping AI safe, won’t be easy.
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By Caroline Wake, Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, UNSW
The internationally acclaimed fusion of choreography and monologue, co-created by Hepi with Mish Grigor, is a witty exploration of beginnings
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By Kcasey McLoughlin, Associate Professor, University of Newcastle
Mary Genevieve Gaudron, the first woman judge on the High Court of Australia, has died aged 83.
Known for her courage, integrity and compassion, Gaudron brought her fierce intellect to bear on some of the nation’s most significant legal cases. In the process, she helped change the legal profession and became an inspiration to many young women lawyers.
Early life
Born in Moree in country New South Wales in 1943, there is a famous…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Recent polling shows if the disruption caused by the Trump administration’s war with Iran continues, Democrats will likely gain control of Congress.
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By John Hawkins, Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
It says something not too flattering about Australian politics that respected academic Paul Strangio’s new book The Alchemy of Leadership only discusses 21st century prime ministers, but still needs to cover seven of them. Or eight, if you count Kevin Rudd twice.
A possible reason for this volatility, according to the
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
One Nation on Monday released a radical policy proposing Australia net overseas migration (NOM) be negative over three years, as the country reduced its temporary migrant population by 750,000.
Under its plan, the student intake would be dramatically cut, the opportunity for temporary students, graduates and temporary workers to sponsor family members would be substantially restricted, “visa hopping” would be attacked, and those here illegally would be booted from the country.
One Nation is not providing numbers for the individuals years of the three-year period when the…
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By Philippa Karoly, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne
You’re likely familiar with the idea of a circadian rhythm – your body’s 24-hour cycle that governs sleep and wakefulness.
It turns out that resting heart rate also follows mysterious, long rhythms that run independently of the outside world. Resting heart rate is measured by how many beats per minute your heart makes while you’re calm and inactive. This measure is linked to stress, fatigue and fitness.
Our new study, published in EBioMedicine, looked at years of smartwatch data from hundreds of young…
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By Leo M Condron, Distinguished Professor of Soil Science, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Since the end of the second world war, adding phosphorus to soils in the form of mineral fertiliser has played a crucial role in increasing and maintaining global food production in response to population growth.
However, plants only take up 20-50% of the phosphorus from fertiliser applications.
The unused phosphorus is mainly stabilised through chemical reactions which bind it to soil minerals. It accumulates as “legacy soil phosphorus”, with an increased risk of contributing to water pollution.
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