By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The treasurer says there’s ‘likely to be billions of dollars extra’ in higher bills on government debt in December’s budget update.
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By Zulker Naeen
Thousands of Bangladeshis travelled to Cambodia for promised jobs, only to encounter Technology-facilitated trafficking and cyber-scamming networks, with 98 percent reportedly failing to receive the work they were promised.
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By Kelvin (Shiu Fung) Wong, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology
Isabella Gomez, PhD Candidate of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
Some people with obsessive-compulsive disorder have experienced traumatic events as children, and develop a deeply held fear of who they are or might become.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A student during a vigil for victims of gender-based violence and femicide at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, September 18, 2026. © 2026 Esa Alexander/Reuters The discovery of several women’s bodies on the outskirts of South Africa’s commercial capital, Johannesburg, has caused fear, anxiety and outrage across the country. All the women were found naked or partially clothed, according to police. Some of the bodies had bruising.At least three suspects are already in custody as authorities continue to examine possible links between the killings.These mysterious…
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By Phil Lester, Professor of Ecology and Entomology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
DNA analysis shows almost a third of what the invasive pests have been feeding their larvae consists of honey bees, making eradication vital.
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By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
A Senate inquiry report into last year’s Optus outage provides the government with a blueprint to modernise the telco industry.
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By Dennis Altman, Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
Ahead of the release of Charles Spencer’s controversial memoir, Dennis Altman picks 5 reads shedding light on the British monarchy.
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By Jessica Tout-Lyon, Lecturer and Researcher, Marine, Molecular and Microbial Ecology, Charles Sturt University
Elise Furlan, Researcher, Molecular Ecology, University of Canberra
Louise Streeting, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England
Mathew John Bell, Senior Ecologist, Art Gallery NSW
The Manning River Helmeted turtle (Myuchelys purvisi) might just be Australia’s most beautiful freshwater turtle.
With a bright yellow stripe stretching from their nose to the tip of their tail, these striking turtles are hard to miss.
The Manning River turtle is found nowhere else on earth except for the few…
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By Luke Heemsbergen, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University
Apple’s vision of constant recording that still ‘protects your privacy’ may help usher in a world where ambient surveillance is the norm.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Togay speaks to the United Nations General Assembly during Summit of the Future at the U.N. headquarters, September 22, 2024. © 2024 Frank Franklin/AP Photo When Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay meets world leaders at the United Nations general assembly in New York this week, they should urge him to release the at least 28 political prisoners who are still held in dreadful conditions in his country’s jails.The small Himalayan kingdom projects itself to the world as the land that invented “gross national happiness,” but that…
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