By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
While federal Labor remains well ahead of the competition, a poll modelling seat outcomes has Pauline Hanson’s party picking up a dozen in the lower house.
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By Miriam McCaleb, Fellow in Public Health, University of Canterbury
New research shows caregivers don’t get advice on smartphone use, even though we know it can affect a baby’s feeding, language development and attachment.
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By Megan Willis, Associate Professor, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
As Christmas approaches, many of us are busy making plans to spend the day with family – organising travel, buying presents and looking forward to (or perhaps dreading) long-held traditions.
For others, this time of year also brings a resurgence of grief as we face Christmas without family. This can be the result of distance and death. But for many, it’s due to family estrangement, though this often goes unspoken.
What is family estrangement?
Family estrangement is a deliberate and sustained…
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By Exile Hub
"“To me, being a feminist means kindness. If I stay silent when others suffer, one day it will be my turn to suffer too."
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By Christian Jakob, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Monash University
As Earth continues to warm, Australia faces some important decisions.
For example, where should we place solar and wind energy infrastructure to reliably supply Australians with electricity? How can we secure our food production and freshwater supply? Should we invest in bigger dams to increase our resilience to drought, or better flood mitigation to manage more intense rainfall?
Deciding on the best path forward depends on having reliable and detailed information about about how wind, water and sunlight will behave in our future. This information is provided by
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By Jaelen Nicole Myers, Research Officer, TropWATER, James Cook University
As an ecologist who studies stingrays, people always ask me: what do these creatures eat? It may well be the reason I’ve spent the past three years tackling this very question.
We do know that, generally speaking, stingrays like eating benthic invertebrates – creepy-crawlies buried in the sediment along the sandy bottom. But there’s much we don’t understand about how the diet varies among different species depending on their size and where they live. In short, it’s more complex than you’d think.
My colleagues and I at James Cook University published a new study in
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By Nitin Deckha, Lecturer in Justice Studies, Early Childhood Studies, Community and Social Services and Electives, University of Guelph-Humber
Rather than dismissing young workers as distracted or too demanding of work-life balance, we might consider they’re sounding the alarm of what’s broken at work and how we can fix it.
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By Gemma Nisbet, Lecturer in Professional Writing and Publishing, Curtin University
In The Snag, Tessa McWatt reflects on grief in all its multifaceted forms – from her mother’s dementia to global climate grief – as she looks at how trees communicate.
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By Rod McNaughton, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Innovation, disruption and risk are central to the entrepreneurial mindset. But they are hard to measure with conventional business or educational metrics.
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By Nisa Salim, Director, Swinburne-CSIRO National Testlab for Composite Additive Manufacturing, Swinburne University of Technology
Moths and chemical reactions are the enemies of natural fibre – but there are easy ways to keep your clothes safe.
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