By Shawna Foo, Senior Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
Maria Byrne, Professor of Marine Biology, University of Sydney
This is especially worrying because these massive corals are normally quite resilient to heat stress. Even the strong are now struggling to survive.
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By Juliet Bennett, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Alex Broom, Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
David Raubenheimer, Leonard P. Ullman Chair in Nutritional Ecology, Nutrition Theme Leader Charles Perkins Centre, Chair Sydney Food and Nutrition Network, University of Sydney
Food labels are intended to support healthy choices. But not all labelling schemes are equal.
Australia currently uses a voluntary Health Star Rating system. Food manufacturers can choose to add a star label to their packaging to indicate how it compares to other similar products. Or they can choose not to show a star rating on a product at all.
The Australian government is now considering making it mandatory.
But
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By Josephine Barbaro, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, Psychologist, La Trobe University
Marguerite Hawke, Research Officer and Writer at OTARC, La Trobe University
The book Someone Like Me offers deeply human insights into what it means to live in a neurotypical world as a neurodivergent person.
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By Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
The Australian Federal government’s Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act, commonly referred to as the “social media ban”, is now in effect.
In the months leading up to the ban, there have been a lot of stories about what will actually happen once the legislation is active, and many people believe the ban will prevent cyberbullying. It won’t – because bullying is a social problem, which can’t be solved with a quick technical fix.
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By Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of Art History, Griffith University
An enormous sun looms overhead in the gallery space. Somehow, it throbs and pulses with lights that render its surface active and alive. An austere rocky landscape inside another gallery reveals a riverbed and a narrow stream runs down the gentle slope towards the viewer.
Visitors explore, clamouring across the rocks and dipping their toes into the water to test the temperature. Outside, on a long table, visitors are invited to engage with hundreds of kilos of white Lego and build an imaginary cityscape.
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur…
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By Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
After the Rain, curated by Tony Albert, celebrates the resurgence of Australian Indigenous cultures in the aftermath of the loss of the referendum
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By Lisa Denny, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
An extensive government review of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in 2023 made 51 specific recommendations to enable “an RBA fit for the future”. But the narrow terms of reference confined the review to an economic lens.
The failure to investigate the effectiveness of monetary policy setting through a demographic lens has resulted in an RBA which is no longer fit for purpose.
The Reserve Bank…
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By Debbie Ging, Professor of Digital Media and Gender, Dublin City University
Digital Storytelling Team, The Conversation
It starts with one innocuous video. It ends in misogyny, anger and nihilism. Welcome to this online rabbit-hole of toxic masculinity.
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By Fiona Hurd, Associate Professor, Marketing & International Business, Auckland University of Technology
Suzette Dyer, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, University of Waikato
What happened to Tokoroa in 2025 underscored the fragility of NZ’s manufacturing base – and the consequences for local communities when decisions are made elsewhere.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Mothers who’ve been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care units or struggle to survive as they endure acute malnutrition, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
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