By Ruth Balint, Professor of History, UNSW Sydney
In Raven Mother, Jane Messer writes of the grandmother she never knew: a woman who defied expectations but was undone by war, displacement, exile and separation.
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By Sharon Kaye Parker, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Curtin University
Australians’ sense of job insecurity is now as bad as it was in COVID, when unemployment hit 6.4%. Yet there are steps that can help turn fear into action.
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By Joel Scanlan, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Law; Academic Co-Lead, CSAM Deterrence Centre, University of Tasmania
As of May 8 end-to-end encryption is no longer available on direct messages on Instagram.
Meta, in announcing the policy reversal, said it had done so because few people used the feature. But this has raised questions about its impact on user privacy and whether it will improve child safety on the platform.
Instagram has long been a focal point for…
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By Kimberley Reid, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
It’s been a very warm and dry autumn for much of southern Australia – and winter looks set to be similar.
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By Deborah Te Kawa, PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
Barbara Allen, Associate Professor in Public Management and Policy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The public sector is being encouraged to embrace AI. But can the largely voluntary governance framework we’re building to manage the technology be trusted to work?
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By Catharine Fleming, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Western Sydney University
Teenagers often love chocolate bars and hot chips. A paediatric nutritionist explains how we can help them make healthier choices.
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By Kaveh Khalilpour, Associate Professor in Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney
Tallat Jabeen, AI and Data Analytics Researcher, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Electric vehicles promise cleaner transport. But unlike rooftop solar, which is spread through communities, wealthier Australian households are the ones buying EVs.
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By Erin Harper, Lecturer, School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Marianne Fenech, Professor, Early Childhood Governance, University of Sydney
Ahead of the 2026 federal budget, Education Minister Jason has announced plans for a new national commission for early education and care.
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By Jane Dahlstrom, Pathologist and Emeritus Professor, ANU School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University
Warning: this article is about stillbirth and its investigations, including autopsies and related procedures.
About six babies are stillborn in Australia every day – an incredibly difficult time for families.
Understandably, they want to know why their baby died. But for one in three stillbirths in Australia, we don’t have a reason, often…
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By Victoria Lorrimar, Director, Centre for Technology and Human Futures, University of Notre Dame Australia
Tim Smartt, Senior Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia
Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI).
Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, the system created a leaderboard ranked by the number of tokens each user was exchanging with AI models, with leaders given titles such as “Token Legend”. (Tokens are tiny chunks of…
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