By Daljit Singh Bedi, PhD Candidate, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology
In the world of media, newsroom reporters and public relations practitioners have long been cast as natural adversaries.
One plays the nosy newshound, always sniffing around for a story. The other is often portrayed as the gatekeeping spin doctor, carefully controlling the flow of information.
When journalists move into communications or PR – as many do in search of better pay and more stable employment – it’s jokingly…
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Tuesday, July 28, 2026
A woman is stopped for buying groceries alone. The shopkeeper who served her is slapped and hauled in for questioning. A teacher is turned away from her own classroom for the wrong cloak.
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By Laura Misener, Professor & Director, School of Kinesiology, Western University
Katie Cronin, Assistant Professor of Physiotherapy, University of Birmingham
If the Commonwealth Games showcase sporting excellence, they also expose profound differences in who has the opportunity to reach the starting line.
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By Sabrina Lenzen, Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, The University of Queensland
Ask any parent, teacher or GP and they will tell you young people seem to be doing worse, mentally, than they used to.
National surveys back them up.
The share of Australians aged 16–24 reporting a mental health problem in the past year jumped from about 25% in 2007 to almost 40% by 2020–22.
In the United Kingdom, the proportion of people aged 17–19 with a “probable mental disorder” rose…
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By Kyle Hewitt, Neuroscientist and Associate Lecturer specialising in neuropsychopharmacology, University of Wollongong
If you’ve ever tried to read a scientific paper, you’ve almost certainly run into a p-value. And if you found it confusing, you’re in good company: plenty of working scientists misunderstand it too.
The p-value is a number measuring the “statistical significance” of an experiment, and it’s often treated as the adjudicator of whether the experiment really found something or not. It decides whether researchers get to say that a drug did something, or that one group differed from another.
Careers,…
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By Amy McLennan, Associate Professor, College of Systems and Society, Australian National University
Andrew Meares, Professor School of Cybernetics
Jacqueline Stephens, Associate Professor in Public Health, Flinders University
For people in South Australia, distressing images on social media and news feeds make it impossible to avoid the violence of the bloom.
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By Dennis Altman, Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
The Queer Bookshelf, a personal journey and quest to document queer writing, is smart and generous – but has some surprising omissions.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Smoke rises following an airstrike by Yemeni government forces in coalition with Saudi Arabia on Sanaa International Airport, Sanaa, Yemen, July 13, 2026. © 2026 Reuters Yemeni government forces in coalition with Saudi Arabia attacked Sanaa airport on July 13 with at least five airstrikes, three of which targeted the airport’s runway, according to Human Rights Watch’s analysis of satellite imagery. The attack was meant to prevent a flight operated by Mahan Air, a privately-owned Iranian airline, from landing at Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport, according to the…
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By Andrew Weaver, Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
Wildfire smoke does not carry a passport. Canada cannot thin, log, rake or prescribe-burn its way out of a planetary crisis.
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By Kannin Osei-Tutu, Senior Associate Dean, Health Equity and Systems Transformation, Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently launched AI for All — an ambitious five-year national strategy. It aims for $200 billion in economic growth, 250,000 new jobs and a surge in AI adoption across Canada, from 12 per cent to 60 per cent by 2034.
As someone who works daily at the intersection of medicine, health systems and equity — I’m a hospitalist physician and the inaugural senior associate dean for health equity and systems transformation…
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