By Md Alamgir Hossain, Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Southern Queensland
In remote towns, what happens when the sun fails to shine, the wind barely blows and batteries begin to run low?
Too often, the answer is another costly diesel delivery.
Australia is already investing in regional and remote microgrids, including two First…
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By Leon Harris, Clinical Legal Educator/Course Coordinator, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
Recently, the Australian Football League (AFL) was rocked when it was revealed a Geelong player with a history of concussion had been asked to waive his legal rights to claim for any future brain trauma.
Read more: A secret waiver but no punishment: the AFL’s concussion conundrum just got murkier…
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By Cara Wrigley, Professor of Design, The University of Queensland
Amber Lark, Professor of Clinical and Forensic Victimology, Centre for Customs and Excise Studies, Charles Sturt University
Rachel Berry, Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, UNSW
It’s illegal to import or possess them, but child-like sex dolls can be bought online. Each seizure is an opportunity to prevent real child sex abuse.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The state party’s Senate ticket is shaping up to be a bunfight, with three senators up for election but perhaps only one likely to survive at the 2028 election.
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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 ahead in most polls three months after the budget, Victorian Labor is trailing the Liberals ahead of the November state election.
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By Luke Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
In Blue Giant, a reality TV trip-to-Mars novel, Jordan Prosser proves he’s a dazzlingly brilliant wordsmith – but is he too clever by half?
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By Georgina Patel, Research Associate, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology
Katey Thom, Associate Professor in Law, Auckland University of Technology
Khylee Quince, Dean of Law, Auckland University of Technology
NZ’s first large study of lawyer wellbeing finds widespread work-related distress – as well as some potential solutions to address it.
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By Brian Yates, Emeritus Professor, University of Tasmania
Nathan Kilah, Associate Professor in Chemistry and Associate Head Learning and Teaching, University of Tasmania
How we think and feel about science develops from an early age – and we never know where that early interest might take us.
Take Hannah. As a young child, she was fascinated by the way a glass prism can split sunlight into different colours. At university she studied the way light can interact with liquids.
Now Hannah works in the food industry, using light to study how oat milk changes when mixed with hot coffee. The reason your…
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By James C. Murphy, Lecturer & Tutor (Teaching Intensive) in Politics and Public Policy, The University of Melbourne
Emily Foley, Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University; University of Canberra
Phoebe Hayman, PhD Candidate and Casual Academic in Politics, La Trobe University
Tenzin Liddy-Corlett, PhD candidate in Politics, La Trobe University
Victorian voters surveyed named cost of living, crime and health as their top three policy issues, with just over three months until the next state election.
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By Steven Rowley, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
Owing more to the bank than your home is worth is a daunting prospect. But if you’ve bought a place to live in, not as an investment, there’s little reason to panic.
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