By Chris Tonkin, Associate Professor, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
One in three people worldwide carry a brain-dwelling parasite. Should that keep us awake at night? And are you at risk if you don’t have a cat?
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By Joanne Wallis, Professor of International Security, Adelaide University
Jack Corbett, Professor, Politics and International Relations, Monash University
Australia has long shifted from neglect to anxiety and activity in its relationship with the Pacific. Here’s why, and how, that needs to change.
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By Christopher Pollard, Associate Teaching Fellow, Sociology, Deakin University
Gramsci was writing in the face of the collapse of revolutionary hopes. But he rejected the dominant Marxist thinking of his day.
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By Andrew B. Watkins, Adjunct Professor (Practice) in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
There’s nothing like gliding down a snow-covered slope.
That’s if you ask the thousands of people that make an annual pilgrimage to our alpine resorts during the Australian winter.
But this year, the start to the snow season has been far from spectacular.
While there is still some way to go before the typical peak of the season in mid- to late August, maximum snow depths have declined by around 30% since the middle…
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By Kimberlee Weatherall, Professor of Law, University of Sydney
This week, Andrew Charlton, the federal assistant minister for science and technology, issued a stark warning about artificial intelligence (AI).
Speaking at the AI Safety Forum at the University of Sydney, he said powerful AI models “are already doing things their creators never intended: cheating, deceiving, going their own way”.
In response, the Australian government has established the AI Safety Institute under…
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By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
Lynette Russell, Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University. Deputy Director ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Monash University
Matthew Cody Nitschke, Research Associate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
Sean Ulm, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
Shane Ingrey, Postdoctoral research fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF), UNSW Sydney
New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.
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By Loukas Koungoulos, Laureate Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Isaac A. R. Kerr, Research Assistant at Flinders University Palaeontology Laboratory, Flinders University
Sue O'Connor, Distinguished Professor, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University
Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea.
First discovered by Western science in 1983, Protemnodon tumbuna was roughly the size of a modern red kangaroo but much more stocky and muscular. Most peculiarly, it hopped little, if at all. It moved mostly on all fours, with long, strong forelimbs providing support for agile bounding through complex and steep terrain.
This strange animal was one of many megafauna that once roamed Australia…
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By James Horncastle, Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
Spending by NATO members show they are prioritizing the strategic needs of the alliance as a whole rather than simply giving in to Donald Trump’s demands.
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By Fei Gao, Lecturer in Taxation, Discipline of Accounting, Governance & Regulation, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
Richard Krever, Professor of Tax Law, The University of Western Australia
For the best part of a century, Australian property investors have enjoyed a generous tax arrangement found in few other countries: the infamous “negative gearing”.
Now, sweeping reforms to limit negative gearing to new builds and also change the way capital gains are taxed have become…
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By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Our country has a gambling problem.
More than 8% of adults are negatively impacted by gambling, on some level. And 1% of adults experience extreme gambling harm, meaning they’re gambling at very high risk.
And young people are being increasingly sucked into the world of gambling.
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