By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
The great mistake was not the failure to stop the attacks, but the failure to understand how terrorism can amplify its impact through our response to outrage.
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By William Maley, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
After the signing of the Munich agreement in 1938 that allowed Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia, Winston Churchill spoke of the fate of that country in a powerful speech in the House of Commons:
Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness.
The same could…
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By Elizabeth Musgrave, Associate Professor of Architecture, Bond University
At 10:28am on September 11 2001 New York City’s skyline was suddenly and dramatically altered.
The world watched television screens in horror as first the North Tower and then the South Tower collapsed, with the death of almost 3,000 people and the devastation of an entire city precinct.
Resilient New Yorkers responded to this shocking event and its aftermath with fortitude, quickly setting in train processes for memorials and the planning and construction of new towers.
That the Twin…
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By Kyle J.D. Mulrooney, Associate professor in Criminology, University of New England
The alleged theft of thousands of sheep in Queensland shows how difficult it can be to detect and prevent farm crime.
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By Nicole Black, Associate Professor of Health Economics, Monash University
David Johnston, Professor of Health Economics, Monash University
Johannes Kunz, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University
Lachlan Deer, Lecturer in Marketing, The University of Melbourne
R U OK? Day is Australia’s most recognisable mental health campaign. A study using nine years of data looked at how it affected wellbeing and access to care.
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By Anne Kennedy, Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne
Children who are developmentally behind do not have the thinking, social and emotional skills needed for learning and getting along with their peers.
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By Jose Yong, Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Health Sciences, James Cook University
It’s difficult to imagine a song like Queen’s 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody topping the charts today. Almost six minutes long, it moves through several radically different musical sections and famously ignores the conventional structure of a pop song. It seems almost designed to break the rules of what a hit single should be.
Fifty years later, popular music seems to have moved in the opposite direction. Once artists and producers figure out what makes a commercial hit – from its length…
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By Sarah Legge, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Australian National University
Samantha Murray, CEO, Indigenous Desert Alliance, Indigenous Knowledge
Stan Lui, Director, Five Cubed Environmental, Indigenous Knowledge
Since the first pilot program in 1998, Australia’s Indigenous Protected Areas have grown hugely. How can we strengthen them for the future?
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By Shannon Davis, Lecturer in Landscape Planning, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Jacky Bowring, Professor in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Marcus Robinson, Senior Tutor in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Reshaping local boundaries based on river catchments would make for a more cohesive approach to all aspects of water management – and how communities really live.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.
Monday September 7
“Reading ‘Grattan on Friday: economic life won’t get much better until Australians climb that productivity mountain’, I couldn’t help but think of what I saw Alan Kohler say on ABC TV News (more than once). Kohler considered…
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