By Flavio Menezes, Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
Inspired by New York, a Greens’ research thinktank is proposing a new national chain of public supermarkets. An economist explains the gaps in its $25 billion cost.
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By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
Turkey and Pakistan are poised to send troops to Saudi Arabia, but so far the Trump administration has avoided getting involved.
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By Anthony Wiskich, Visiting Fellow in Economics, Australian National University
Smaller electric trucks are already on Australian city streets. As battery prices fall, bigger trucks will become viable – especially if there’s no driver.
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By Marcus Harmes, Professor in Pathways Education, University of Southern Queensland
Eva Marie Saint, who has died aged 102, was showered in awards across her long career. Her performances spanned from her first stage appearances in 1942 to her final film appearance in 2019.
But while she was the last star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, it was television’s Golden Age where she began her long career. It was television and then even newer formats like podcasting that sustained it.
Saint was celebrated as a film star, including her landmark performances for Hollywood’s best directors including Elia Kazan, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and John Frankenheimer.…
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By Kat Henry, Lecturer and Researcher, Theatre Department, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
During talk therapy one day, my psychologist said to me, “Look, the human mind is a mystery. We may never fully work things out.” For me, it was at once shocking that a psychologist was so candid about the limitations of their profession, and liberating. It allowed me to relax into the enigma of being human – the endless contradictions, complexities and obscured insights within us all.
I began to see talk therapy as an ongoing curiosity about our interiors, rather than heading toward a fixed endpoint.
That psychologist was a real human, but talk therapy from artificial…
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By Sylvia Nissen, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Alexandra Palmer, Research Officer, Department of Environmental Management, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Raven Cretney, Senior Lecturer, Department of Tourism, Sport and Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand
A new analysis tracking three decades of public discussion about GM finds economic arguments have increasingly crowded out cultural and ethical questions.
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By Tyce DeYoung, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics recognizes Francis Halzen’s vision in building an unusual telescope in Antarctica, as well as the neutrino discoveries it’s made.
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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
Americans are deeply unhappy with the Iran war and inflation, and the president and fellow Republicans are paying the price.
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By Daniel Angus, Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Timothy Graham, Associate Professor in Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology
Australia’s new Digital Duty of Care bill proposes a significant shift in online safety. Rather than simply responding to harmful content after it appears, platforms would be required to identify “all reasonably foreseeable risks” of harm in their services and take “effective measures” to tackle them.
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By Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of Art History, Griffith University
For over two decades, Justene Williams has developed a distinctive visual language. Her survey show, Once We Were Mudskippers, is now at the Queensland Art Gallery.
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