By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Nationals leader David Littleproud easily saw off a spill motion as he and Sussan Ley plan to meet to discuss restoring the Coalition.
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By Andrei Quintiá Pastrana, Investigador Ramón y Cajal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Alba Nogueira López, Catedrática de Derecho Administrativo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
In Europe, national and regional parliaments widely recognise citizens’ entitlement to protection in areas like housing, fuel and access to health and social care. But across the continent, growing numbers of people entitled to social benefits never actually receive them.
Complex application processes, burdensome requirements,…
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By Narmin Nahidi, Assistant Professor in Finance, University of Exeter
Green finance is built on a promise: that capital can be redirected to support the transition to a low-carbon economy while avoiding the environmental mistakes of the past. That promise is getting harder to keep.
The technologies needed for decarbonisation of electric vehicles, wind turbines, batteries and grid infrastructure rely on large quantities of critical minerals. Extracting those materials, even from remote places such as Greenland, remains environmentally disruptive, socially contested…
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By Julian Givi, Assistant Professor of Marketing, West Virginia University
Colleen P. Kirk, Assistant Professor of Marketing, New York Institute of Technology
Danielle Hass, Ph.D. Candidate in Marketing, West Virginia University
As Valentine’s Day approaches, finding the perfect words to express your feelings for that special someone can seem like a daunting task – so much so that you may feel tempted to ask ChatGPT for an assist.
After all, within seconds it can dash off a well-written, romantic message. Even a short, personalized limerick or poem is no sweat.
But before you copy and paste that AI-generated love note, you might want to consider how it could make you feel about yourself.
We research the intersection of consumer behavior and technology, and we’ve been studying how people…
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By Danusha Jayawardana, Research Fellow in Health Economics, Monash University
Gawain Heckley, Researcher in Health Economics, Lund University
Nicole Black, Associate Professor of Health Economics, Monash University
Where kids are born in a family can be important. But it is not just about who gets more grown-up privileges or parental pressure.
Research tells us firstborn children, on average, tend to do better on a range of outcomes. This includes doing better at school and being more likely to be top managers when compared to those born later.
In our
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By Caitlin Burns, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
I read the books that helped shape The Family, the cult founded by an Australian yoga teacher in the 1960s – when Western societies were newly fascinated by the East.
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By Peter Mares, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
At its best, the scheme changes lives – like an abattoir worker using savings to supply clean drinking water to his Vanuatu village. But exploitation remains rife.
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By Grace Waye-Harris, Early Career Researcher in History, Adelaide University
Stories of sex, power and public execution in Tudor England provide endless entertainment. But let’s not forget their magnificent fashion.
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By Alice Barratt, PhD Candidate, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
Christopher Turbill, Associate Professor, School of Science and the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
In Sturt National Park, near Tibooburra in central Australia where temperatures can range from freezing to nearly 50°C, there lives a small bird with a white back, forked tail and – as we’ve just discovered – a very clever strategy to survive its extreme environment.
The white-backed swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna) is a type of passerine – the largest group of birds, comprising 60% of all bird species.
Scientists have long thought these birds incapable of deep torpor – a controlled state of reduced body temperature that saves energy and has been found in many…
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By Claire Henry, Associate Professor in Screen, Flinders University
Michael S. Daubs, Senior Lecturer in Media, Film, and Communication, University of Otago
With a major inquiry into online harms nearing its conclusion, NZ faces a pivotal decision about how boldly it wants to respond.
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