By Lisa Meehan, Director, NZ Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology
Gail Pacheco, Adjunct Professor, Auckland University of Technology
Thomas Schober, Senior Research Fellow, NZ Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology
Over 50 years, NZ women moved into men’s jobs but men didn’t move the other way. New data, published ahead of a major report, shows why pay equity still matters.
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By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education and Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University
Tom Hartley, Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
For Australia to build on its record-breaking Winter Olympics, it will need continued facility development, cheaper access and more pathways.
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By Lachlan Hart, Lecturer, School of Education, UNSW Sydney
The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons often flood the Martuwarra Fitzroy River – an artery to the Indian Ocean – in the region’s south.
But if you were to travel back to the Early Triassic period, 250 million years ago, you would see a very different landscape. Back then, the land was covered in brackish water and was more like a mudflat, on the shore of a shallow bay.
Inhabiting this area were creatures a far stretch…
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By Benjamin Isakhan, Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
Eleanor Childs, Graduate Researcher, Deakin University
UNESCO has been far too cautious over Gaza. This allows the destruction of historical sites to be treated as regrettable collateral damage, instead of a crime.
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By Pnina Levine, Senior Lecturer, Curtin Law School, Curtin University
Students are returning for the start of the academic year. The do so amid highly-charged debates around racism and antisemitism in Australia.
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By Toni Pikoos, Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology; Federation University Australia
Ben Buchanan, Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
For nearly three years, we’ve assessed Australians’ mental health before they have cosmetic surgery. So what difference has it made?
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By Laura Manenti, Experimental particle physicist, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney
A new map offers a new perspective on the city, revealing the steady, ever-present natural radiation emerging from the ground beneath our feet.
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By Anna Marie Brennan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato
Satellite remote sensing allows rapid, detailed disaster response and planning. But the rules governing who controls and has access to the data aren’t keeping up.
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By Michelle Moffitt, Associate Professor in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
Farmers and nursery managers often use fungicide is to tackle plant rust disease, but we need to find ways to decrease our reliance on fungicide treatment.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
On the legality of US threats against Iran, the haunting story of Lord of the Flies and more: an edited selection of your views.
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