By Vera Weisbecker, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
Andrew Pask, Professor, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
Douglass S Rovinsky, Associate Research Scientist, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Some 90 years after the death of the last documented thylacine – better known as the Tasmanian tiger – the species remains a global symbol of human-made extinction.
The carnivorous marsupial fell victim to 19th-century colonists’ perception that unfamiliar creatures were primitive, vermin-like imitations of more familiar European animals. The species was later exterminated due to sensationalist claims that it was a ferocious, wolf-like predator of sheep.
However, our new
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By Harrison Budak
Backed by Ukrainian oligarchs, the projects would dramatically increase the country’s poultry output and place a significant burden on local lives and natural resources.
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By Diane Kraal, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University
Richard Denniss is an economist and head of the Australia Institute, a Canberra-based policy think tank. His monograph More Fool Me: How the Gas Industry Tricked Australia is an impassioned plea for ordinary Australians to lobby relevant federal ministers to more effectively tax the export gas industry.
The ineffectiveness of the current Petroleum…
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By Nick Kelly, Associate Professor in Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology
The 1960s were a time of great change in technology, culture and politics. Television was radically altering the media environment, and nobody was quite sure how to think about it.
As the world struggles with the impact of another new high-tech medium – generative artificial intelligence (AI) – two thinkers from that era have acquired new relevance for understanding what is happening and where we’re heading.
Investors are sinking billions of dollars into AI companies and data centres in the belief that AI will change the world. But how should we think about AI? Is it a…
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By Rebecca Cairns, Senior Lecturer in Education, Deakin University
Kerri Anne Garrard, Senior Lecturer in Education, Deakin University
There are fewer students continuing to study history in Year 12 than ever before. But that doesn’t mean they don’t value it.
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By Charlotte Farrell, Lecturer, Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
Jorjia Gillis’ comedy on racism and sexism is premiering at Griffin Theatre Company. It has a sharp edge and a big heart.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The National Assembly Complex in Abuja, Nigeria, November 26, 2024. © 2024 Xinhua/Shutterstock (Abuja) – A proposed law to regulate foreign aid risks undermining the independence of civil society organizations and shrinking civic space in Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said today. The National Assembly should reject provisions that would give authorities undue influence over the funding and activities of independent organizations. In May 2026, the Senate introduced the Foreign Aid (Regulation, Transparency and Disclosure) Bill, which seeks to regulate…
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By Alex Polyakov, Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
A Gold Coast woman has given birth to twins who aren’t genetically related to each other, after becoming pregnant with a surrogate couple’s embryo and her own biological baby at the same time.
This has produced one of the rarest outcomes in reproductive medicine, the first in Australia and only the third…
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By John Woinarski, Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
The lethal H5N1 strain of avian influenza is rapidly spreading along the coast of southern Australia, where it has killed thousands of wild birds and infected at least two long-nosed fur seals.
So where will it travel next, and what damage might it inflict? Much…
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By Mike Annear, Senior Lecturer, Department of Tourism, Sport & Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Hoani Smith, Lecturer in Sport Management and Sport Science, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Richard Keith Wright, Associate Professor in Sport Leadership & Management, Auckland University of Technology
Elite athletes share with the rest of us a common underlying physiology and the capacity to adapt significantly to training. It’s never too late to start.
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