By Rohan Havelock, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Rising premiums and insurer retreat reflect deeper shifts in risk – and strain on a system built for a different era.
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By Ziyad Al-Aly, Clinical Epidemiologist, Washington University in St. Louis
A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He didn’t set a quit date. He simply lost interest. It happened without effort.
Another patient on one of these drugs for weight loss told me that alcohol had lost its pull – after years of failed attempts to quit.
People struggling with many addictions, ranging from opioids to gambling, are reporting…
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By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
Dennis Cometti was one of Australia’s finest sports broadcasters, with many of his one-liners to live on in footy vernacular.
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By Nick Bisley, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University
This begins with an honest recognition of the changing direction of US policy, stated plainly and directly to the Australian people.
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By Shae McCrystal, Professor of Labour Law, University of Sydney
The standard right to four weeks off hasn’t changed since 1974. But on its own, giving people an extra week off won’t fix the issue of workers doing unpaid overtime.
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By Paul Strangio, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Monash University
The federal Liberal Party has not had a leader from Victoria since 1990. It says a lot about its electoral slide and its shift to the right.
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By Grant Russell, Professor of Primary Care Research, Monash University
The clinics have received millions of visits since they opened in 2023. But a recent report suggests not everyone can get the care they need, when they need it.
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By Louise Francis, Lecturer, Health Promotion, Curtin University
At some point, Australia must accept that it is time to break the chokehold commercial gambling has on this country.
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By Andrew J. May, Professor of History, The University of Melbourne
In 1981, a jingle played out across Australia, encouraging us to “Slip, Slop, Slap!”
In 2023, the jingle was added to the National Film & Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia registry in recognition of the way the tune – and its message – helped shape Australia.
But Slip, Slop, Slap! wasn’t the start of Australian skin cancer messaging. For that, we need to travel back to the 1930s.
What does going back in time tell us about our relationship to…
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By Brian Choo, Postdoctoral Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology, Flinders University
Jing Lu, PhD Candidate, Evolutionary Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth.
Long extinct, this predatory fish (Megamastax amblyodus) was an ancient forerunner of all animals with a skeleton and a backbone alive today – including you and me – and was the world’s oldest known vertebrate apex predator that lived at the top of the food chain in its environment.
In a new paper published in Nature today, we report…
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