By Maheen Waheed
Former Pakistan Prime Minister and jailed politician Imran Khan's recent tweet has stirred significant controversy on social media, sparking debates and speculation about his and his party's political future.
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By Natali Pearson, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
Martin Polkinghorne, Associate Professor in Archaeology, Flinders University
Nia Naelul Hasanah Ridwan, Maritime-Underwater Archaeologist and PhD Candidate on Archaeology (Humanities), Flinders University
Zainab Tahir, Marine Heritage Analyst and PhD Candidate, Flinders University
A lot of the recent talk about maritime issues in Southeast Asia has focused on issues such as security, the Blue Economy, law enforcement and climate change. But there’s one maritime challenge that’s gone underdiscussed: underwater heritage.
We are co-investigators on a research project called Reuniting…
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By Hendri Yulius Wijaya, PhD Student in Political Science (Joint Supervision with Business School), The University of Melbourne
Kate Macdonald, Associate Professor, Political Science, The University of Melbourne
Sustainability reporting isn’t about producing marketing material. It’s an opportunity for companies to honestly share the risks of doing business and present an action plan for addressing them.
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By Janine Mendes-Franco
Barbados' plans to purchase land — to the tune of GBP 3 million — from British Conservative MP Richard Drax whose forebears were slave traders, have been put on pause.
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By Tim Ziegler, Collection Manager, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Museums Victoria Research Institute
Finding and retrieving the bones of this extinct kangaroo relative – a ‘holy grail’ fossil – took hours of squeezing through narrow passages.
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By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
Since last year, I have been working on a project with my Thai mother who migrated to Australia in 1974 while pregnant with me. To fill in the archive, we’ve been looking towards AI.
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By Amanda Davies, Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
So few babies are Australians having that, without migration, Australia’s population would be on track to turn down from 2037.
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By Nalini Joshi, Professor of Mathematics, University of Sydney
A flawed paper shakes confidence in the foundations of ‘quantum-proof’ encryption – and highlights the need for a new generation of experts.
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By Hugh Breakey, Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University
A new book argues that the first generation to go through puberty connected to their smartphones have had their brains rewired for depression and anxiety.
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By Sarah Wilson, PhD Candidate in Quantum Technology & Innovation Governance, Institue for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Rachael Wakefield-Rann, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
In Australia, the taxpayer has footed the bill for the forever chemical clean-up so far. But this will have to change.
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