By Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
This week, around 80 world leaders – including Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – will descend on the coastal Turkish city of Antalya for the annual United Nations climate summit, COP31. For the first time, the summit duties will be shared; Turkey will play host, while Australia leads negotiations.
At home, these national leaders have no shortage of issues to contend with: the challenges of AI,…
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By Matt McDonald, Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, is about to embark on his most significant diplomatic challenge. For the next two weeks, Bowen takes on the role of “president of negotiations” at the United Nations climate summit, COP31, in Turkey, also called Türkiye.
Bowen is regarded as a strong negotiator, held…
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By Steven Lewis, Associate Professor of Education Policy, Australian Catholic University
Sarah Langman, Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
Australian school students already do major tests in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 before going on to final exams in Year 12.
But amid ongoing concern around Australian students’ academic performance, there’s been a call for more testing.
The Page Research Centre, affiliated with the National Party, has proposed…
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By Cally Jetta, Associate Professor; School of Education, Curtin University
The 2019 shooting of the young Aboriginal man wasn’t an isolated event. A new documentary offers a confronting examination of the bigger picture.
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By Claire Wright, Senior Lecturer and Business Historian, School of Management, University of Technology Sydney
Jared Diamond is back. Since Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse were published a generation ago, Diamond has been synonymous with sweeping explanations for complex historical problems.
His latest book, Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter? tackles another ambitious question:…
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By Arnaud Pelletier, Professeur de philosophie moderne, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Kant called Indigenous Peoples of the Americas ‘incapable of any culture.’ The source he cited tells a different story, questioning how we read classic authors.
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By Richard Hayman, Associate Professor & Digital Initiatives Librarian, Mount Royal University
Amanda Wakaruk, Acting Head, Open Publishing Services, University of Alberta
Bryn Williams-Jones, Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, École de santé publique, Université de Montréal
Stefanie Haustein, Professor of Information Science, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Ending paywalls for Canadian research is a public win. But until funders cap commercial publishing fees, taxpayer money will keep fuelling publisher profits.
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By Kathryn Harrison, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Alice Lépissier, Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chloé Boutron, PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of British Columbia
Erick Lachapelle, Associate professor, Département de science politique, Université de Montréal
Matto Mildenberger, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
New research suggests Canadian opposition to the carbon tax was based on misinformation, partisan politics and serious misconceptions about how much it was costing them at the pumps.
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By Bhavini Gohel, Clinical Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Tatsiana Demarco, Physician, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary
How the ‘super’ El Niño could trigger a polycrisis: interconnected failures that neither the energy system nor the health-care system can prepare for alone.
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By Umaima Miraj, PhD Candidate of Sociology with a Collaborative Specialization in Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
The ‘tears of womenfolk’ in Punjab became the biggest hurdle to military recruitment by December 1924, according to colonial officials.
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