By Kelly Sheldrick, Bat Ecologist & PhD candidate, Murdoch University
Rochelle Steven, Lecturer, Environmental Management, Murdoch University
Trish Fleming, Professor, Wildlife Conservation, Murdoch University
What’s that chirping sound coming through the detector? Did you feel something whiz past?
Those are just some ways people react when they encounter microbats for the first time. Microbats are small, mostly nocturnal mammals that use ultrasonic sounds to navigate and hunt at night. They do this through echolocation, producing calls and listening to the echoes that bounce back from objects and prey.
Their nocturnal habits, small size and fast flight can make them uniquely difficult to find…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Pauline Hanson has accused Anthony Albanese of “grubby dealings” in regard to an extra staffer to One Nation’s David Farley.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Lawyer and junta critic Mountaga Tall, Mali, 2025. © Private Six months after their abductions, Mountaga Tall, an outspoken critic of Mali’s junta, and his son, Cheick Mamadou Tall, remain missing, their fate unknown, and the Malian authorities silent. Every day that passes without news raises fears for their safety and deepens their family’s anguish.Unidentified gunmen abducted Tall in Bamako, Mali’s capital, on May 2. Tall’s son went missing on May 16 after receiving a call informing him that he could deliver belongings to his father, who was reportedly…
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By John Hawkins, Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
A Grateful Son, the first book by Josh Frydenberg – former federal treasurer, former deputy leader of the Liberal Party, and former member for Kooyong – might be regarded as one of the longest job applications in history.
He makes it clear that he has an alternative vision to the current Liberal leadership for how to return the party to power. This is most explicit in the concluding chapter, titled “a better way”. But it is also evident from comments scattered throughout.
Review:…
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By Arlie Loughnan, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Sydney
Natalia Antolak-Saper, Associate professor, Monash University
Erin Patterson has lost her appeal against her 2025 convictions on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. She will now spend the rest of her life in prison, after the Victorian Court of Appeal also upheld a prosecution appeal and removed the 33-year non-parole period set by the trial judge.
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By Chris Comerford, Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media, University of Wollongong
Passing away this week at 86, Stewart will be remembered as actor, dramaturge, Shakespearean exemplar, mutant professor, and distinguished Starfleet captain.
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By Dean Aszkielowicz, Senior Lecturer in History and Politics, Murdoch University
Paul Taucher, Lecturer in History, Fellow Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University
An inquiry into the culture and command of Australian special forces in Afghanistan could be a moment of reckoning for the country’s military leadership.
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By Vanessa Campbell, Associate Lecturer in Public Relations, Western Sydney University
Bianca Albanese, Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia
For most of the year, parents teach children not to talk to strangers, not to accept things from people they don’t know, and to take care when crossing the road.
Then Halloween arrives, and suddenly we’re knocking on strangers’ doors, accepting handfuls of lollies from them and wandering the streets after dark.
How can you help your children have a safe Halloween?
Are there more injuries at Halloween?
US data…
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By Justin A. Welbergen, Professor of Animal Ecology, Western Sydney University
Jessica Meade, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Movement Ecology, Western Sydney University
Wildlife carers have been deluged with distressed flying-foxes. It’s yet another crisis for these vital animals. Is it time to do better?
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By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
Why would fans of a Japanese baseball team throw a statue of Colonel Sanders into a local canal? Welcome to the world of sporting curses.
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