By Triss Niemi, Casual Academic, College of Business, Creative Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Flinders University
Anthony (Anthony Nicola) is an anxious, grief-stricken mess mourning the loss of his partner, Michael, who died from AIDS. Over the weekend of his partner’s funeral, Anthony must play host to Michael’s closest and cattiest friends, Justin (Paul Capsis) and Jamie (Paul Reichstein).
All the while, Anthony is cruised by a spectral Leather Daddy (Chris Asimos) determined to keep him bound to his grief.
I would almost dare to call Anthony Nocera’s Log Boy a gesture towards a post-AIDS play. But this production, directed by Riley Spadaro, knows just as well as many of us do that,…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The government has announced it had “stepped in” to delay the ATO’s ban on credit card payments until June 30 next year.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ibrahim, a 5-year-old boy with autism, is held by his father in Idlib, Syria, June 2022. © © 2022 Human Rights Watch. As armed conflicts proliferate around the globe, World Mental Health Day is a reminder that the psychological toll stemming from hostilities result in mental health harms that have lasting effects on people’s lives. Insecurity, trauma, anxiety, and confusion are the norm for many who have endured armed conflict.Access to services is frequently inadequate—even though over a fifth of conflict-affected populations are estimated to experience…
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By Caitlyn Forster, Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
Millions of people worldwide watched on as the Sydney Olympics came to a close in 2000. Meanwhile, thousands of bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) were airborne, making their annual migration to the Australian Alps.
These bogong moths swarmed in such large numbers that the rain radars showed…
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By Marta Khomyn, Senior Lecturer, Finance and Data Analytics, Adelaide University
It was pitched to investors as “the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in a generation”.
Firmus Technologies – a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) data centres – planned to raise A$7 billion from investors on the Australian Securities Exchange later this month.
Just days ago, bankers working on the deal declared investor interest in the A$11-a-share offer was “well in excess” of what was needed to…
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By Melissa Lee, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Monash University
OpenAI released 722 new AI-generated mathematical papers at once – three have been retracted, and mathematicians are coming to grips with the rest.
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By Nina Hillenberg, Senior Lecturer, Design, Torrens University Australia
An Olympic emblem has to represent a city and a nation – while also engaging the rest of the world. How can one symbol do it all?
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By Kathryn Bowen, Director, Melbourne Climate Futures and Professor - Environment, Climate and Global Health at Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
Preparatory meetings for the United Nations’ annual climate summit are usually quiet affairs, focused on laying the political and technical groundwork for the main COP event. But this year felt very different.
I was at this week’s pre-COP31 gathering in Fiji for talks that were both harmonious and powerful. Pacific delegates were clearly frustrated at having to repeatedly retell their stories of climate change. But they were also generous in their wish for the world to engage with the reality they face.
Following a tussle for leadership…
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By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
Australian batters aren’t scoring runs like they used to. There are a few reasons why, but the answer isn’t obvious.
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By Joel Lexchin, Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
Alice Fabbri, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Bath
Barbara Mintzes, Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
Quinn Grundy, Associate Professor, Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
When you seek medical care, you hope that your doctor will present you with treatment options that are proven to be effective for your condition, that harms do not outweigh benefits and that recommended treatments are affordable and account for your personal situation.
But if your doctor has been influenced by messages, payments or gifts from drug companies, that is unlikely to be the case, as our team from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States found.
Pharmaceutical industry promotion is a global phenomenon. In the mid 2010s, companies in the U.S.…
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