By Gemma Ware, Head of Audio, The Conversation UK, The Conversation
A few days before Christmas 2025, a secretive online activist group called Anna’s Archive said it had…
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By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Bret Easton Ellis’ books seem perfect for the screen, but there’s an art to translating books like The Shards and American Psycho. Which adaptations worked – or didn’t?
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By Eric Windholz, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
An AFL player with concussion history signed a secret waiver to protect his club from future court action. It’s a sign something has to change.
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By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
The history of electoral reform in NZ is full of policy surprises. But the prime minister’s latest announcement still makes little political sense.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People read newspapers and magazines on a street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 7, 2020. © 2020 Samuel Habtab/AP Photo Ethiopian authorities are intensifying their assault on media freedom in the country.On August 1, unidentified security personnel detained Yonas Kedir, the editor-in-chief of the Addis Standard, and questioned him for 24 hours about the independent news outlet’s reporting before releasing him, according to a statement by the outlet. The following day, security and intelligence officials raided the outlet’s offices, damaging and confiscating equipment.The…
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By Ashley Bosa, Postdoctoral Researcher, The Resilience Institute at Boise State University, Boise State University
Evacuations in the face of a wildfire, hurricane or other disaster are stressful and can take more time than you might expect. Here’s why practice helps and what to think about.
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By Miranda Green-Barteet, Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and English and Writing Studies, Western University
Melanie Fishbane, PhD Candidate, English and Writing Studies, Western University
This article contains spoilers for the Netflix series ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and references to racist historical depictions of Indigenous people and African Americans.
Netflix recently released Season 1 of Little House on the Prairie. Seen by many to be a reboot of the NBC TV series…
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By Cécile L'Hermitte, Senior Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, University of Waikato
New research reveals a magnitude 8.5 earthquake is likely to trigger a cascade of problems for NZ’s freight networks. But how many are avoidable?
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By Matteo Vergani, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Tackling Hate Lab, Deakin University
Fiona Allison, Associate Professor, Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney
A new study examining online hate during the so-called March for Australia rallies found white supremacy was rife. But there are patterns we can see to help stop it.
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By Leonora Risse, Associate Professor in Economics, Queensland University of Technology
Elise Stephenson, Deputy Director, Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Australian National University
As the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) sweep across the labour force, it’s understandable for workers to be concerned about which jobs are most at risk of being replaced by technology.
Women make up the majority of workers in the care sector where human interactions matter most – child care, nursing and aged care. So, policymakers might reasonably presume that women’s jobs are largely shielded from the impacts of AI.
But our analysis of recent data from government agency Jobs…
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