By Jacynta Krakouer, Aboriginal Enterprise Fellow, Australian Centre for Child Protection, Adelaide University
Renna Gayde, Research Assistant, Australian Centre for Child Protection, Adelaide University
Media has reported up to 15 children have been living unattended in a squalid house in WA’s Pilbara. While the danger didn’t start overnight, the fixes can.
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By Niraj Meisuria, PhD Candidate, Disease Ecology Lab and Global Ecology Lab, University of Sydney
Rhys Cairncross, PhD Candidate, Global Ecology Lab, University of Sydney
Thomas Newsome, Associate Professor, Global Ecology, University of Sydney
A push is underway to better protect dingoes in NSW National Parks. This inquiry will grapple with how to balance conservation and farmer concerns.
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By Ruth Richards, Lecturer (Media), RMIT University
The latest Looney Tunes feature film, Coyote vs. Acme, sees Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme corporation after years of having his various plots and schemes to catch the Road Runner foiled thanks to their defective products.
Like Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Space Jam (1996), Coyote vs. Acme is a hybrid animation and live-action production, as animated characters interact with the human characters and non-animated worlds.
Films using a mixture of animated and live-action elements have been around since the earliest days of animated cinema.
An animation pioneer…
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By Emily Ross, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, The University of Queensland
Both sides of politics are saying the Australian school curriculum needs to change.
The Coalition has proposed changes it says would strengthen the teaching of Western values and Australia’s civic traditions. It also wants to make Indigenous history and culture, and sustainability discrete subjects, instead of topics taught right across the curriculum.
When looking at falling test results, Coalition…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
While Albanese is in New York, the US embassy in Canberra – which now has its Trump man in residence – attacked the government’s Digital Duty of Care plans.
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By Charlotte Farrell, Lecturer, Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
Female employees of a tech company get stuck in an elevator in Eloise Snape’s timely play about AI, corporate culture and the patriarchy
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By Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University
Amid the tumult over US President Donald Trump’s latest assault on press freedom, it’s easy to lose sight of what exactly journalism is and why, when done well, it carries real weight.
Good journalism provides information that those in positions of power don’t want the public to know.
Yes, it’s important to recognise that beyond the president’s habitual bully-bluster schtick, the barring of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House violates the first amendment of the Constitution protecting press freedom. So outrageous is the ban that the three news outlets are suing…
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By William Partlett, Associate Professor of Public Law, The University of Melbourne
Wednesday’s opening hearing was short and technical. But the commission signalled it is willing to act fast and extend its inquiry to the very top.
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By Charlotte Markowitsch, PhD Candidate in Popular Music Studies, RMIT University
“I’m not a nice boy and I never was,” Angry Anderson sang on Rose Tattoo’s 1978 debut album. It was an effective mission statement for one of Australian rock’s most recognisable vocalists.
Gary “Angry” Anderson became a well known figure in Australian popular culture. As frontman of Rose Tattoo, he was central to the hard edged Oz Rock tradition that grew from Australia’s pub circuit. In my research as a rock sociologist, Anderson is a key reference point for how listeners define Australian rock and its values.
Much of that influence came from how successfully Anderson…
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By Alison Garden, Senior Lecturer and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast
The following story is runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026, a competition run in partnership with Faber and Curtis Brown. Read more about the competition here.
A woman is handing out paper cups of squash and flat lemonade at the back of a parochial hall in Belfast. This woman – I’ll call her Charlotte* – is there with her husband, helping out at a disco for the Catholic Church’s teenage congregants.…
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