By Ghazaal Habibyar, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international community’s response has fallen so short.
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By Lorinda Cramer, Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
Hooded garments are nothing new – we’ve even got hoodies that date back to the Iron Age. But how did the modern garment come to be everywhere?
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By Isabella Podwinski, Social Media Producer, The Conversation
While their antics might make us pay attention to election campaigns, how did we end up with joke candidates as part of our political culture?
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By Mei Dong, Professor in Economics, The University of Melbourne
Macquarie is among dozens of smaller lenders – but not yet the biggest four – to start offering slightly lower interest rates, as banks compete for fewer customers.
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By Jordan Zalis, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, University of Guelph
Alexander Castleton, Associate Professor of Sociology and Academic Director of the Politics, Philosophy and Economics Program, University of Montevideo; Carleton University
An institution that belongs to everyone and to no one is a fragile thing. It survives on a shared conviction that some goods are not for sale and belong to the community.
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By Regan E. Dunn, Associate Curator at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum; Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Understanding what happened in these forests 56 million years ago may help humanity recognize similar thresholds before we cross them again, the lead author of a new study writes.
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By Hoani Smith, Lecturer in Sport Management and Sport Science, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Conrad Goodhew, Assistant Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury
Online wellness trends claim saunas and cold plunges can boost male fertility. The evidence tells a more nuanced story – and some claims don’t stack up.
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By Intifar Chowdhury, Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
In our age of ‘hyperpolitics’, what does meaningful change look like? Anton Jäger’s buzzy new book has some answers – but could go harder on neoliberalism.
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By Jessa Rogers, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne
The Coalition is signalling it wants to see more disadvantaged Aboriginal students go to private schools.
In a recent speech outlining his approach to education, opposition spokesperson for Indigenous Australians, Julian Leeser, said he wants to see “transformation through school education”.
As part of this, he pointed out how the retention rate of Indigenous students who go on to Year 12 is far higher in private schools than in government schools.
In separate comments…
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By Bill Corcoran, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
Allison Kealy, Director, Innovative Planet Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
Arnan Mitchell, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science, RMIT University
Luke H. Broadley, Research Assistant, Electronic Engineering, RMIT University
Earlier this week, Bevan Slattery, the chief executive of subsea cable company SubCo, announced that two cables had experienced faults over the weekend. He deemed it a “concerning development” because these “submarine cables are the digital lifeblood of our nation”.
Slattery called on federal police to investigate…
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