By Robin Gauld, Executive Dean, Bond Business School, Bond University
Voters should look for long-term health policies that address workforce shortages, improve access to primary and specialist care, and include early intervention.
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By Donald Heflin, Executive Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
The United States is down one more ambassador. On Oct. 13, 2026, it emerged that President Donald Trump had asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, a MAGA loyalist and ex-fiancée of Trump’s son Donald Jr., to resign her position as U.S. ambassador to Greece, a NATO ally. It follows allegations that the Trump adviser turned diplomat pushed for a Republican donor to pay off her six-figure American Express…
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By Philippe Le Billon, Professor, Geography Department and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
Rashid Sumaila, Director & Professor, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia
Orbital space management organizations could help ensure that future generations live with stars above their heads, rather than constellations of debris.
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By Ruipeng Liu, Senior Lecturer in finance, Deakin University
Sagarika Mishra, Associate professor, Deakin University
What’s not clear is how much of this AI boom is being driven by real, end-user demand — and how much might be a bubble.
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By Megan Willis, Associate Professor, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
Open a newspaper on any given day and you’re likely to read about yet another case of intimate partner violence – a form of domestic violence between current or former partners.
Less visible is what happens to the victims who survive it. For them, the mental health consequences can persist long after the relationship ends.
Our new research, published in the Journal of Family Violence, found mental disorders were twice as common…
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By Nancy Cushing, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
Pigs, camels, rabbits and many others were brought to Australia deliberately as valuable species. But we see them very differently once they become free-roaming.
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By Trevor Mazzucchelli, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Curtin University
When parents have different approaches to raising children, who’s right? Research suggests the answer matters less than how they handle their disagreements.
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By Sarah Austin, Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
The second annual Shopfront Youth-Led Conference was designed by young people for young people. They wanted to talk about ‘redesigning success’.
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By Oscar Davis, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and History, Bond University
Plato’s dialogues show that learning takes place through the to-and-fro of reflective thought – much of learning is finding out what we don’t know.
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By Kate Marie Quigley, DECRA Research Fellow in molecular ecology, James Cook University
Most kinds of coral spawn once a year. In an enormous multi-day event synchronised to specific phases of the moon, they release vast slicks of eggs and sperm into the ocean to be mixed together by the drifting currents.
Imagine hundreds of thousands of Olympic swimming pools filled with tiny pinkish spheres, all dumped into the sea at once.
In new research published in Ecology and Evolution, my colleague and I have for the first time…
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