By Stuart Phillips, Professor, Kinesiology, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health, McMaster University
Research has moved past the question of whether we can live longer. The new question is whether we’re willing to invest — seriously, equitably and early — in the things that will help us live better.
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By Kristen Sobeck, Lecturer in Economics, University of Canberra
Should billionaires pay more tax? Californians will vote for whether to introduce a billionaire tax in November. In the United Kingdom, economists recently called for a net wealth tax on assets over £10 million (about A$19 million).
Australia may seem absent from the debate, but it shouldn’t be. The same…
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By Daniel Casey, Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, Australian Catholic University
The latest Newspoll, published last night, showed on federal voting intentions, Labor and One Nation lost 1 percentage point to both sit on 29%, while the Coalition also dropped 1 percentage point to 18%. All of these polls are dutifully reported not just by the media outlet that pays for them, but by other media too.
Yet, we are just over one year out from the most recent federal election, and two years away from the next. Given this, the way the recent rise in One Nation’s polling in particular has shaped political debate, do we have too many polls?
Voice of the people…
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By Ruth McHugh-Dillon, Deputy Health Editor, The Conversation
Shingles (herpes zoster) is often thought of as an older person’s disease.
But in the past two decades, we’ve seen a rise in reported cases of this viral disease – which causes a painful, blistering rash and nerve pain – among younger adults aged 25–49.
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By Bricklyn Priebe, Associate Lecturer in Criminology and Justice, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
In recent weeks we’ve seen more reports of alleged child sexual abuse involving a Sydney childcare worker. There have also been reports of children leaving a Melbourne kindergarten unnoticed and getting onto a busy street.
Stories like these have sadly become a regular feature of the news cycle. And have once…
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By Melissa Lee, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Monash University
AI-powered breakthroughs are raising big questions about how to do mathematics – and why we do it in the first place.
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By Claire Ferguson, Associate Lecturer in Classics, University of Tasmania
Lesbians were misrepresented and parodied by men in ancient Roman texts. Yet these depictions can reveal a lot if we read between the lines.
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By Constantin Colonescu, Professor of Economics, MacEwan University
Secession, the formal withdrawal of a region from a country, involves trade-offs. Preliminary research shows those trade-offs would be significant for Albertans.
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By Dirk Steinke, Research Scientist, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph
When we lose insect species without even knowing they existed, we will never know where they lived, what they looked like, how they interacted with other species or the impact they had on ecosystems.
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By Johanathan Woodworth, Assistant Professor, Education, Mount Saint Vincent University
AI policy guiding university learning and teacher education must address how technology changes the social and emotional conditions of teaching and learning.
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