By Deborah Te Kawa, PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
Barbara Allen, Associate Professor in Public Management and Policy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The public sector is being encouraged to embrace AI. But can the largely voluntary governance framework we’re building to manage the technology be trusted to work?
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By Catharine Fleming, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Western Sydney University
Teenagers often love chocolate bars and hot chips. A paediatric nutritionist explains how we can help them make healthier choices.
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By Kaveh Khalilpour, Associate Professor in Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney
Tallat Jabeen, AI and Data Analytics Researcher, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Electric vehicles promise cleaner transport. But unlike rooftop solar, which is spread through communities, wealthier Australian households are the ones buying EVs.
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By Erin Harper, Lecturer, School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Marianne Fenech, Professor, Early Childhood Governance, University of Sydney
Ahead of the 2026 federal budget, Education Minister Jason has announced plans for a new national commission for early education and care.
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By Jane Dahlstrom, Pathologist and Emeritus Professor, ANU School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University
Warning: this article is about stillbirth and its investigations, including autopsies and related procedures.
About six babies are stillborn in Australia every day – an incredibly difficult time for families.
Understandably, they want to know why their baby died. But for one in three stillbirths in Australia, we don’t have a reason, often…
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By Victoria Lorrimar, Director, Centre for Technology and Human Futures, University of Notre Dame Australia
Tim Smartt, Senior Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia
Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI).
Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, the system created a leaderboard ranked by the number of tokens each user was exchanging with AI models, with leaders given titles such as “Token Legend”. (Tokens are tiny chunks of…
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By Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
Inland Rail was meant to take 200,000 trucks a year off our roads – but it’s now been cut in half. Why is rail freight shortchanged compared to roads and city rail?
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By Brigid Magner, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
Fiona Wright’s genre-defying social satire will ring bells for people who are locked out of the housing market, and those who care about inequality.
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By Kevin Dew, Professor of Sociology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Chris Cunningham, Professor of Māori and Public Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Elizabeth Dennett, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Otago
Kerry Chamberlain, Professor of Social and Health Psychology, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Richard Egan, Associate Professor of Health Promotion, University of Otago
Doctors have to balance finite resources and uncertain evidence to decide who should get treatments. The decisions are not always based on need or clinical benefits.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
On politicians whose only policy is stirring up hate, and the case for taxing gas exports: an edited selection of your views.
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