By Pauline McDonagh Hull, PhD Candidate, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Amity Quinn, Assistant Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Erin A. Brennand, Gynecologist & Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Canada can significantly improve women’s health, in both the short- and long-term, by focusing on five attainable and affordable immediate actions.
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By Theodore E. (Ted) Zorn, Professor of Organisational Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
As democratic socialists make inroads into mainstream US politics, one loaded word is doing a lot of work for their ideological opponents.
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By John Woinarski, Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
As a lethal bird flu spreads in Australian wildlife, it can be easy to think nothing can stop it. That’s an error – much can be done.
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By Saia Nahir Bartes, PhD Student and Research Teaching Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Australia is now confronting an outbreak of a deadly bird flu strain.
As of Monday, the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus had been detected in 78 wild birds across mainland Australia. Until now, there had been no evidence of a large-scale outbreak.
But authorities have confirmed the…
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By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
These Miles Franklin shortlisted novels offer six very different answers to the question: what can Australian fiction be – and do?
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By Sally Larsen, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of New England
National NAPLAN results for 2026 are released today. This is the test of Australian students’ literacy and numeracy skills in years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (which runs the test) has pointed to a “concerning” drop in Year 3 numeracy. It has hailed “signs of improvement” for other year levels in maths. It also reports that average reading scores in Years 5, 7 and 9 are lower than in 2025.
But the most remarkable takeaway from this year’s NAPLAN? None of…
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By Mirella Atherton, Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle
Julia Cook, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Newcastle
When money is coming from the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, a recent study found parents and adult children can have very different assumptions – which they rarely discuss.
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By Jemma Briscoe, Adjunct Lecturer in Finance, University of Technology Sydney
Accessing care often means long wait lists, complex forms and significant out-of-pocket costs. So start planning early, before a crisis hits.
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By Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell, Post-doctoral researcher in Palaeobiology, Flinders University
Julien Kimmig, Head of Palaeontology Division at the Natural History Museum Karlsruhe
As all children learn, everyone poos. But when did this begin?
And what evolutionary and environmental changes accompanied the dawn of dung? Going further, is the evolution of excrement the reason we exist?
Our new research suggests the evolution of fecal matter helped fuel one of the most important events in the history of life on Earth: the Cambrian explosion.
And poo really might be the reason animals were such…
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By Susan Kerrigan, Professor Film and Television, Swinburne University of Technology
In one scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller Vertigo, lead character John “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart) is shown following Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak) up a bell tower.
Scottie is afraid of heights. So when he briefly stops and glances down, he experiences a wave of vertigo. The stairwell distorts, seemingly stretching into the distance below him – a potent reflection of his dizzy and panicked state.
This scene is the first ever example of the “dolly zoom”, a dynamic visual technique achieved through camera movement and a zoom lens.
Also known as…
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