By Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay
Interview with former Awami League Home Secretary Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who is currently exiled in India, on the recent Bangladesh general election, and the Awami League leadership’s ongoing legal challenges.
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By Kate Congreves, Associate Professor, Jarislowsky & BMO Research Chair in Regenerative Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan
Regenerative agriculture began as a grassroots movement led by farmers. It has been described in many different ways, but a common thread is a set of values.
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By Mark Alfano, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University
Michał Klincewicz, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Cognitive Science, Tilburg University
In early March, a week after the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the White House posted a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular movies, television series, video games and anime.
Iran and its sympathisers responded to the strikes by flooding social media with outdated war footage allegedly…
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By Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
Ray Wills, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia
The government’s response to the fuel crisis has been to reassure us normality will resume. Amid global uncertainty, that’s not enough.
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By Carolyn Heward, Senior lecturer, Clinical Psychology, James Cook University
The safeguards in place to protect research integrity are not keeping pace with the tools that can be used to circumvent them.
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By Helen Bird, Industry Fellow, Corporate Governance & Senior Lecturer, Swinburne Law School, Swinburne University of Technology
In the next two months, expect to see some big changes at the ASX. But there’s a lot more to do to tackle its ‘systemic, long-standing and deeply embedded’ problems.
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By Barbara Mintzes, Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
Betty Chaar, Pharmacist and Professor in Professional Ethics in Pharmacy, University of Sydney
Christine Mary Hallinan, Senior Research Fellow, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Christopher Rudge, Lecturer in Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
Wendy Lipworth, Professor of Bioethics, Macquarie University
We asked 5 experts if clinics should be allowed to prescribe medicinal cannabis if they have financial links to the supplier or dispenser. Here’s what they said.
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By Thomas J. Derrick, Gale Research Fellow in Ancient Glass and Material Culture, Macquarie University
Roman leader Julius Caesar is said to have kept a stock of it in the treasury. Ancient writer Pliny the Elder says Rome’s Emperor Nero owned the last stalk of it.
And some have suggested rampant extramarital sex in elite Roman circles led to demand outstripping supply, and it dying out altogether.
What is it?…
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By Seth Robinson, Lecturer, Professional Communications, Public Humanities & Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
Steve Toltz was shortlisted for the Booker for his rollicking debut. His new novel, A Rising of the Lights, suggests true solace lies in human connection.
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By Scott L. Montgomery, Lecturer in International Studies, University of Washington
For sheer abundance and ease of production of oil and natural gas, it simply doesn’t get any better than the Persian Gulf region.
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