By Rand Low, Associate Professor of Quantitative Finance, Bond University
It’s famously the asset investors flock to in a financial storm. But over the past few months, the gold price has been on a roller coaster ride – and now plummeted.
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By Margaret Murray, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Swinburne University of Technology
Cheap, quick and simple, this dish overcomes many barriers young people say stop them cooking at home. But what about the nutritional content?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People wave Japanese flag in Tokyo, January 27, 2026. © 2026 Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, said on March 17 that they would present a law forbidding the desecration of the national flag during the ongoing Diet session.Currently, Japan’s penal code only makes it a criminal offense to damage foreign flags, which the two parties described in their October coalition agreement as a “contradiction” that they pledged to “correct.”For Takaichi, passing…
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By Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Continuing his war against what he calls “fake news”, the US president is hobbling journalists and media outlets he considers to be hostile to him.
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By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the United States has ruled.
The Los Angeles jury took nearly nine days to reach its verdict in the landmark case brought by a woman known as KGM against social media platforms. It awarded US$3 million (A$4.3 million) in damages, with Meta (owner of Instagram) being 70% responsible and Google (owner of YouTube) 30%. The jury later…
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By Amanda George, Assistant Professor (Psychology), University of Canberra
Jeroen van Boxtel, Associate Professor, Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Canberra
Marjan Aslan, Lecturer in Marketing and Service Management, University of Canberra
Ram Subramanian, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science & Technology, University of Canberra
Roads and cars have safety benchmarks. But once a driver gets a licence, they don’t get objective feedback about their road use.
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By Susan Baidawi, Associate professor, Monash University
Across Australia, there is growing concern about young people not offending independently but allegedly being recruited, coerced and manipulated by adults into committing crime. Recent examples include:
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By Kimberley Reis, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Griffith University
This shock to our food system is not the first, and won’t be the last. A focus on band-aid solutions that prop up the current system undermines long-term resilience.
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By James L. Flexner, Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology and Heritage, University of Sydney
The Mangareva Islands are about 1,600 kilometres southeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia. They get their name (which means “floating mountains”) from the way the sea spray breaking on the surrounding coral atolls, or motu, causes the ancient volcanic peaks to appear as if they are floating above the waves.
Today, the islands are home to about 2,000 people, many of whom work on the pearl farms in the idyllic turquoise lagoon. Dotted across the islands are the remains of dozens of remarkable pieces of architecture: homes built from coral.
As part of a larger project studying…
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By Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Continuing his war against what he calls “fake news”, the US president is hobbling journalists and media outlets he considers to be hostile to him.
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