By Marta Yebra, Director, Bushfire Resaerch Centre of Excellence, Australian National University
As Australia faces longer, more erratic fire seasons, tools like this may prove essential for staying one step ahead of the flames.
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By Di Johnson, Senior Lecturer, Finance and Financial Planning, Griffith University
A growing number of Australians are self-managing their superannuation. A new report suggests some may be getting advice that’s not in their best interest.
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By Josephine Wright, Senior Research Fellow,, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
Susan Woods, Associate Professor, GESA Bushell Research Fellow, University of Adelaide and Principal Research Fellow, Precision Cancer Medicine, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
Bacteria are being used to target tumours, enhance chemotherapy and deliver cancer drugs. Here’s where the science is up to.
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By Jill Vaughan, Senior Lecturer, Monash University
Josef Noel Tye, Director Indigenous Innovation and Experience Programs, Monash University
Northern Irish hip hop trio Kneecap have been making waves, not just as musicians, but as language activists who rap in both English and their native Irish. In Belfast’s Gaeltacht Quarter, Irish is a living language. It is also a political statement – a form of resistance against British cultural dominance.
Kneecap’s music is having a big impact, particularly on young Irish people. While language study in Northern Ireland is declining…
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
The reality of opioid therapy, kindness for fellow humans and criticism for a piece on COP30: and edited selection of your views.
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By Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
With a bold reform agenda and occasional administrative chaos, Whitlam’s three-year government had, and continues to have, a profound effect on Australian life.
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By Amanda Dunn, Politics + Society Editor, The Conversation
Matt Garrow, Editorial Web Developer, The Conversation
As prime minister, Whitlam changed the country in profound ways. 10 experts assess how the prime ministers since shape up as agents of change - for better or worse.
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By Katrina Barclay, Executive Manager, Telfer Family Enterprise Legacy Institute (FELI), L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Peter Jaskiewicz, Professor and University Research Chair in Enduring Entrepreneurship, Academic Director Family Enterprise Legacy Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Like previous federal budgets, the recently released Budget 2025 fails to acknowledge a pressing generational shift for Canada’s economy: the succession crisis facing most Canadian family-owned businesses.
Over the next decade, 60 per cent of family enterprises will change hands — if those ownership transfers happen at all.
When…
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By Eric Story, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of History, Western University
After the First World War, two war amputees raised the profile of disabled veterans and challenged ableism as they trekked 2,000 kilometres from Calgary to Thunder Bay.
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By Karen Bird, Professor of Political Science, McMaster University
Recent Māori ward plebiscites indicate that while institutional reforms for Indigenous representation are vital, meaningful change isn’t possible without broad public understanding and trust.
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