By Benjamin Miller, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
Dashiell Moore, DECRA Fellow in English and Writing, University of Sydney
Novelist Alexis Wright has described Lionel Fogarty as Aboriginal literature’s ‘poet laureate’. His was a life of energy, art, yarning, poetry and politics.
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By Sebastian Maslow, Associate Professor, International Relations, Contemporary Japanese Politics & Society, University of Tokyo
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) got a historic landslide victory in last week’s parliamentary elections.
This marks the first time since its founding in 1955 that the conservative LDP controls a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house. If necessary, Takaichi’s cabinet could also overrule any opposition in the upper house of the Diet (Japan’s parliament), where her coalition still lacks a majority.
Given this, Takaichi now has a massive mandate to push her agenda. This includes boosting defence spending, strengthening…
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By Evelyn Parr, Research Fellow in Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University
Intermittent fasting has become a buzzword in nutrition circles, with many people looking to it as a way to lose weight or improve their health.
But new research from the Cochrane Collaboration shows intermittent fasting is no more effective for weight loss than receiving traditional dietary advice or even doing nothing at all.
In this international review, researchers assessed 22 studies involving 1,995 adults who were classified as overweight (with a body mass index…
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By James J Bell, Professor of Marine Biology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Christopher Cornwall, Lecturer in Marine Biology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Ohad Peleg, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biological Sciences, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Sewage spills are often seen as short-term public health crises. But the ecological impacts can be lasting, especially if combined with marine heatwaves and storms.
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By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, Adelaide University
Robert Duvall, who has died at the age of 95, will be remembered for a glittering career that saw him appear in two of American cinema’s most iconic films. But let’s not forget the other hundred or so more across a career spanning six decades.
Duvall was as comfortable in disposable fare like Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) as he was in thoughtful dramas such as True Confessions (1983).
In 1990 alone, he played Tom Cruise’s mentor in the NASCAR epic Days of Thunder followed by The Commander in Volker Schlöndorff’s…
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By Beyhan Farhadi, Assistant Professor, Educational Policy and Equity, University of Toronto
When tragedies occur, governments and schools face intense pressure to act, and urgency can produce policies that signal control without a plan to evaluate their impact.
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By Ian A. Wright, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
Katherine Warwick, PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University
There’s little worse as a pool lifeguard than hearing the words “code brown” come through your radio. For swimmers on a hot day, there’s also little worse than being told to immediately get out of the water because there’s poo floating in the pool.
During hot summers, public pools in Australia are often crowded with families and children. The risk of “code brown” incidents at your local pool is probably substantial.
So how is a public pool cleaned after poo or vomit accidentally ends up in the water – and how long before it’s safe to get back in?
The short…
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By Angela Schneider, Director, International Centre for Olympic Studies, Western University
Alan C Oldham, PhD Student, International Centre for Olympic Studies, Western University
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortona d'Ampezzo in northern Italy feature eight new medal events and one new official sport: ski mountaineering, or “skimo.”
It’s an endurance sport in which athletes ascend mountains on skis fitted with climbing skins, carry their skis over sections too steep to skin and then descend on alpine terrain. In total, 36 skimo athletes will compete at the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio.
The…
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By Scott Duncan, Professor of Population Health, Auckland University of Technology
Melody Smith, Professor of Health Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Play is often treated as something we grow out of, yet evidence shows playfulness remains vital for adult wellbeing. Rethinking our spaces could help bring it back.
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By Hal Pawson, Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW Sydney
Social housing is being built at the fastest pace since the 1980s. But we are still leaving hundreds of thousands of Australians waiting for a home.
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