By Caroline Swee Lin Tan, Associate Professor in Fashion Entrepreneurship, RMIT University
Saniyat Islam, Associate Professor, Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University
Fashion brands promise sustainability. But a formal investigation into Lululemon reveals a deeper problem: green claims that no one is required to prove.
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By Simon Copland, Honorary Fellow in Sociology, Australian National University
When you break the first rule of Fight Club, you find warring takes. While Chuck Palahniuk wrote it as satire, some take its narrator far too seriously.
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By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
Pope Leo’s papacy is still a work in progress, but the American-born pontiff has so far emphasised unity in a fractured church – and world.
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By Hassan Al Razi, PhD Student, School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Chimps build a new nest every night – but how they choose what to build and where is surprisingly complicated.
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By James K. Rowe, Associate Professor of Political Ecology, University of Victoria
While those around Donald Trump are trying to spin the latest alleged attempt on his life as more evidence of his super humanity, the U.S. president is looking more mortal by the day.
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By Christy Zhou Koval, Professor, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario
Susie Lee, Assistant Professor, International Business School Suzhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Yonghoon Lee, Yonghoon Lee Associate Professor with Tenure and Gina and Anthony Bahr ’91 Professorship in Business, Texas A&M University
You’ve heard of the glass ceiling. New research has identified another barrier: the glass wall, which punishes women for the kind of lateral career moves that boost men’s prospects.
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By Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury
In the microbudget horror comedy The Weed Eaters, a group of bumbling townies get high on someone else’s supply with grisly and ridiculous consequences.
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By Michael Rehm, Associate Professor in Property, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Small-scale landlords are retreating as costs rise and confidence weakens. Their exit could disrupt credit flows – but also ease pressure in the housing market.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. © 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images Burkina Faso’s Council of Ministers adopted a draft law on April 24 to create a 100,000-strong military reserve by the end of 2026. Defense Minister Célestin Simporé framed the move as a way to rapidly mobilize citizens to respond to security threats and “embed Patriotic Defense within a logic of citizen participation.”On face value, adding tens of thousands of soldiers would appear to bolster…
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By Laura
In the AI race, much of Sub-Saharan Africa faces computer power outages several times a day and internet that costs over a quarter of a monthly salary, hindering AI access.
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