By Stephanie Wescott, Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences, Monash University
Jane Gilmore, PhD Candidate, Monash University
Parents have an important role to play in educating children about consent and relationships. But it can be hard to know where to begin.
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By Elizabeth Morton, Senior Lecturer, Curtin Law School, Curtin University
Lisa Greig, Lecturer in Taxation Law for accountants, The University of Melbourne
When do you need to declare online sales income to the tax office? The answer can be as messy as your wardrobe – so two experts explain what you need to know.
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By Michelle Tye, Associate Professor and Program Head of Youth Suicide Prevention, the Black Dog Institute, UNSW
Having larger in-person networks appeared to protect young people against developing severe depression symptoms. But large online networks had the opposite effect.
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By Monique Rooney, Senior lecturer in literature, Australian National University
Ruth Park’s classic asks us to inhabit the past as a real place – just as 14-year-old Abigail does, when she’s transported from 1980 to 1873, in Sydney’s The Rocks.
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By Bethany Rose Dawson, PhD Candidate, School of Biological Sciences, Adelaide University
Camille Mellin, Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Adelaide University
Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, Adelaide University
This is very bad news for human health but also for the health of other animals in the food web.
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By Radhika Raghav, Teaching Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Otago; Swinburne University of Technology
Even though he wasn’t a woman, Bal Gandharva’s vision of the ‘traditional wife’ was given supremacy over every other form of womanhood.
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By Andreina Seijas, Lecturer, Urban School, Sciences Po
Summer in Europe is normally cause for celebration. Not this one, however, which will rank as one of the hottest on record. Wildfires have broken out everywhere from France to Greece, while intense drought has turned the grass in London’s famous Hyde Park brown. This week, much of Europe is sweltering through yet…
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By Andrew Battisti, Research Fellow in Astrophysics at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia; Australian National University
In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed something strange: the distant reaches of the universe are filled with “little red dots” that astronomers still can’t quite explain.
But a new paper I coauthored, published today in Nature Astronomy, might have found the key to understanding their nature.
It turns out…
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By Ashika Niraula, Senior Research Associate, Global Migration Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University
Sagar Raj Sharma, Visiting Researcher, Global Migration Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University
Youth-led protest movements across Asia have exposed underlying anger at corruption and blocked opportunity. But so far, only Nepal has managed to convert that anger into a transfer of governing power.
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By Christopher Cotton, Professor, Jarislowsky-Deutsch Chair in Economic & Financial Policy, and Director of the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Department of Economics, Queen's University, Ontario
Science works through a process of revision. As consumers, we must learn how to evaluate how mature evidence is, and always remain flexible to new findings.
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