By Jane Torr, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Education, Macquarie University
Try funny voices, point out objects you know and don’t worry if your child would rather just sit on the book.
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By Ben Eltham, Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
Justin O'Connor, Professor of Cultural Economy, Adelaide University
Tully Barnett, Associate Professor, Cultural Policy and Creative Industries, Adelaide University
Culture is a vital part of many people’s lives. This is the view afforded by the latest data on cultural participation from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Creative Australia and Screen Australia.
The…
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By Darryl Jones, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University
Backyard bird feeding is one of our country’s most popular pastimes. Research reveals about half of Australian households feed wild birds, with many people doing so daily.
However, this practice could act as a superspreader event – where a disease infects an unusually high number of people or animals – of the H5N1 virus. This deadly…
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By Bernard Doherty, Associate Head, School of Theology, Charles Sturt University
While the sect has some very conservative views and has been politically involved in recent years, its political impact has been limited.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A 17-year-old boy recruited by the 33rd Front of the EMBF, a dissident group of the demobilized FARC, operating in Colombia’s Catatumbo region near the Venezuelan border. © 2026 Federico Ríos Escobar Child recruitment by armed groups has risen sharply in Colombia in recent years; exploiting poverty, social exclusion, and lack of education to lure children with promises of money, power, and prestige, and increasingly using social media to do so.Colombia has established a range of policies and strategies to prevent child recruitment, and protect and rescue children,…
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By Matt Savage, PhD Candidate and Lecturer in Physiotherapy, La Trobe University
Adam Culvenor, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow in Sport and Exercise Medicine, La Trobe University
Many of these exercises deliberately bend the knee through a larger range of motion, boosting the work done by your thigh muscles. But they may not be for everyone.
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By Yongyi Peng, PhD Candidate in Environmental Microbiology, Monash University
Ry Holland, Research Fellow in Microbial Ecology, Monash University
Existence is hard in the frozen Antarctic soil – and microbes use ‘horizontal gene transfer’ to share the tools that keep them alive.
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By Frisa Irawan Ginting, Dosen Ilmu Tanah dan Sumber Daya Lahan, Universitas Andalas
Dian Fiantis, Professor of Soil Science, Universitas Andalas
Kalimantan’s land fires aren’t just down to El Niño—they are caused by soil losing its ability to hold water. Prevention must start by restoring the soil’s natural balance.
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By Neil McLaughlin, Professor of Sociology, McMaster University
Some Canadians may agree with Gad Saad’s portrayal of Canada a leftist, woke hellscape. But many don’t, making him a highly unreliable narrator on Canada as he moves to the U.S.
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By Marty Branagan, Associate Professor in Peace Studies, University of New England
Valerie Brown’s experiences with Greenpeace, which she headed when the Rainbow Warrior was bombed, read like a spy novel. But it’s just one way she changed the world.
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