By Alex Veen, Senior Lecturer and University of Sydney Business School Emerging Scholar Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Caleb Goods, Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
Tom Barratt, Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, The University of Western Australia
Will prices rise to cover better pay and standards? Yes, almost certainly. But it also means your next food delivery can come with a side of a little less guilt.
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By Andrew J. Whelton, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University
When fire evacuation orders are lifted and residents start returning to burned neighborhoods, many people assume “cleared to return” means “safe.” It rarely does.
As an environmental engineer who has worked with communities recovering from some of the most…
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By Andres Molina, Senior Research Fellow, Mitchell Institute/Centre for International Research on Education Systems, Victoria University
This gap was already a problem before the latest data. But the most recent results show how things are getting worse.
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By Josh Roose, Director of Research and Policy at The Dor Foundation and Associate Professor of Politics at Deakin University, Deakin University
New research looking at more than 1,300 posts directed toward witnesses reveals vitriolic abuse. Royal commissions need updating for the digital age.
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By Shelley J. Walker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Justice Health, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
Jocelyn Jones, Vice-Chancellor’s Associate Professional Research Fellow, Edith Cowan University
When children are denied bail, they’re often taken to police watch houses. But these don’t have the staff or facilities to keep children safe and well.
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By Linden Ashcroft, Senior Lecturer, Climate Science and Science Communication, The University of Melbourne
What flashes to mind when you hear the word “whiplash”?
Perhaps you picture someone’s head rocking back and forth during a car crash – a jarring and often painful experience. Climate whiplash is no different.
Scientists use the terms “weather whiplash” and “climate whiplash” to describe dramatic swings between different kinds of extreme weather. And as the world continues…
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By Rand Low, Associate Professor of Quantitative Finance, Bond University
Japan and the US both want the yen to strengthen, but for quite different reasons. But succeeding in this task has risks of its own.
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By Kate Bagnall, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania
Chinese Australian actor Christopher Chung takes on a lead romantic role in the new Netflix adaptation of My Brilliant Career.
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By Aidan Coleman, Senior Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, Southern Cross University
In this series, we explore influential Australian poems.
When John Forbes (1950–98) died of a heart attack at the young age of 47, he left behind a slim but remarkable body of work. He is still influential and widely read. His Collected Poems recently went into a fifth reprinting. A biography and anthology of his prose writings will be published in 2027.
Educated at De La Salle Catholic boys’ schools…
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By Antonia Goetz, Research Fellow Infant Studies, Western Sydney University
Zhen (Jenny) Zeng, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
You walk in a park. Children are playing, people are walking their dogs, and then you hear someone: “Who’s my little sweetie?” You turn around expecting to see a pram. But someone is sitting beside a dog, speaking in the same voice they would use with a baby.
It’s not in your head. The way we speak to babies is very similar to the way we speak to our pets – and research confirms this.
So why do we do this? And do pets even care?
The useful features of baby-talk
For pets and babies,…
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