By Liz Minchin, Executive Editor + Business Editor, The Conversation
Victoria Thieberger, Business and Economics Editor, The Conversation
Modest tax cuts, changes to the way superannuation is paid and a whole lot more – this is what’s changing from next week.
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By David Kilcullen, Professor of International and Political Studies, UNSW Sydney
Iran has emerged undefeated after nearly four months of war against a nuclear-armed regional rival (Israel) and the world’s most powerful military (the United States).
The regime is still in control of its population and territory. Though its economy is suffering, Iran’s industrial base is still churning out missiles, drones and rockets.
Many of Tehran’s top…
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By Meena Jha, Associate Professor, College of Information & Communication Technology, CQUniversity Australia
Earlier this month the University of Sydney launched an investigation into allegations miniature spy cameras were used to record and distribute exam content online.
At the same time, the UK’s national examinations regulator warned…
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By Melissa de Zwart, Professor, Adelaide University
It can be easy to lose sight of the fact that the US isn’t the only major actor in space.
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By James Ley, Deputy Books + Ideas Editor, The Conversation
There is a particular pleasure in a new reading discovery, so we asked 7 literary experts to unearth some lost treasures for us.
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By Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and Founder of Popsicule, ANU’s Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub, Australian National University
For centuries, clowns occupied an ambiguous cultural position. They were comic figures, but also disruptive ones: tricksters who mocked authority and social conventions, picaresque mischief-makers who challenged canons of elegant appearance through their own distinctive, subversive style.
The 19th century French mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau transformed the melancholic white-faced Pierrot into a modern icon of theatrical artifice and fashionable alienation.…
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By Tandeep Sidhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
Countering violent extremism requires substantial investment from all levels of government, dismantling the state’s racialized assumptions of criminality and recognizing that gendered violence is systemic.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters in Mekele, Tigray region, Ethiopia, June 30, 2021. © 2021 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Regional authorities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region should withdraw a proclamation that purports to grant them sweeping powers to compel military service and punish dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Tigray’s main political party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), issued the proclamation in early June 2026 after driving out regional leaders appointed by the federal government and initiating…
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By Jo Adetunji, Executive Editor – Partnerships, The Conversation
Our competition is looking for the best longform article and nonfiction book idea aimed at a general audience from our community of academics.
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By Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel, Professor, Psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR)
Marie-Ève Daspe, Associate professor, Psychology, Université de Montréal
Noémie Bigras, Assistant professor, Psychology, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
Sexual, physical and emotional abuse, and neglect experienced as a child, can change how a partner’s affection feels as an adult, potentially impacting a romantic relationship.
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