By Carl Rhodes, Professor of Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
Democracy demands that citizens are treated equally under the law. The tax avoidance practices of the ultra-rich violate that principle, a new book argues.
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By Gabrielle Appleby, Professor of Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
Australian governments have an unfortunate history with community grants programs. Sports infrastructure programs, car park grants and other schemes have repeatedly raised the same concern: public money intended to serve communities becomes entangled with electoral politics.
The Albanese government’s…
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By Jenny Doust, Clinical Professorial Research Fellow, Australian Women and Girls' Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland
Ovarian cancer has a particularly poor survival rate. Only one in two women will live five years beyond their diagnosis.
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By Ella Clausius, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Reef Ecology, University of Tasmania
Not so long ago, we thought the ocean was an inexhaustible resource. There would always be plenty more fish in the sea.
We now know this isn’t true. A growing proportion of the world’s oceans are overfished. And even though we’re fishing more intensively and using more advanced gear than ever, the total number of…
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By Md Alamgir Hossain, Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Southern Queensland
Shahbaz Mushtaq, Director of the Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, University of Southern Queensland
Imagine you’re halfway through your annual wheat harvest when a global crisis sends diesel and fertiliser prices soaring. All at once, your costs surge and your slender profit margin shrinks.
Are there alternatives? Increasingly, the answer is yes. Putting solar on the shed roof or an unproductive field could help keep the farm running.
In August, the federal government announced it would lift the cap on…
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By Guy Curtis, Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
Amanda White, Associate Professor in Accounting
Unis have always had academic misconduct processes in place. But the impact of these experiences on students’ wellbeing has been mostly anecdotal.
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By GV Central Asia and Caucasus
When a woman learns to calculate the value of her time and says, “This is evidence, and they must answer,” a permanent shift takes place for her and the community.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image © 2025 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch In the early hours of September 5, a UN disarmament meeting in Geneva concluded three years of work on autonomous weapons systems, colloquially known as killer robots. While the final report was significantly watered down, it left the door open for more concrete action in November, with a record number of states now supporting negotiations on legally binding rules.The stakes could not be higher, given growing reports that autonomous weapons are already being deployed on the battlefield. These systems, which select…
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By Neil J. Gostling, Associate Professor in Evolution and Palaeobiology, University of Southampton
Archaeopteryx is an icon of evolution and is often called the first bird. Scientists have long debated just how it took off from the ground but a recent study published by my colleagues and I has brought new insights to the mystery.
Our study compared Archaeopteryx with the anatomy of modern birds, and our findings suggest it generated the force needed to take off by taking several jumps forwards.
Archaeopteryx, a fossil uncovered from the Jurassic rocks of Germany, dates…
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By Shireen Kassam, Visiting Professor, Health and Wellbeing Research Group, University of Winchester
Dagfinn Aune, Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
More than 1.4 billion people worldwide live with high blood pressure (hypertension). It’s the single biggest metabolic risk factor for early death – driving diseases such as heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and dementia.…
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