By Trevor Mazzucchelli, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Curtin University
Some people seem naturally tidy. Their keys are always in the same place, clothes make it into the wardrobe, and their kitchen bench remains mysteriously visible.
Others can clean the house on Sunday and wonder by Wednesday how everything became messy again.
It’s tempting to explain this as personality: “I’m just a messy person.” And there is some truth to that. But personality isn’t destiny. Our surroundings and the small things we repeatedly do within them matter too.
In fact, changing those patterns may eventually change something about the kind of person…
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By William Partlett, Associate Professor of Public Law, The University of Melbourne
Premier Ben Carroll’s new laws, along with the building royal commission, are vital in ensuring accountability and restoring good governance in Victoria.
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By Derick M. J. Luong, Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
The NSW government has announced another legislative crackdown on organised crime after the suspected mistaken-identity killings of 23-year-old student Marco Tapia and 40-year-old Joshua Macdonald.
It is the government’s third major organised crime package in recent years.
The political spur is understandable. Multiple…
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
How will the Supreme Court justices approach the vote-by-mail case that concerns the most fundamental right in a democracy, the right to vote? A former federal judge weighs in on their task.
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By Anthony Clarke, Research Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
Jim Leary, Senior Lecturer in Field Archaeology, University of York
Long ago, the Devil stood on Howe Hill and hurled giant stones towards the town of Aldborough, roaring:
“Borobrigg keep out o’ way, for Auldbro’ town I’ll ding down!”
Fortunately for Aldborough, his aim was poor. The stones fell short, landing outside Boroughbridge instead, where they became known as the Devil’s Arrows. Or so an old Yorkshire legend tells us.
It is a dramatic explanation for one of Britain’s most extraordinary prehistoric monuments: three enormous megaliths, rising…
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By Mingyue Selena Sheng, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Le Wen, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
New research highlights the overlooked role of road dust in Auckland’s air pollution, with heavy vehicles having an outsized impact.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Cleaner at work in a Seoul metro station, Seoul, South Korea. © 2022 Shutterstock (Seoul) – Women in South Korea face systemic gender discrimination at every stage of their working lives, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. These adverse impacts accumulate as women get older, and are compounded by systemic age discrimination, resulting in harm to their physical and mental health.The 92-page report, “Too Old and a Woman: Systemic Age and Gender Discrimination Against Women at Work in South Korea,” documents that social attitudes toward education,…
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By Sara Hassanpour Tamrin, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary
Arindom Sen, Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary
The devices make tumour-on-a-chip technology easier and cheaper to build, with the hope they can be moved into clinical use for personalized cancer treatment.
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By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
The federal government has released an exposure draft of its long-promised digital duty of care.
The headline feature is an “off switch”. Social media platforms would have to ask users, through prompts that appear from time to time, whether they want to keep a personalised, algorithm-driven…
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By Beth Webster, Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
Can you imagine Australia without Medicare, the age pension, or with 50% tariffs on imported goods such as cars, clothes and shoes?
Institutions we take for granted now took many decades of agitating, fighting vested interests and staring down passive resistance to be created. This is the realpolitik of economics.
Economic reforms have changed…
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