By Kyle J.D. Mulrooney, Associate professor in Criminology, University of New England
Rural and regional areas bear a disproportionate burden of domestic violence. Distance, police staffing and station hours aren’t the only barriers to seeking help.
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By Rosemary Purcell, Professorial Fellow, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
Elite athletes are exposed to a range of sport-specific factors that can heighten their vulnerability to mental ill-health. These include injury, overtraining, burnout, performance-related pressures, intense public scrutiny and social media abuse.
Despite these risks, athletes are often…
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By Stephen Randerson, Research Officer in Drug Policy, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
For people living in New Zealand’s most deprived communities, alcohol is often far too accessible.
These areas have around three times as many off-licence supermarkets, grocery stores and bottle stores as the least deprived. Just within South Auckland suburbs Ōtara, Ōtāhuhu and Papatoetoe, there are 32 separate outlets.
Research suggests that concentration comes at a cost. Having more off-licence alcohol outlets nearby has been linked to violence,…
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By Yvonne Poitras Pratt, Full Professor and UCalgary Research Excellence Chair, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
Madelaine McCracken, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Melanie Griffith Brice, Associate Professor and Director of Indigenous Education, University of Calgary
There is a great need for ongoing authentic Métis voice, representation and expression of our unique cultural identity, and a Métis studies conference convenes people this September.
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By Matthew Benetti, Policy Manager (Energy), Climateworks Centre
Eleanor Guerra, Policy & Stakeholder Coordinator, Climateworks Centre
Australia is in the middle of a rapid data centre rollout. Warehouses full of computer servers that run the artificial intelligence (AI) tools society increasingly uses are being built at pace, and they draw heavily on essential resources.
Data centres need large amounts of electricity, water and land. Without the right planning and oversight, developers will secure what they need at the expense of Australia’s economy, nature and communities.
Without careful design, data centres could increase power bills, put pressure on water supplies, and slow the transition to net…
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By Felicity Castagna, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University
Foreign ‘invasion plots’ have featured in Australian literature for more than a century. Though critiqued by some authors, fears of white erasure endure.
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By Hedda Haugen Askland, Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of Newcastle
Whether steelmaking returns to Whyalla is only part of the story. The intervening years could have consequences of their own, and the community will need support.
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By Emma Beckett, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition and Food Science, Australian Catholic University
Coffee is best known, and perhaps most valued, for its caffeine and its ability to make us feel more awake and alert.
But coffee is much more than caffeine dissolved in hot water.
Coffee is a chemically complicated plant extract containing hundreds of bioactive compounds. These can have all kinds of weird and wonderful effects in your body, even when you’re drinking decaf.
Here are seven of the strangest.
1. Coffee can make you poo
One study shows about
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By Guzyal Hill, Research fellow, Law, The University of Melbourne
A record 44,039 Australians lodged claims at the Fair Work Commission between July 2025 and April 2026.
Those claims cover everything from unfair dismissal and underpayment disputes to bullying, sexual harassment and, most recently, arguments over the right…
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By Katharina Belt, Postdoctoral Researcher, Agricultural Science, The University of Western Australia
Samantha Harvie, Research Associate, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Australian farmers are heading into spring with an unusual mix of optimism and uncertainty.
The latest crop forecast from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) predicts the nation’s farmers will harvest 61 million tonnes of winter crops.
That would be Australia’s fourth-largest winter harvest on record, sitting 16%…
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