By Robert Breunig, Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Peter Varela, Research Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Australia’s migration debate is typically framed in terms of how much to cut. But there is a smarter way to screen migrants than our current outdated system.
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By Bronwyn Milkins, Postdoctoral Researcher in Youth Trauma and Dissociation, The Kids Research Institute Australia
Hayley Jackson, Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health, The Kids Research Institute
Jeneva Ohan, Professor, Healing Kids, Healing Families, The Kids Research Institute Australia
The term is everywhere, but what does it mean? Six guiding principles can help organisations provide care without causing further harm.
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By Lisa Kervin, Professor, Early Childhood, Monash University
The latest instalment of the film franchise addresses a dilemma many parents face: what happens to playtime when children become obsessed with screens?
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By Jan Lanicek, Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW Sydney
In the renowned Holocaust documentary, Shoah (1985), former SS guard Franz Suchomel sings a song prisoners had to perform in the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. After finishing the last line, he chillingly asks the director, Claude Lanzmann: “Satisfied? That’s unique. No Jew knows that today!”
More than 30 years before, in 1945,…
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By Asma Aziz, Senior Lecturer in Power Engineering, Edith Cowan University
Yasir Arafat, Senior Research Engineer in Electric Vehicle Batteries and Battery Storage, Edith Cowan University
Residents in remote communities at the end of the power grid have long struggled with unreliable power. But change is coming
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Mayra Djibrine, May 9, 2026, in Brussels, Belgium. © Private Niger’s junta leader, Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani, signed on June 11 a decree provisionally stripping Nigerien nationality from Mariama Djibrine, a leading opposition figure living in exile. The measure is based on a 2024 order that created a national database of people suspected of terrorism.Authorities accuse Djibrine of disseminating “information likely to disturb public order, inciting revolt, and colluding with a foreign power.” The accusations come amid an escalating crackdown on dissent…
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By Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Senior Professor of Psychology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Our study found that although women complained of sleep problems more often, they slept objectively better than men on average.
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By Fazl Barez, Senior Researcher in AI safety, interpretability and technical governance, University of Oxford
In tests, AI robot systems easily rejected directly malicious commands. But their safety filters collapsed when creative writing was used to instruct them.
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By Chris Rapley, Professor of Climate Science, UCL
The US shows how climate change can become a partisan battleground. Britain still has the institutions and public support to avoid the same fate.
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By Laura Seymour, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
Does it seem as though more people are coming out as neurodivergent these days?
Perhaps you’ve heard complaints that social media – particularly TikTok – is driving a trend. Or maybe you’ve encountered the suggestion that neurodivergence has somehow become fashionable, a label people adopt for attention, status or belonging.
For
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