By Nina Hillenberg, Senior Lecturer, Design, Torrens University Australia
An Olympic emblem has to represent a city and a nation – while also engaging the rest of the world. How can one symbol do it all?
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By Kathryn Bowen, Director, Melbourne Climate Futures and Professor - Environment, Climate and Global Health at Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
Preparatory meetings for the United Nations’ annual climate summit are usually quiet affairs, focused on laying the political and technical groundwork for the main COP event. But this year felt very different.
I was at this week’s pre-COP31 gathering in Fiji for talks that were both harmonious and powerful. Pacific delegates were clearly frustrated at having to repeatedly retell their stories of climate change. But they were also generous in their wish for the world to engage with the reality they face.
Following a tussle for leadership…
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By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
Australian batters aren’t scoring runs like they used to. There are a few reasons why, but the answer isn’t obvious.
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By Joel Lexchin, Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
Alice Fabbri, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Bath
Barbara Mintzes, Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
Quinn Grundy, Associate Professor, Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
When you seek medical care, you hope that your doctor will present you with treatment options that are proven to be effective for your condition, that harms do not outweigh benefits and that recommended treatments are affordable and account for your personal situation.
But if your doctor has been influenced by messages, payments or gifts from drug companies, that is unlikely to be the case, as our team from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States found.
Pharmaceutical industry promotion is a global phenomenon. In the mid 2010s, companies in the U.S.…
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By Andrew Jull, Professor of Nursing, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
A new study linking lower nurse staffing on surgical wards with higher rates of post-operative deaths has raised urgent new questions about NZ’s settings.
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By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
New Nobel winner Anne Carson’s playful, deeply intelligent work riffs off and reinvents ancient classics – and often lands with breathtaking emotional force.
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By Michele Patterson Ford, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Dickinson College
The brain’s acute response to the trauma of sexual assault can block a person’s ability to accurately assess what they experienced.
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By Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
This story discusses sexual assault.
Magda Szubanski is a misfit. She knows it, she owns it and she wears it. And that’s why Australians love her.
Best known for her role as netball tragic Sharon Strzelecki on Kath & Kim, Szubanski has twice been voted the country’s most trusted celebrity. But she’s also a formidable author. In 2016, Szubanski’s first memoir, Reckoning,…
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By Margaret Murray, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Swinburne University of Technology
Protein is famous for filling us up and helping us stay full between meals. But fibre does this too – and most of us are not getting enough.
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By Laura Ginters, Associate Professor, Discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney
In Grace Chapple’s delightful and incisive adaptation, the story refocusses and settles into 2026, reminding us of the power of theatre.
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