By Ashmitaa Thiruselvam, Social Media Cadet, The Conversation
On questioning the nation’s strategic concerns about China, becoming a non-aligned nation and AI reducing total working hours: an edited selection of your views.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.
Monday July 20
On media balance
“This is an excellent article. Accurate and fair, educative and temperate. I am a secondary teacher and this is the type of article that all senior students need to read: not just for its social comment…
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By Andrew Cullen, Senior Research Fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
At a two-and-a-half-hour Senate grilling on Friday, Telstra executives revealed just how bad their catastrophic outage earlier this month was. At its peak, it affected about 45% of calls and data across the telco giant’s national network.
The root cause was a failed software update of a piece of hardware…
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By Zakaria Lacheheb, Assistant Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia
Universities’ crackdown on the use of AI misses the point. They should instead teach it as a vital productivity tool, undepinned by ethics.
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By Richard Dunley, Senior Lecturer in History and Maritime Strategy, UNSW Sydney
Nicole Townsend, Lecturer in War Studies, UNSW Sydney
A new survey reveals Australians’ growing sense of insecurity in the wake of the Bondi terror attack and global threats.
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By Steve Georgakis, Senior Lecturer of Pedagogy and Sports Studies, University of Sydney
The scoreline might suggest a tight struggle in the World Cup final but it was all one-way traffic as Spain prevailed.
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Three weeks ago, the Newspoll taken in the week after Pauline Hanson’s June 17 National Press Club address had the combined vote for One Nation and the Coalition down three points and the combined vote for Labor and the Greens up five points.
This Newspoll virtually reverses the movement three weeks ago, with the combined right vote up three points to 49% and the combined left vote down four points to 42%.
Three of the four other polls
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By Jason Alexandra, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
The unprecedented flooding in New South Wales in 2022 killed 13 people across the state, left 4,000 properties uninhabitable and damaged a further 10,900 homes. Lismore was especially hard hit due to its location on the Wilson River floodplain.
In response, Australia’s national science agency CSIRO has developed…
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By Tracey Holmes, Industry Professor in Sport and the Media, Office of 2032 Games Engagement, University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has been a raging success, judging by the numbers, the atmosphere and the absence of any major security incident.
It’s ironic, then, that officials from the powerful European nations are pushing for FIFA…
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By Kevin John Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
Sharon Kernot knows how to make a pressing, potent, aching song from a stanza of free verse lines – and how to make a page of poetry talk its way into your head.
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