By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Liberals’ ability to find things to fight about among themselves has no bounds. Now they are squabbling over Kevin Rudd.
On Tuesday, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley suggested Rudd shouldn’t continue as Australia’s ambassador to Washington after Donald Trump’s put down of him at the White House during the president’s meeting with Anthony Albanese.
“I don’t believe he should stay in that role. And to see the prime minister actually laughing at his own ambassador in the room when the president made a joke, I think it’s untenable,” she told Sky News.
Various opposition…
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By Lauren Manning, Lecturer in Dietetics and Human Nutrition, La Trobe University
For a while, the “hot girls have stomach problems” trend on social media has been a way for women to destigmatise irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
By sharing content about bloating, farting, diarrhoea and constipation, users normalise talking about some of the condition’s unpleasant…
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By Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Aditya Reddy Kurre, Dental Student, University of Pennsylvania
Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.
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By Timothy McKenry, Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
‘He is the sovereign master of his piano; he knows all its resources; he makes it speak, moan, cry, and roar under fingers of steel,’ wrote one critic at the time.
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By Marc Roscoe Loustau, Affiliated Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University
The US president, Donald Trump, was expected to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Hungarian capital of Budapest in coming weeks for more talks on ending the war in Ukraine.
However, the summit appears to have been cancelled following a call between the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. The White House gave no reason for the cancellation but some reports suggest…
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By Elizabeth Fenton, Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, University of Otago
Health Minister Simeon Brown claimed striking doctors are ‘crossing an ethical line’. But disruption can be ethical when public welfare is at stake.
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By Andrew Rojecki, Professor of Communication, University of Illinois Chicago
Tanja Aitamurto, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Illinois Chicago
Campy, exaggerated and partisan, many White House social media posts target the president’s base. But the communications approach may pose a risk to democracy.
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By David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
On November 5 the US Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments about the legality of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. As important as the tariff issue is, the stakes are much higher than that.
Trump has been claiming vast powers, at the expense of other branches of government, on the grounds of various “
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By Caroline Spry, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University
Allan Wandin, Elder of Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
Bob Mullins, Elder of Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
Diane Kerr, Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Indigenous Knowledge
Elspeth Hayes, Honorary Fellow, Centre for Archaeological Science, University of Wollongong
Ron Jones, Elder of Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
Boomerangs are an iconic symbol of Australia. Known internationally for their unique curved shape and ability to return when thrown, they are an example of the remarkable engineering skills of Australia’s First Peoples.
In new research, we have for the first time combined Traditional cultural knowledge with Western scientific analysis of a wangim (boomerang) from a reported burial located on the outskirts of Melbourne, on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, southeastern Australia.
Throwing sticks with…
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By Alexander Klimenko, Director, Centre for Multiscale Energy Systems, The University of Queensland
Switching off a large coal station may be satisfying. But it won’t be that easy for Queensland’s Gladstone power station.
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