By Tracy McEwan, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
Kathleen McPhillips, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
Pope Francis is being remembered as a pastoral leader – and in some ways, his treatment of women in the Catholic Church was unprecedented. But he could have done more.
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By Cecilia Maundu
Countries implementing digital ID programs, such as Nigeria and Kenya, have experienced data breaches, raising fears about how well governments can protect sensitive personal information.
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By Albert Palazzo, Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
For more than a century, Australia has followed the same defence policy: dependence on a great power. This was first the United Kingdom and then the United States.
Without properly considering other options, successive federal governments have intensified this policy with the AUKUS agreement and locked Australia into dependency on the US for decades to come.
A more imaginative and innovative…
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By Frank Rindert Algra-Maschio, PhD Candidate, Social and Political Sciences, Monash University
David Campbell, Senior Researcher, Information and Integrity Hub, RMIT University
Eiddwen Jeffery, Researcher, RMIT Information Integrity Hub, RMIT University
Lisa Waller, Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University
Three weeks into the federal election campaign and both major parties have already pledged to spend billions in taxpayer dollars if elected on May 3.
But with so many policies announced — and surely more to follow — sometimes it can be hard to make sense of exactly what is being promised.
That ambiguity can come back to bite voters, and the government, during the next term.
So, how do you sort the deliverable promises from the downright impossible?
It’s a question…
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By Farah Houdroge, Mathematical Modeller, Burnet Institute
Mark Stoové, Head of Public Health, Co-Head HIV Elimination Program, Head of Justice Health Research, Burnet Institute
Nick Scott, Head of Modelling and Biostatistics, Burnet Institute
Australia leads the world in community-based needle programs. Yet they’re not used in prisons – which are hotspots for hepatitis C infection.
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By Katherine Kent, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Wollongong
The survey tracked students in Tasmania in 2022 and 2024. More than a quarter are often going without food because they can’t afford it.
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By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
Ana Goncalves Costa, Researcher, Animal Behaviour, Welfare and Anthrozoology Lab, University of Adelaide
Exhaustion. Sleep deprivation. Feeling depressed and guilty. Lingering doubts and regret. If you’ve had a puppy, this may all sound grimly familiar.
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By Claire Hooker, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
Barbara Quayle, Vice-president of the Menindee Aboriginal Elders Council, Indigenous Knowledge
Dave Doyle, Barkindji/Malyangapa Indigenous Knowledge holder, Indigenous Knowledge
Reakeeta Smallwood, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Indigenous and Population health, University of Sydney
The river’s health has been suffering, with a number of harrowing mass fish deaths events taking place in recent years.
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By Iva Glisic, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Humanities, The University of Western Australia
Sofi Oksanen draws on her family’s history of Soviet colonisation and reports of the war in Ukraine to argue Russia uses violence against women as a weapon of war.
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By James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (Climate Science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Warm air rises, but it also expands because air pressure decreases with height. The latter effect wins out and air becomes colder in the mountains.
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