By Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer – Writing, Editing, and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland
This week, it will be 30 years since the Oklahoma bombing. Now, it’s back on the cultural agenda, as the right-wing extremism that drove McVeigh is on the rise.
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By Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
Multicultural policy is adrift in the election campaign, with the major parties refusing to commit to the changes needed to minimise mounting community tensions
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By Lisa M. Katerina Asher, Doctoral Candidate, Business School, University of Sydney
Drew Franklin, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Raffaele F Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
Customer data has become a valuable asset for businesses. But privacy laws need to be clearer about what happens to this information when businesses go into liquidation.
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By Inessa De Angelis, PhD Student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
This scholar has found that 86 per cent of replies to tweets sent to women MPs contained some form of harassment. This is a clear threat to women’s participation in politics.
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By Ruth Skinner, Sessional instructor, School for Advanced Studies in the Arts & Humanities, Western University
The work of London, Ont., artist Greg Curnow, and the the art scene and city he was part of offer creative inspiration for navigating Canada-U.S. tensions.
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By Patrick Michael Condon, Professor and UBC James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments., University of British Columbia
The same market logics that defined the Gilded Age of the early 20th century have quietly returned in our own century, with devastating consequences.
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By Mahée Gilbert-Ouimet, Professeure agrégée en santé des populations au Département des sciences de la santé, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
Jessica Rouillier, Candidate à la maîtrise en psychologie, l'Université Laval
Valérie Hervieux, Professeure en santé et sécurité du travail, Université de Montréal
The incidence of cardiovascular disease varies according to sex and age. Research shows that it also varies by gender, so it is important to considering this when doing research.
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By Alex Jordan, Associate Professor of Plastics Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new materials. However, there are solutions.
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By Andy Marks, Vice-President, Public Affairs and Partnerships, Western Sydney University
Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University
Michelle Cull, Associate Professor, Western Sydney University
The debate between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton had it’s moments, but viewers learned little more than they already knew.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Two “moments” stuck out in Wednesday’s leaders’ debate, the second head-to-head of the campaign.
Peter Dutton cut his losses over his faux pas this week when he wrongly named Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto as having said there had been a Russian approach to base aircraft in Papua.
So that was a mistake, ABC moderator David Speers asked. “It was a mistake.”
The other “moment” was in a discussion about negative gearing, when Anthony Albanese denied the government had sought modelling on that. The public service “certainly wasn’t commissioned by us to do…
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