By Juliette McIntyre, Senior Lecturer in Law, Adelaide University
Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Associate Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
Should we push for a better UN that doesn’t reward the powerful by making them unaccountable? Absolutely. Should we scrap it altogether? No.
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By Rachel Carey, Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
Australia can learn from other countries to introduce a universal free school lunch program that benefits children, families, local farmers and the planet.
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By Md Jaynul Abden, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Western Sydney University
Jannatul Dil Afroze, Researcher in the School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Western Sydney University
Many Australian homes are like an oven in summer and a fridge in winter. New ‘smart materials’ are being developed to make houses comfortable in a changing climate.
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By Martina Linnenluecke, Professor at UTS Business School; Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience, University of Technology Sydney
Carl Rhodes, Professor of Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.
The social media platforms, e-commerce sites and search engines they were using had noticeably deteriorated in quality. Many had begun to prioritise content from advertisers and other third parties. Profit became the main goal.
Doctorow frames this decline as a death spiral: the online platforms once offered value to their users, but…
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By Gabriela Mesones Rojo
“I thought Venezuelans had already heard every sound the country’s violence had to offer. But this was something new — terrifying in its unfamiliarity.”
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By Philippe Le Billon, Professor, Geography Department and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
Canada and Venezuela compete in the same heavy-oil regional and global markets, so shifts in supply from Canada to Venezuela would widely reverberate across the Canadian economy.
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By Dan Dixon, Associate Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
In That Book is Dangerous! author Adam Szetela argues we exist in a ‘Sensitivity Era’ and publishing is paying the price. Is he right?
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By Lucie Newsome, Lecturer, Business School, University of New England
Danielle Miller, Sessional academic, University of New England
Things have come a long way since the 1980s. But women still do not have the equal economic access they deserve.
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By Sam Arnold, Senior Lecturer in Psychological Sciences, Western Sydney University
Julianne Maree Higgins, Adjunct Associate Lecturer, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, UNSW Sydney
Many autistic people face challenges in their daily life while navigating a world made for neurotypical people.
Think about a trip to your local cafe. You might have patrons crammed into small spaces, bright lights, strong odours and sounds of noisy coffee machines, scraping chairs on hard surface floors, and crockery and cutlery clattering.
This escalating cacophony can easily become overwhelming for someone with sensory processing sensitivities, which are a common…
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By Carolina Quintero Rodriguez, Senior Lecturer and Program Manager, Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise) program, RMIT University
Summer means sunshine, beach days, and afternoons by the pool … which means wearing swimwear and looking after it. But while we enjoy those carefree summer days, pool chemicals, UV rays from sunlight, sweat and salt water are quietly damaging the delicate fibres of our swimwear.
The good news is a simple habit can make a big difference. You may have heard you should rinse out your swimmers after you’ve been in the pool so they don’t fall apart. Here’s the science behind this advice.
What swimwear is made of
Modern swimwear isn’t just fabric. It’s an engineered material…
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