By Bec Kavanagh, Senior Tutor in Publishing & Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
Social media communities on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have encouraged teens to read for fun. Now, Australian teens are banned from them until they turn 16.
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By Cody Lindsay, Lecturer, Exercise and Sport Science, Flinders University
Bowlers in cricket look to challenge batters with swing, seam and spin bowling. Scientists are still learning how bowlers achieve them.
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By Hinze Hogendoorn, Professor, Visual Time Perception, Queensland University of Technology
How is it December already? What happened to 2025? And how did we suddenly jump from eating Easter eggs to putting up Christmas trees?
To understand why our perception of time seems to bend and warp, we need to dig into how our brains tell time in the first place.
The term “time perception” is actually a bit of a misnomer, because time itself isn’t “out there” to be perceived.
When we perceive a colour, a sound, a flavour…
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By Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
Not all words are created equal – and those that sound more surprising are more likely to grab our attention and stick in our memory.
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By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
Jasmina Joldić, Adjunct Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
The Dayton Accords were not perfect. But they stopped the Bosnian war, enabled accountability for atrocities, and offered millions the chance to rebuild their lives.
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By Iain Davidson, Emeritus Professor, Department of Archaeology, Classics and History, University of New England
Avelina Tarrago, Barrister-at-Law, Indigenous Knowledge
Isabel Tarrago, Former Director of Cultural Heritage, Queensland, Indigenous Knowledge
Rock art images show Songlines reached from Murujuga beside the Indian Ocean to the eastern Simpson Desert, 2,300 kilometers away.
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By Chelsea Arnold, Clinical Psychologist and Research Fellow (Lead Clinician), Monash University
Kathleen de Boer, Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology
Toni Pikoos, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Clinical Psychologist, ReadyMind Co-Founder, Swinburne University of Technology
Many hundreds of people were at Bondi beach on Sunday when 50-year-old Sajid Akram and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people.
Many witnesses saw people be seriously injured or die. These experiences are considered traumatic events, even when you don’t know the person who was harmed.
While some people will be able to process such events with some coping strategies, others will will find their extreme distress impacts their mental health.
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By James Densley, Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
Prevention methods like lockdown drills do not account for many scenarios, including the likely case that a school shooter is a former or current student.
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By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
John Hawkins, Head, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
The drivers of the improvement are largely outside the government’s control. Meanwhile, total debt is projected to exceed $1 trillion for the first time by mid-2027.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
The UN’s top human rights official warned on Tuesday that repression is tightening its grip in Venezuela while civilians in Ukraine face an ever-rising toll, as global attention drifts from two crises marked by deepening abuses and shrinking accountability.
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