By Ben Wellings, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
When Andy Burnham is handed the keys to 10 Downing Street on Monday, the United Kingdom will have its seventh prime minister in the ten years since it voted to leave the European Union.
It begs the question: what is it about the UK that makes governing it so difficult at this point in time?
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, a large part of the answer is Brexit. But Brexit only expressed and exacerbated some of the structural problems the UK still faces today: cynicism, pessimism and political…
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By Barbara Mintzes, Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
Ashleigh Hooimeyer, Associate Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
Kellia Chiu, Associate Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
International drug companies are threatening to remove medicines from the market if Australia doesn’t offer them a better price. Here’s what’s at stake.
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By Libby (Elizabeth) Sander, MBA Director & Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
A mix of work-from-home flexibility, with two to three days in the office, appears to be the sweet spot for looking after both employers’ and employees’ needs.
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By Seyedali Mirjalili, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Business and Hospitality, Torrens University Australia
Australia’s first AI traffic-light trial could cut delays. It also raises hard questions about fairness, safety and who gets priority on public roads.
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By Sally Patfield, Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
Leanne Fray, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
When public schools are unable to offer advanced subjects, students who had planned to go to uni give up hope.
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By Michael B. Charles, Associate Professor, Management Discipline, Faculty of Business, Arts and Law, Southern Cross University
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Macquarie University
Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied to Byzantine (Eastern Roman) incendiary weapons famously used in naval combat in the Eastern Mediterranean from around 673 CE to at least the 1180s.
So secret was the recipe for Greek fire that it died with the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in May 1453.
Since then, many alchemists, historians, chemists and experimental archaeologists have…
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By Laura
The victims’ families testified in court for the first time: "We want justice served. Even though their killers are no longer here, I want the truth known.”
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By Charlene Elliott, Professor, Communication Studies, University of Calgary
Using government developed criteria for marketing to kids, none of the child-targeted cereals examined would be permitted to be advertised to children, and 96 per cent surpassed sugar thresholds.
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By Elliott Skierszkan, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University
Andras J. Szeitz, PhD, School of Earth, Environment & Society, McMaster University
Streams are abruptly acidifying and turning orange or milky-white across vast regions of North America’s northwest. This is caused by permafrost thaw — an outcome of a warming climate that has immediate consequences for water and wildlife.
Stream acidification is driven by the weathering of naturally occurring sulphide minerals, which release acid, sulphate and toxic metals into groundwater and streams. This is known as acidic drainage.…
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By Beverlie Dietze, Part Time Faculty in Education, Mount Saint Vincent University
Kelsey Robson, Contract Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University
Melanie Manitowabi, Research and Special Projects Lead, Kenjgewin Teg.
Across Canada, every province and territory agrees: outdoor and land-based play belongs at the heart of children’s early learning.
Curriculum frameworks affirm in varied ways that outdoor environments are rich, intentional learning contexts, not supplements to the real program.
British Columbia’s framework embeds the First Peoples Principles of Learning. The Northwest Territories grounds its vision in Indigenous world views and learning from and with the…
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