Tuesday, December 9, 2025
From a walk in the woods, to spending time with family in the comfort of home, human rights are a lot more than sentences on paper.
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By Karen Cummings, Lecturer in Singing, University of Sydney
Music and theatre can bring into the world places and stories that exist only in the imagination. Can music and theatre also change hearts and minds?
This question is at the heart of Cowbois, a new music theatre piece written by Charlie Josephine and directed by Kate Gaul.
Cowbois reimagines a Hollywood-esque Wild West where rugged individuality and hyper masculinity are challenged and eventually replaced by joy, freedom and resistance. It dreams forward towards a utopian vision, where hope and desire can be forces for change.
Challenging community
Cowbois…
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By Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres, PhD Candidate, Political Science, International Relations and Constitutional Law, University of the Sunshine Coast
Shannon Brincat, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast
The Trump administration is reviving the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America. The aim: keeping China out and securing oil and resources for itself.
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By Vera Xia, Lecturer in Design and Urban Technology, University of Sydney
Hidden in city car parks or warehouses, smart greenhouses promise to bring farming back to the city. But can these technology boost resilience?
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By Shawna Foo, Senior Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
Maria Byrne, Professor of Marine Biology, University of Sydney
This is especially worrying because these massive corals are normally quite resilient to heat stress. Even the strong are now struggling to survive.
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By Juliet Bennett, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Alex Broom, Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
David Raubenheimer, Leonard P. Ullman Chair in Nutritional Ecology, Nutrition Theme Leader Charles Perkins Centre, Chair Sydney Food and Nutrition Network, University of Sydney
Food labels are intended to support healthy choices. But not all labelling schemes are equal.
Australia currently uses a voluntary Health Star Rating system. Food manufacturers can choose to add a star label to their packaging to indicate how it compares to other similar products. Or they can choose not to show a star rating on a product at all.
The Australian government is now considering making it mandatory.
But
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By Josephine Barbaro, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, Psychologist, La Trobe University
Marguerite Hawke, Research Officer and Writer at OTARC, La Trobe University
The book Someone Like Me offers deeply human insights into what it means to live in a neurotypical world as a neurodivergent person.
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By Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
The Australian Federal government’s Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act, commonly referred to as the “social media ban”, is now in effect.
In the months leading up to the ban, there have been a lot of stories about what will actually happen once the legislation is active, and many people believe the ban will prevent cyberbullying. It won’t – because bullying is a social problem, which can’t be solved with a quick technical fix.
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By Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of Art History, Griffith University
An enormous sun looms overhead in the gallery space. Somehow, it throbs and pulses with lights that render its surface active and alive. An austere rocky landscape inside another gallery reveals a riverbed and a narrow stream runs down the gentle slope towards the viewer.
Visitors explore, clamouring across the rocks and dipping their toes into the water to test the temperature. Outside, on a long table, visitors are invited to engage with hundreds of kilos of white Lego and build an imaginary cityscape.
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur…
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By Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
After the Rain, curated by Tony Albert, celebrates the resurgence of Australian Indigenous cultures in the aftermath of the loss of the referendum
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