By Zoe Doubleday, Associate Professor and Marine Ecologist, Adelaide University
Bethany Jackel, PhD student, Flinders University
By late June, the animals should be well and truly aggregating. In short, the cuttlefish have simply failed to turn up.
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By Hai Thiem Bui, Researcher, Stockholm Centre for Global Asia, Stockholm University; Malmö University
As Vietnam’s top leader visits Australia this week, he may struggle to convince a distrustful diaspora to engage deeply with the communist government in Hanoi.
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By Birri O'Dea, First Nations Program Manager One Basin CRC, The University of Queensland
Chesley Cutler, Lecturer, Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University
Troy Meston, Professor of First Nations Research, First Nations Program Lead, Charles Sturt University
Australia’s Census has a complicated history with Indigenous peoples. One major issue is an ongoing undercount of First Nations people.
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By Patrick Dodd, Professional Teaching Fellow, Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Hanoku Bathula, Professional Teaching Fellow in Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
As AI transforms graduate careers, universities should rethink when students specialise and how they combine disciplinary expertise with broader skills.
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By Emma Kohen, PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University
Read together, these very different books ask a question: do we have to choose between hope for the future and accepting life in all its bizarre banality?
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.
Monday August 10
“After reading the article about student disengagement, I was struck by the absence of relevance being questioned by the research. With so much emphasis on academic achievement has anyone asked students what they want to learn? There used to be…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
The latest federal Newspoll has the combined vote for One Nation and the Coalition down two points to 47%. This is in line with most other recent polls, the exception being last week’s Redbridge poll that had the combined right at 53%.
The improved position for the left comes despite Anthony Albanese’s net approval slumping four points to -22, just above his record low in early June.
In Victorian polling ahead of the state election in…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Vietnam's President To Lam leads his delegation in a meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines, June 1, 2026. © 2026 Rolex Dela Pena/AP Photo As Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with To Lam, Vietnam’s president and general secretary of the Communist Party, in Canberra this week, he shouldn’t forget that he is dealing with one of the region’s most repressive leaders.While minister of Vietnam’s notorious Ministry of Public Security from 2016 to 2024, To Lam oversaw a far-reaching crackdown…
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By Stuart Phillips, Professor, Kinesiology, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health, McMaster University
Research has moved past the question of whether we can live longer. The new question is whether we’re willing to invest — seriously, equitably and early — in the things that will help us live better.
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By Kristen Sobeck, Lecturer in Economics, University of Canberra
Should billionaires pay more tax? Californians will vote for whether to introduce a billionaire tax in November. In the United Kingdom, economists recently called for a net wealth tax on assets over £10 million (about A$19 million).
Australia may seem absent from the debate, but it shouldn’t be. The same…
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