By Barbara Mintzes, Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
David Menkes, Associate Professor in Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Fiona Willer, Lecturer, Dietitian and Bioethicist, Queensland University of Technology
Jennifer Power, Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Manager, University of Sydney and Honorary Assistant Professor, Bond University
Unlike in the United States and New Zealand, it’s illegal in Australia to advertise prescription medicines directly to the public.
The main idea is to avoid demand for a drug that may not be appropriate, but which doctors may feel under pressure to prescribe.
But drug companies can get around this restriction by running “awareness” ads that indirectly promote their products.
For instance, we’re currently seeing…
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By Brian Hioe
Uzbekistan will get new waste-to-energy (WTE) plants to solve its mounting trash problem, and Chinese waste management companies get to expand their businesses abroad amid overcapacity in the domestic market.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A member of the UN checks on the destruction at a school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) that was previously hit by Israeli bombardment, in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 15, 2024. © 2024 Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP (The Hague) – Israel should comply with its obligation to cooperate with the United Nations by ensuring the unhindered provision of essential aid to Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in an October 22, 2025 advisory…
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By Dante DeBono, PhD Candidate in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
5 STEPS FOR BETTER LIVING, MAXIMUM GAINS AND MANIFESTING YOUR MOST OPTIMISED SELF!! is part of the Adelaide Film Festival.
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By Amnesty International
ASEAN member states must put human rights at the centre of regional discussions and decision-making, Amnesty International said as Southeast Asian leaders gather for the bloc’s 47th Summit in Malaysia this weekend. “It is long past time for member states to act decisively to address the continually deteriorating crisis in Myanmar. Nearly five years since […] The post Southeast Asia: ASEAN Summit must address deteriorating crisis in Myanmar and ongoing scam compound activity appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Russell Field, Associate Professor, Sport and Physical Activity, University of Manitoba
More than 30 years after their last World Series appearance, the Blue Jays’ return offers a chance to reflect on the team’s evolution and its place in Canadian sports history.
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By Aleh Cherp, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University
Jessica Jewell, Professor in Technology and Society, Chalmers University of Technology
Tsimafei Kazlou, PhD Candidate, Center for Climate and Energy Transformations, University of Bergen
Just 1% of the world’s coastal waters could, in theory, generate enough offshore wind and solar power to provide a third of the world’s electricity by 2050. That’s the promise highlighted in a new study by a team of scientists in Singapore and China, who systematically mapped the global potential of renewables at sea.
But turning that potential into reality is another story. Scaling up offshore renewables fast enough to seriously dent global emissions faces formidable technical, economic and political…
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By Brigid Magner, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
Australian author Elizabeth Harrower wrote four novels in rapid succession. Then she stopped. Perhaps the miracle is that she wrote anything, given her childhood.
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By Russell Fewster, Lecturer in Performing Arts, University of South Australia
Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is given a significant new production from State Opera South Australia, West Australian Opera and the Irish National Opera.
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By Olli Hellmann, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waikato
Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.
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