By Thomas Klassen, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
In the coming months, Canada’s political leaders and their parties face difficult circumstances — most importantly, how Mark Carney manages the relationship with Donald Trump.
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By Julian Novitz, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
Evidence suggests male writers and readers are in decline – in Australia and elsewhere. Is a male-only publishing house the solution?
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By Doug Richardson, Research Associate in Climate Science, UNSW Sydney
Andreia Filipa Silva Ribeiro, Climate Researcher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ
Fire seasons on both sides of the Pacific overlap for seven weeks a year – and changes in Australia’s climate are driving the problem.
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By Eve Warburton, Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, and Director, Indonesia Institute, Australian National University
Olga Boichak, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, Australian Research Council DECRA fellow, University of Sydney
Not only are experts sceptical of the value of Ukraine’s reserves, profits could be decades off. Trump, however, may have other motivations for making the deal.
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By Paul Strangio, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Monash University
Watching elections over the decades, one thing that has struck me is that results are invariably hyperbolised in the first blush of the people’s verdict. The achievement of the winners is over-egged in the commentary, as is the scale of the calamity suffered by the losers.
That caveat notwithstanding, I think we can credibly say that Saturday’s election result was the most momentous since John Howard’s totemic victory of 2001 — a win that set in train much of what has happened in Australian politics over the course of this century.
As I suggested in my
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By Ozgur Gocer, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
Richard de Dear, Director, Indoor Environmental Quality Laboratory, University of Sydney
Thomas Parkinson, Lecturer, University of Sydney
Flexible work has become the new norm, despite the best efforts of companies calling workers back to the office.
Some employers assume that a return to the old ways of working is both possible and desirable. But for many workers, their perception of the office environment has changed.
According to our new…
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By Victoria Stace, Senior Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Anti-money laundering rules make it very difficult for ex-prisoners to open a bank account – meaning it’s harder to get paid or receive a benefit.
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By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
There’s nothing new about our modern obsession with playing and watching sports – they were popular in ancient Greek and Roman times too.
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By Jay Deagon, Senior Lecturer of Home Economics, CQUniversity Australia
Gemma Mann, Senior Lecturer in Access and Equity in Education, CQUniversity Australia
One moment, your spaghetti is happily bubbling away in the pot. A minute later, after busying yourself with something else, you turn around to find a hot mess all over your stove.
Boiling liquid can rocket up very quickly, and we often only have a split second to act. But are there ways to prevent the pot boiling over in the first place? One kitchen hack you may have seen on social media is to place a wooden spoon across the top of the pot.
Does it work? As with many kitchen science questions,…
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By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Associate professor, Chair of Linguistics and Director of Language Lab, The University of Western Australia
An estimated 90% of the training data for current generative AI systems stems from English. However, English is an international lingua franca with about 1.5 billion speakers worldwide, and countless varieties.
So whose English is today’s technology based on? The answer is primarily the English of mainstream America.
This is no accident. Mainstream American English is entrenched in the digital…
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