By Giovanni E Ferreira, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
Christine Lin, Professor, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
Christopher Maher, Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Ian Harris, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UNSW Sydney
Joshua Zadro, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Musk has recommended people experiencing severe neck and back pain should consider disc replacement surgery. Here’s what the research says.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The National Assembly building in Luanda, Angola, February 13, 2013. © 2013 FrankvandenBergh/Getty Images (Johannesburg) – Angola’s parliament should significantly revise or withdraw a proposed national security law that fails to meet international human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said today. The draft National Security Law passed a first vote in parliament on January 25, 2024. Following specialist committee review, the bill is expected to be submitted to parliament for final approval. The draft law in its current form would permit excessive government control…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Demonstrators march on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers in Melbourne, Australia, April 19, 2021. © 2021 Diego Fedele/Getty Images (Sydney) – The Australian government should withdraw a proposed law that would allow the authorities to seek prison terms for asylum seekers for exercising their right not to be sent to a country where they fear being persecuted, Human Rights Watch said in a submission to the Australian parliament. The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee is currently considering the Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill…
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By Chris Wallace, Professor, School of Politics Economics & Society, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra
Next month’s budget is an opportunity for the government to move beyond its ‘I feel your pain’ rhetoric to a HomeKeeper-style policy for this particular group of temporarily squeezed Australians.
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By Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University
The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK.
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By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
We now have a sensible pathway to improve access to health care, using the skills of nurses, pharmacists and GPs appropriately.
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By Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
Ever wondered where everyday things got their names? Or where words come from? Language is a powerful thing, creating new words all the time.
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By Rebecca Gladstone-Gallagher, Lecturer in Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Conrad Pilditch, Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Waikato
Simon Francis Thrush, Director of the Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Pollution on land inevitably ends up in the sea. Policy makers must stop working in silos and instead consider the indirect consequences human impacts on land have for marine environments.
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By Craig Billingham, Lecturer, Creative Writing, UNSW Sydney
Robert Adamson, one of our greatest poets, died aged 79 on December 16, 2022. By that time, as recorded in the biographical note in his final book, Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury, he had published 21 volumes of poetry and had long been a renowned editor, critic and publisher. He made a significant and lasting contribution to Australian literature.
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury – Robert Adamson (Upswell)
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By Christopher Pepping, Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, Griffith University
Geoff Macdonald, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
Tim Cronin, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, La Trobe University
Yuthika Girme, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Are all single people insecure? When we think about people who have been single for a long time, we may assume it’s because single people have insecurities that make it difficult for them to find a partner or maintain a relationship.
But is this true? Or can long-term single people also be secure and thriving?
Our latest research published in the Journal of Personality suggests they can. However, perhaps unsurprisingly, not everybody tends to thrive in singlehood. Our study shows a…
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