By Fergus Edwards, Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania
One of the most critically acclaimed playwrights of our age, Tom Stoppard, has died at 88. He assumed his audience was as well read and inquisitive as he was.
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By Francesco Chirico, Professor of Strategy and Family Business, Macquarie University
Earlier this year, the world watched with interest as the Murdoch family’s real-life Succession drama came to a close.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s children – eyeing an empire estimated to be worth more than US$20 billion (A$30 billion) and control of the Fox Corporation and News Corporation – had disputed a change to their trust that would put…
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By Olena Onishchenko, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Otago
New Zealanders trade cryptocurrency worth billions every year, largely invisible to the tax system. That will change with the start of the next financial year.
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By Mark Beeson, Adjunct professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
Clinton Fernandes has established himself as one of the most original and insightful analysts of Australian security policy. An early career with the Australian Army Intelligence Corps no doubt gave him an inside view of the ideas that influence security policy in this country.
I’m not surprised he changed careers. To judge by this outstanding book, there is little regard for intelligence, much less independence of thought, among the people who shape “Australia’s” strategic outlook.
The scare quotes are merited because, as Fernandes observes, “Australia’s policy planners…
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By Arthur Wyns, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
The UN’s global climate summits have been accused of being slow, opaque and a magnet for fossil fuel lobbyists. A major overhaul is needed to make them relevant.
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By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal weather across southern Asia. Torrential rain has triggered the worst flooding in decades, accompanied by landslides. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia have been hit hardest. The death toll is likely to rise significantly.
Normally, cyclones don’t form close to the equator. But Cyclone Senyar formed just north of the equator in the Malacca Strait.…
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By Vera Korasidis, Lecturer in Environmental Geoscience, The University of Melbourne
Julian Rogger, Senior Research Associate, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere drastically increased and global temperatures shot up by some 6°C.
As we show in new research published in Nature Communications, one consequence was that many of the world’s plants could no longer thrive. As a result, they soaked up less carbon from the atmosphere, which may have contributed to another interesting thing…
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
A woman living with disabilities in a camp for displaced people in Nigeria is demonstrating why it is essential that people like her are included in society and how dignity can be protected even in the harshest places.
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By Alex Simpson, Associate Professor in Criminology, Macquarie University
State governments across the country have brought in harsher laws to deal with youth crime in recent years. But do the stats justify the punitive measures?
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By Kim Osman, Senior Research Associate, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Lynrose Jane Genon, PhD Candidate, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Michael Dezuanni, Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
The responses reveal a much more nuanced picture of the relationship between young Australians and social media than the public debate suggests.
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