By Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
Ara Cho, Research fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
A new study suggests making cigarettes cheaper would risk making smoking-related poverty in Australia worse overall, given it could lead to more people smoking.
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By Kristyn Harman, Professor in History, University of Tasmania
Many former convicts changed their names and hid their past. But over the last 50 years, Australians have increasingly discovered – and embraced – convict relatives.
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By Tina Soliman-Hunter, Professor of Energy and Natural Resources Law, Macquarie University
Renewables are reshaping the global energy sector.
Around the globe, we are installing solar panels and wind turbines with unprecedented speed with the aim of curbing climate…
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By Sarah Stevens, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Adolescent Mental Health at the Black Dog Institute, UNSW
Aliza Werner-Seidler, Professor and Program Lead in Adolescent Mental Health at the Black Dog Institute; Clinical Psychologist, UNSW
By the time an Australian student is 15, they will have already spent as many as 11,000 hours at school. What happens here matters for their wellbeing.
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By San Beauchemin, Doctoral Researcher, School of Political Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The International Court of Justice is reportedly going to rule in the coming weeks in The Gambia v. Myanmar, the genocide case against Myanmar.
In 2019, The Gambia filed an application at the ICJ alleging that Myanmar had violated the United Nations’ 1948…
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By Andrew J Tanentzap, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Trent University; University of Cambridge
Danai Kontou, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Invasion Ecology, University of Leeds
Most invasive species are introduced into the areas where they become damaging. That’s part of why they tend to be so successful in taking over new environments and causing billions of dollars in damage.
But what if species that we thought were introduced by humans arrived naturally?
In our recent research paper, we made a startling discovery about one of North…
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By Tiara Sukhan, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University
Reality competitions once used money to motivate the game. MrBeast puts the money itself at the centre of the spectacle.
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By Cornelia Schneider, Professor, Education, Mount Saint Vincent University
Creating structures and routines in the classroom means providing children with predictability about what is expected, when it is expected and how.
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By Gio Dolcecore, Assistant Professor, Social Work, Mount Royal University
Friendships are complicated relationships that can require more than an all-or-nothing choice. A therapist explains how to distinguish between conflict, change and genuine harm.
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By Jude Pierre Louis
From early August and continuing through September, dozens of informal vendors who used to ply their trade have been protesting in the hope of getting the Haitian government’s support.
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