By Jill Vaughan, Senior Lecturer, Monash University
Josef Noel Tye, Director Indigenous Innovation and Experience Programs, Monash University
Northern Irish hip hop trio Kneecap have been making waves, not just as musicians, but as language activists who rap in both English and their native Irish. In Belfast’s Gaeltacht Quarter, Irish is a living language. It is also a political statement – a form of resistance against British cultural dominance.
Kneecap’s music is having a big impact, particularly on young Irish people. While language study in Northern Ireland is declining…
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
The reality of opioid therapy, kindness for fellow humans and criticism for a piece on COP30: and edited selection of your views.
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By Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
With a bold reform agenda and occasional administrative chaos, Whitlam’s three-year government had, and continues to have, a profound effect on Australian life.
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By Amanda Dunn, Politics + Society Editor, The Conversation
Matt Garrow, Editorial Web Developer, The Conversation
As prime minister, Whitlam changed the country in profound ways. 10 experts assess how the prime ministers since shape up as agents of change - for better or worse.
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By Katrina Barclay, Executive Manager, Telfer Family Enterprise Legacy Institute (FELI), L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Peter Jaskiewicz, Professor and University Research Chair in Enduring Entrepreneurship, Academic Director Family Enterprise Legacy Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Like previous federal budgets, the recently released Budget 2025 fails to acknowledge a pressing generational shift for Canada’s economy: the succession crisis facing most Canadian family-owned businesses.
Over the next decade, 60 per cent of family enterprises will change hands — if those ownership transfers happen at all.
When…
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By Eric Story, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of History, Western University
After the First World War, two war amputees raised the profile of disabled veterans and challenged ableism as they trekked 2,000 kilometres from Calgary to Thunder Bay.
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By Karen Bird, Professor of Political Science, McMaster University
Recent Māori ward plebiscites indicate that while institutional reforms for Indigenous representation are vital, meaningful change isn’t possible without broad public understanding and trust.
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By Damien Joly, CEO, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, University of Saskatchewan
Since first being detected in Newfoundland in 2021, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI A(H5Nx), has had a dramatic impact on North America.
The poultry industry has suffered the most, with almost 15 million birds dying or being culled to control the virus in Canada. The Supreme Court of…
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By Victor Kuperman, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University
Nadia Lana, PhD Candidate, Cognitive Science, McMaster University
Olga Parshina, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Middlebury
The language you learn as a child becomes the lens through which you understand the world. A team of researchers from over 30 countries has found it also affects how you read in your second language.
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By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
John Laws was one of the most influential, commercially successful yet polarising figures in the history of Australian radio broadcasting. He has died at the age of 90.
He was among a handful of pioneering presenters who swiftly took advantage of a critical change in the broadcasting laws in April 1967. Until then, regulations enforced by the Postmaster General’s Department and the Broadcasting Control Board prohibited telephone conversations being put to air.
Laws was at the Sydney station…
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