By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Brooke Nickel, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Sean Docking, Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
One big risk is overdiagnosis: the more you test, the more you’ll find. Much of this may be clinically irrelevant, meaning unnecessary follow-ups, costs and anxiety.
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By William Partlett, Associate Professor of Public Law, The University of Melbourne
Australians are rightly happy their democracy has avoided the radical, anti-democratic movements sweeping through the United States and Europe.
But Australian democracy is not safe from threats. One of the most dangerous is the rise of “cartel parties” here in Australia. First identified in Europe, these types of parties seek to monopolise power and keep out new voices from politics.
They represent a fundamental shift in party politics from a system where parties give voice to citizens to one where parties focus on managing and monopolising power. Over time, this managerial…
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By Debjani Ganguly, Professor of Literature, Australian Catholic University
Roy’s portrait of her terrifying yet courageous mother is at the centre of this memoir, which charts her own embrace of danger as an activist-writer.
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By Sarah Wilson, PhD Candidate in Emerging Technologies Governance, Institue for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Rachael Wakefield-Rann, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Whether titanium dioxide is carcinogenic has become a battle in the courts. But it’s a complex scientific question with no firm answer.
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By Chris Thompson, Lecturer in Theatre, Australian Catholic University
Some 25 years after she directed Looking for Alibrandi, Kate Woods’ new family film will make your heart leap with joy.
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By Ryan Herzog, Associate Professor of Economics, Gonzaga University
The US central bank is aiming for its soft landing that avoids recession, but the data and competing policy choices will make it difficult.
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By Brian Hioe
Once the fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea is now almost entirely a desert, having lost more than 90 percent of its surface area since the 1960s.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Policemen and medics help move people from an armored car to an ambulance in the village of Yarova, Donetska region. On September 9, 2025, Yarova was hit by a Russian aerial strike, which killed dozens of civilians. © 2025 Alex Babenko/AP Photo A Russian airstrike on the village of Yarova in Ukraine’s Donetska region on the afternoon of September 9 occurred as a group of older people were waiting to collect their monthly pension payments from a mobile post office. The attack is another abhorrent example of the way Russian attacks are killing Ukrainian civilians…
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By Myra Williamson, Senior Lecturer in Law, Auckland University of Technology
If New Zealand expressly recognises Palestine at the UN next week, it will be a significant – but justified – departure from long-standing foreign policy.
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By Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
Paul J. Becker, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the US. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.
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