By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
Kevin Staub, Associate Professor in Economics, The University of Melbourne
Nathan Kettlewell, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
New research shows what happens if the extra health insurance rebate for over-65s is scrapped, as planned. Here’s why the sky won’t fall in.
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By Blair Williams, Lecturer in Australian Politics, UNSW
As consistent as her beliefs on race and immigration, Hanson has been championing men’s rights causes for 30 years – at the expense of women.
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By Claire Wright, Senior Lecturer and Business Historian, School of Management, University of Technology Sydney
If we are serious about equality, appointing more women to leadership roles should be accompanied by questioning the model of leadership itself.
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By Bronwyn Reid O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, University of Sydney
Katherin Cartwright, Senior Lecturer Primary Education, University of Sydney
Yes, there appears to be a downward trend in Year 3 numeracy. But the decline is small and not statistically significant.
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By Hannah Schunker, ARC Future Fellow, Physics, University of Newcastle
The Sun doesn’t just fuel almost all life on Earth. It’s also our astrophysical laboratory, the only star close enough to observe in sufficient detail.
This enormous ball of hydrogen and helium is made of plasma – extremely hot, electrically charged gas. The churning of plasma within the Sun produces an invisible magnetic field that envelops our entire Solar System.
Up close, at the Sun’s surface, the plasma is turbulent, dragging the magnetic field with it. It roils and bubbles and occasionally bursts out…
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By Darren Paul Fisher, Head of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University
Spider-Man is famous for many things. Being friendly. Doing what he can. Being responsible with his great power.
Now he’s notable for his latest film, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which had the biggest opening weekend of any motion picture ever, making close to US $1 billion.
So, the question is:…
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By Bronwyn Lea, Professor in Australian Literature and Writing, The University of Queensland
Five Bells is an elegy for Kenneth Slessor’s friend Joe Lynch, an artist who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927 after falling from a ferry.
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By Vera Weisbecker, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
Andrew Iwaniuk, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge
Sara Citron, PhD Candidate in Neuroscience
Dodo skull scans show the famously extinct birds were no less brainy than their surviving relatives – and may have roamed at dusk and dawn.
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By Kelsey Norman, Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Nicholas R. Micinski, Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service
Anti-immigration critics seized on Ceuta migrant situation as evidence of the failure of soft policies, but in reality the bloc has become far more restrictionist in the past decade.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Palestinians wait to cross at the Israeli Awarta military checkpoint on March 23, 2025, south of Nablus in the West Bank. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (Beirut) – Israeli road closures in the West Bank on July 27, 2026, badly delayed an ambulance transporting a pregnant Palestinian woman in critical condition, with dire consequences, Human Rights Watch said today. The woman’s fetus did not survive an emergency delivery, and her life was further endangered when soldiers forced the ambulance crew to turn off their medical equipment…
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