By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Greens leader Senator Larissa Waters has quit the party leadership in a surprise move due to ill health. Waters, who has been leader since former leader Adam Bandt was defeated at the 2025 election, is managing a “pre-existing kidney disease” that has “declined significantly” in recent months.
A Monday night statement said the prognosis for her recovery was “positive”, but she had decided the demands of the leadership, including extra travel, were incompatible with prioritising her health.
The Greens will determine “the next steps for the leadership this week”, the statement…
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By David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
Felicia Fai, Professor of Innovation & Regional Growth, Co-director of Centre for Governance, Regions and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS), University of Bath
Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy & Regional Development, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regions and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS), University of Bath
Andy Burnham says he wants to change how Britain works. Part of his plan involves shifting power out of London to the regions, in the belief that economic growth for the whole country will follow.
The prime minister refers to this as “rewiring the state”. He has long argued that the UK’s economic challenges cannot be separated from its political centralisation.
And there is plenty of evidence to support this…
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By Stephanie Decker, Professor of Strategy, University of Birmingham
An AI model built by US tech company OpenAI has hacked into the Australian government healthcare portal, Medicare. The news, which emerged on September 23, follows a string of similar incidents reported over the summer by OpenAI and its main rival, Anthropic.
These reports have underscored fears that AI labs may be losing control of their creations. They also helped feed the most recent spate of doomsday…
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By Jason M. Blazakis, Professor of the Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury College
An AI Force would likely push China to create its own. That arms race could turn a technology already slipping out of human control into a weapon.
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By Canan Karakoç, Postdoctoral Scholar in Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bacteria make a survival gamble when they devote all their energy to forming spores. Evolution is quick to get rid of this function, and researchers did the accounting to understand why.
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By Bo Wang, Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Mississippi
All the training data in the world can’t account for every possibility when AI systems interact with people and the environment.
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
College rankings can be consequential for less prestigious and less wealthy schools, giving them visibility they might not otherwise have.
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By Mark J. P. Wolf, Professor of Communication, Concordia University Wisconsin
The games created a new way of experiencing video games by building a 3D world in which events could unfold beyond the player’s line of sight.
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By Audrey Hendricks, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz
Nanette Santoro, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado Anschutz
Capturing data about the timing and symptoms of menopause could help address many unanswered questions about this common yet ignored experience.
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By Megan Kuykendoll, Instructor of Family Science and Social Work, Miami University
When our second child was born, my spouse had several weeks of paternity leave under his parental leave policy at work.
I’m a certified family life educator, and parental leave comes up regularly in my teaching and community work. So I was aware of the benefits his leave could have for our family – in theory.
Still, I could not have imagined how significantly his leave would end up affecting our family and our connections with community.
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