By Ignazio Cabras, Professor of Regional Economic Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
English pubs will receive a 15% discount on their business rates from April this year. The government deal, which also applies to music venues, follows a backlash from landlords who were facing a steep increase in their tax bills.
Some industry campaigners have said the support package – worth around £1,600 per pub – will allow landlords to breathe a sigh of relief. Some opposition politicians think it doesn’t go far enough.
Either way, it’s been a tough few years. High energy costs, inflation…
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By Brittany Johnson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
Alexandra Manson, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
Rebecca Golley, Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, Flinders University
A new study looks at what parents want in school lunch programs. And how much they would be willing to pay to support them.
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By Lakshini Gunasekera, PhD Candidate in Neurology, Monash University
Elspeth Hutton, Head, Headache Service Alfred Health & Monash Neuroscience Headache Group, Monash University
For some people, changes in routine and diet – along with heat, glare and dehydration – may make migraine flare. Knowing your triggers can help you prepare.
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By Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
The past three years have been the world’s hottest on record. In 2025, Earth was 1.44°C warmer than the long-term average, perilously close to breaching the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5°C.
This warming is fuelling Australia’s current record-breaking…
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By Shane Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Edith Cowan University
You might say you have a “bad memory” because you don’t remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely recall the surface temperature of the Sun any time when asked.
So, is your memory bad, or just fine? Memory is at the very heart of who we are, but it’s surprisingly complex once we start looking at how it all fits together.
In fact, there’s more than one type of memory, and this determines how we recall certain facts about the world and ourselves.
How do we classify…
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By Patrick Flanery, Chair in Creative Writing, Adelaide University
Julian Barnes, author of 14 previous novels, ten volumes of nonfiction, and three collections of short stories under his own name, plus four crime novels under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh, has announced that his new novel, Departure(s), will be his last. The narrator – who both is and is not Barnes – tells us this directly and the information has accompanied advance notice from his publisher. This kind of framing necessarily invites the reader to judge the book as a…
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By Oscar Bloomfield, PhD Candidate in Film Studies, Deakin University
The Safdie brothers films are known for their antiheroes. Marty Supreme is particularly unlikeable – but the audience champions him all the same.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Budapest mayor Gergely Karacsony, center, addresses participants at the Pride march in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 28, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Rudolf Karancsi This week, prosecutors filed criminal charges against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organizing the city’s 2025 Pride march. They are seeking a criminal fine and proposing the case be decided without a trial. The mayor’s prosecution is another example of the erosion of the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms in Hungary.The charges follow a Budapest police ban on the June 19,…
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By Niloofar Hooman, PhD candidate, Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University
What began on Dec. 28 in Iran as a revolt against economic hardship and the collapse of the national currency quickly spread across dozens of other Iranian cities and provinces. People from diverse socioeconomic, religious and ethnic…
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By Oliver Taherzadeh, Assistant Professor, Environmental Economics, Leiden University
Who grows our food? This seemingly simple question is getting harder to answer in a world where our food crosses borders to get to our plate.
As countries increasingly rely on food imports, the mention of distant countries on our food labels is commonplace. Today, only one in seven countries are food self-sufficient across key food groups. So to understand who…
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