By Peter Hobbins, Honorary Affiliate, Department of History, University of Sydney
Her name was Mary Quarantine Chapman.
Seriously.
To the best of my knowledge, Mary is the only Australian named after the experience of being detained to limit the spread of infectious disease.
Today, five Australians and a New Zealander were released from hantavirus quarantine in Western Australia. They had spent the past six weeks at the purpose-built Perth…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People on a prison truck arrive at the Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 17, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Heng Sinith Cambodia’s government is systematically coercing and publicizing confessions from detained political opposition members and activists to undermine their political standing.By compelling the activists to join the ruling party, the authorities seek to discredit them and further cement effective one-party rule.The Cambodian government should drop politically motivated charges, quash unjust convictions, and immediately and unconditionally release…
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By Murat Ungor, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Otago
Olena Onishchenko, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Otago
A recent ruling has clarified how one NZ dollar-backed crypto token fits within financial law. Just what does this mean for investors?
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By Frank Bongiorno, Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address last week reminded us she doesn’t like multiculturalism, she sees immigration as responsible for most of the country’s problems, and she regards the values of some immigrants as inimical to a predominantly “Judeo-Christian society”. She called for “monoculturalism” to replace “multiculturalism”.
These kinds of views are not new for Hanson, nor for Australia. Billy Snedden, who served as Liberal immigration minister (and later Leader), called for a “monoculture” in 1969. The political right’s critique of multiculturalism took off in the 1980s…
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By Alex Polyakov, Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Sarah Lensen, Research Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne
A new study found each extra hour of bending forward at work raised a woman’s miscarriage risk by 36%. But there are reasons to be cautious of this finding.
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By Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
Sigmund Freud’s 800-page book on dreams introduced a new way of thinking about the mind that reverberated through the 20th century.
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By Sally Larsen, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of New England
Emma Rowe, Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University
The largest proportion of students attending private schools in New South Wales is still in major cities. But inner regional areas are catching up.
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By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
One year ago, on July 1 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the Solar System. Detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the object was quickly recognised as something special.
Tearing past at record speed, the comet, known as 3I/ATLAS,…
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By Ajay Narendra, Associate Professor of Insect Neuroethology, Macquarie University
The ballista spider only feeds on extremely fierce green tree ants – so it has evolved sophisticated tools to safely catch its prey.
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By Tom Keel, Associate Lecturer in Property and Real Estate, Deakin University
Ameeta Jain, Associate Professor, Deakin Business School, Deakin University
Builders and homeowners are both paying a price for this myth about sustainability features such as solar panels, insulation and batteries.
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