By Francisco Perales, Adjunct Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
Ferran Martinez i Coma, Professor in Political Science, Griffith University
Renters account for an increasingly larger share of the adult population. Research analysing more than 25 years of voting data shows what this means politically.
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By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, Adelaide University
You’ve probably heard that hitting 10,000 steps a day is the key to health and longevity.
This magic number feels like a medical rule, handed down by doctors across the globe.
But where did it come from? And is it even true?
Let’s step back to Japan in 1964
Believe it or not, but the infamous 10,000 steps a day recommendation didn’t come from a research laboratory.
In fact, it is not scientific at all.
It came from a Japanese pedometer called the manpo-kei…
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By Oliver Aylen, PhD candidate, UNSW
Katherine Moseby, Professor of Conservation Biology, UNSW
Kylie M. Cairns, Research Fellow in Canid and Wildlife Genomics, UNSW
Rebecca West, Principal Ecologist Wild Deserts, UNSW
We cannot fence the whole of Australia. Therefore, we need to know which species are most at risk from cats.
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By Erik D. Reichle, Professor of cognitive psychology, Macquarie University
A plethora of apps, videos and books say we have the capacity to read at breakneck speed. The science says something different.
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By Allan Blackman, Professor of Chemistry, Auckland University of Technology
From slowly rusting iron to quick crystals, heat packs and hand warmers use simple but clever chemistry to keep you toasty.
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By Richard Scully, Professor in Modern History, University of New England
Robert Phiddian, Professor of English, Flinders University
It is a sad day for Australian cartooning when an artist as good as Fiona Katauskas has not had her contract renewed. But that is what has happened at the Guardian Australia.
Katauskas is among the top daily political cartoonists in the country, with her cheerful visual style beautifully in tension with her salty satirical commentary.
She is at the top…
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By Anna Marie Brennan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato
The reported agreement by Hamas to a “complete disarmament” has renewed speculation about what a future beyond war might look like for Gaza. It has also left many unanswered questions.
Under the roadmap negotiated through US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups would surrender their…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Migrants and asylum seekers gather near the border crossing between Morocco and Ceuta, a Spanish enclave, on July 31, 2026. © 2026 Mario Moron/JNA Press/Sipa USA via AP Photo The arrival of an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people in Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in North Africa, on July 30-31 was not only unprecedented but also tragic. At least 72 people died, including many who drowned while trying to swim from Morocco to Ceuta and others who were crushed while trying to climb a border barrier, according to Spanish authorities.Most who crossed were Moroccan,…
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By Mojtaba Sadegh, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University
John Abatzoglou, Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
Three large wildfires raced through neighborhoods in and around Spokane, Washington, the weekend of Aug. 1, 2026, destroying at least 600 homes and other structures and threatening many more. Tens of thousands of people, including patients at the Veterans Affairs medical center, were forced to evacuate as crews from across Washington and Idaho battled
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Oil well at Perenco’s concession in Democratic Republic of Congo. © 2026 Human Rights Watch A representative of the Congolese Ministry of Hydrocarbons, during an on-the-record interview with Human Rights Watch on July 31, discussed the findings of the government's official environmental audit into the activities of Perenco, the French-British oil and gas company operating in western Democratic Republic of Congo. The audit identified “negative impacts on soil and air quality” linked to oil operations, the ministry official said, adding that “all aspects of pollution…
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