By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
A key commitment at May’s federal election was an A$8.5 billion promise to increase incentives for GPs to bulk bill patients. The government moved quickly after the election, with new arrangements to start on November 1.
When a patient is bulk billed they don’t have any out-of-pocket payment to see a GP. If a patient isn’t bulk billed, the GP can charge an out-of-pocket…
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By Jane Melville, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
Till Ramm, Research Associate, Sciences Department, Museums Victoria Research Institute
In pockets of highlands across Australia’s east lives a shy and secretive lizard. It’s usually reddish grey in colour, with two pale strips running the length of its spiky back. Growing to a maximum of 20 centimetres, it could easily fit in the palm of an adult’s hand.
But although the mountain dragon (Rankinia diemensis) is small, it can teach us big lessons about the influence of climate change on Australian biodiversity, as our new research, published today in Current Biology, demonstrates.
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By Vijay Mishra, Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murdoch University
Kiran Desai’s surname was familiar to the world of literature when her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Her mother, Anita Desai, was already an accomplished novelist, who had been nominated for the Booker three times. The Inheritance of Loss was hailed as a defining example of both the postcolonial novel and the realist novel of the Indian diaspora: Indians living elsewhere, around the world.
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By Matthew Thompson, Lecturer in History and Communications, University of Southern Queensland
With its mixture of bloody costumes and scary themes, it can often feel like Halloween is luring kids into topics they are not ready to grapple with.
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By Alasdair Macintyre, Associate lecturer visual arts, artist, PhD, Australian Catholic University
On a crisp winter evening in 1985, a documentary went to air whose advance advertising promised to scare viewers out of their wits. It didn’t disappoint.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the broadcast of Haunted on Australian television.
Following the success of the 1984 Ghostbusters movie, there was a public appetite for all things spooky.
Over the course of 97 minutes, Haunted documents 14 cases of alleged hauntings across Australia, from Fremantle in the west, to the convict settlements of…
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By Tony Silva, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Emily Huddart, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
What would you say if you were told that paranormal activity exists? Well, nearly half of Canadians would agree.
What is the paranormal, exactly? It refers to phenomena that science cannot explain and are not part of a major religion in a particular society. In contrast, religious phenomena are part of an established doctrine. For example, in Canada, psychic abilities and Bigfoot or Sasquatch are considered paranormal,…
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By Amnesty International
Upon concluding a four-day visit to Ireland in which she met with government officials, civil society organizations and human rights defenders, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, said: “We have acknowledged the Irish government’s longstanding commitment to protecting human rights around the world and urge it to maintain a […] The post Ireland: Government must do more to protect the international justice system and hold Israel accountable appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International calls on the Salvadoran authorities to immediately and unconditionally guarantee the release of community defenders José Ángel Pérez and Alejandro Henríquez, who have been unjustly imprisoned since May 2025 after participating in a peaceful protest in defense of the rights of the El Bosque community. This comes ahead of a hearing scheduled for […] The post El Salvador: Prisoners of Conscience must be released immediately appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Lingshan Li, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
Canada’s climate is warming twice as fast as the global average, and many cities will experience at least four times as many extreme heat events (days above 30 C) per year in the coming decades.
In Québec alone, elevated summer temperatures were associated with about 470 deaths,…
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By Styliani Panetsidou, Assistant Professor of Finance, Coventry University
Angelos Synapis, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance, Centre for Resilient Business and Society, Coventry University
When you think about your environmental footprint, what comes to mind first? Maybe the flights you take, the car you drive or whether you choose the train instead. Perhaps it is the plastic you try to avoid, the clothes you buy or the food on your plate. But what about your money – how often do you think about where it is kept and what it supports?
Banks are a part of our everyday lives. We use them to receive salaries, make transactions, pay bills or take out loans and mortgages. Yet behind every transaction…
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