By Linda Botterill, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Bruce Chapman, Emeritus Professor, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
Australia in 2025 is living up to Dorothy McKellar’s poetic vision of a country stricken by “drought and flooding rains”.
The clean up is underway from the deadly floods in the Hunter and mid-north coast regions of New South Wales. At the same time, large swathes of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania are severely drought affected due to some…
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By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia
Abs are one element of the core muscles, so they’re similar in many ways – but the terms are often used with different connotations.
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By Samara McPhedran, Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
A Victorian machete ban raises several questions, including whether there will be exemptions and what other states and territories are doing.
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By Julian Novitz, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
Catherine Chidgey’s thrilling novel, set in an alternative UK under a version of Thatcher, continues her exploration of murky morality and the legacy of Nazi Germany.
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By Carwyn Jones, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Te Kawa a Māui - School of Māori Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
ACT has been trying to pass a version of its Regulatory Standards Bill for 20 years. Opposed by the Waitangi Tribunal and others, it is now poised to succeed.
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By Patrick Finnerty, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in conservation and wildlife management, University of Sydney
Thomas Newsome, Associate Professor in Global Ecology, University of Sydney
By 2050, almost 70% of the world’s population will live in cities – 20% more than today. As cities expand, the natural world around them contracts. Species decline faster in and around cities than almost anywhere else. But what if cities could become part of the solution — places to actively restore biodiversity rather than just areas of loss?
Our new research explores whether reintroducing native animals to cities can restore ecosystems…
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By Ha Nguyen, Senior Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
Francis Mitrou, Professor and Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community Wellbeing, The Kids Research Institute Australia
A damaged home and the psychological stress that comes with living through a major cyclone can prompt people to buy private health insurance.
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By Bjorn Nansen, Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
Imagine you are planning the funeral music for a loved one who has died. You can’t remember their favourite song, so you try to login to their Spotify account. Then you realise the account login is inaccessible, and with it has gone their personal history of Spotify playlists, annual “wrapped” analytics, and liked songs curated to reflect their taste, memories, and identity.
We tend to think about inheritance in physical terms: money, property, personal belongings. But the vast volume of digital stuff we accumulate in life and leave behind in death is now just as important – and this…
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By Elise Stephenson, Deputy Director, Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Australian National University
Blair Williams, Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University
The Labor federal government will be the most diverse in history, driven by the influx of women members who outnumber the men in both caucus and cabinet.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A concrete exercise yard at the Cairns watch-house in which authorities detained children, in Queensland, Australia, 2024. © 2024 Inspector of Detention Services, Office of the Queensland Ombudsman (Sydney, May 26, 2025) - Australia’s reelected Labor government should show national leadership by raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility and ending the incarceration of children as young as 10, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Attorney-General Michelle Rowland. The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has been backsliding from its previous public commitment…
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