By Samuel Cornell, Honorary Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland
Rob Brander, Professor, UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney
Sharks are front of mind for many Sydneysiders and coastal New South Wales residents. In January, a teenager died amid a spate of attacks in and around Sydney. This month, a woman was bitten by a large great white while swimming close to shore and between the flags at Coogee Beach.
These incidents have made many swimmers and surfers fearful of
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By Jeannie Marie Paterson, Professor of Law (consumer protections and credit law), The University of Melbourne
A legal expert explains the allegations against Amazon Australia and US – and why the new case is already making global headlines.
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By Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe
In the Balkans, tradition is often deemed to be fixed and patriarchal. Yet the region’s history, folklore and popular memory contain more complicated examples of the fluidity of gender roles.
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By Sanné Mestrom, Senior Lecturer, DECRA Fellow, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia annual showcase of leading Australian artists under 35, eight artists turn loss into the labour of making.
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By Mark Cully, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The history of immigration policy in Australia is full of yes-no contradictions: fear jostling with hope, exclusion with openness.
Australia has been pulled in different directions by the strength of its British ties and the demands of its Asia-Pacific geography. The British and their descendants, never meaningfully reconciling with the original sin of having invaded a continent, then constantly added people to it, most of them in their own image.
Writing about the Immigration…
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By Benjamin Wagner, Research Fellow - Forest Resilience and Adaptation, The University of Melbourne
Craig Nitschke, Professor in Forest and Landscape Dynamics, The University of Melbourne
Kaitlyn Hammond, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Northern British Columbia
An alpine ash forest is a sight to behold.
Alpine ash (Eucalyptus delegatensis) is a tall eucalypt species that grows in the cool, wet mountains of south‑eastern Australia.
These forests store large amounts of carbon in their wood and soils. They help regulate water flows into major rivers and dams, and provide habitat for a wide range of birds, mammals and insects.
Mainland alpine ash forests are now formally listed as endangered.…
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By Christopher J. Watterson, Research Fellow, Foreign Policy and Defence, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
The dust has now settled on the ostentatious summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang earlier this month. But perhaps the biggest takeaway was what was left unsaid.
Chinese readouts from the summit conspicuously excluded any mention of denuclearisation in North Korea (meaning North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons). This signals a shift away from a decades-long policy goal of…
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By Reuben Steff, Assistant Professor of International Relations and Security Studies at Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic, University of Waikato
As China projects power further into the Pacific, New Zealand can no longer treat distance as a substitute for defence strategy.
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By Shamila Haddad, Sydney Horizon Fellow (Senior Lecturer) School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
Arianna Brambilla, Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sydney
Jingjing Liu, Research Fellow Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
Mat Santamouris, Anita Lawrence Chair of High Performance Architecture, Professor, UNSW Sydney
Apartments built to today’s standards could be too hot for future comfort for about four weeks a year in Redfern and more than seven weeks in Penrith.
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By Alan Pearce, Professor, Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Health Science, Swinburne University of Technology
Stephen Townsend, Research Fellow, UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland
Yesterday’s harrowing Four Corners episode exposed the devastating impacts of degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and the link with contact sports, primarily Australian rules football.
The report, and similar recent media…
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