By Jen Webb, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
Debra Adelaide’s new book, When I Am Sixty-Four, is a complex, devastating and often funny love letter to her friend, the late Gabrielle Carey.
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By Katherine M. Robertson, PhD student, The University of Melbourne
Holly Kirk, Associate Professor & ARC Industry Fellow, Urban Ecology, Curtin University
Jacinta Humphrey, Senior Research Fellow in Urban Ecology, The University of Melbourne
Sarah Bekessy, Professor, Industry Laureate Fellow, The University of Melbourne; RMIT University
Parks are vital public spaces. This is especially true if you’re a parent with energetic children, or an office worker searching for a peaceful lunch spot.
But parks are also ideal environments for infectious diseases to spread, particularly through critters who carry harmful pathogens. This is because, unlike other public spaces, they are designed to connect humans and nature.
There’s a long list of diseases that may be found in parks. They range from those caused by direct…
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By Rand Low, Associate Professor of Quantitative Finance, Bond University
It’s famously the asset investors flock to in a financial storm. But over the past few months, the gold price has been on a roller coaster ride – and now plummeted.
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By Margaret Murray, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Swinburne University of Technology
Cheap, quick and simple, this dish overcomes many barriers young people say stop them cooking at home. But what about the nutritional content?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People wave Japanese flag in Tokyo, January 27, 2026. © 2026 Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, said on March 17 that they would present a law forbidding the desecration of the national flag during the ongoing Diet session.Currently, Japan’s penal code only makes it a criminal offense to damage foreign flags, which the two parties described in their October coalition agreement as a “contradiction” that they pledged to “correct.”For Takaichi, passing…
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By Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Continuing his war against what he calls “fake news”, the US president is hobbling journalists and media outlets he considers to be hostile to him.
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By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the United States has ruled.
The Los Angeles jury took nearly nine days to reach its verdict in the landmark case brought by a woman known as KGM against social media platforms. It awarded US$3 million (A$4.3 million) in damages, with Meta (owner of Instagram) being 70% responsible and Google (owner of YouTube) 30%. The jury later…
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By Amanda George, Assistant Professor (Psychology), University of Canberra
Jeroen van Boxtel, Associate Professor, Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Canberra
Marjan Aslan, Lecturer in Marketing and Service Management, University of Canberra
Ram Subramanian, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science & Technology, University of Canberra
Roads and cars have safety benchmarks. But once a driver gets a licence, they don’t get objective feedback about their road use.
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By Susan Baidawi, Associate professor, Monash University
Across Australia, there is growing concern about young people not offending independently but allegedly being recruited, coerced and manipulated by adults into committing crime. Recent examples include:
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By Kimberley Reis, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Griffith University
This shock to our food system is not the first, and won’t be the last. A focus on band-aid solutions that prop up the current system undermines long-term resilience.
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