By Jen Roberts, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
With so many people grieving, the notion of doing so in public was seen as tasteless and vulgar. Funerals became smaller, people put on a brave face in public and fewer people wore black.
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By Cally Jetta, Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead; College for First Nations, University of Southern Queensland
Films about Australia’s efforts in WWI continue to exclude an Aboriginal presence – denying all of us access to their important stories.
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By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University
Australia’s rental crisis has been a long-standing problem and will not be repaired unless there is real reform of both supply and demand issues.
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By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
Australia’s inflation rate has halved, but it’s falling more slowly than it was, and previous high inflation is set to push up student debt.
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By Susan Goldstein, Associate Professor in the SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
Nestlé has been criticised for adding sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries. The Swiss food giant controls 20% of the baby-food market, valued at nearly US$70 billion.
Nadine Dreyer asked public health academic Susan Goldstein why extra sugar is particularly bad for babies and why she thinks multinationals target low-income countries with sweeter products.
Why has Nestlé been criticised?…
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By David Lindenmayer, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Chris Taylor, Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Elle Bowd, Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
Philip Zylstra, Research Associate, University of New South Wales, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
All the evidence – colonial accounts and records, First Peoples’ testimony and scientific data – points to the existence of widespread tall, dense forests 250 years ago.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
With Jim Chalmers’s third budget on May 14, Australians will be looking for some more cost-of-living relief – beyond the tax cuts – although they have been warned extra measures will be modest.
As this week’s consumer price index showed, the battle with inflation has not yet been won. The government can’t afford to have an over-generous budget add to inflation and further delay a pre-election reduction in interest rates.
In this podcast, we’re joined by independent economist Chris Richardson to discuss the budget and Australia’s economic outlook.
Richardson…
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By Gabriela Mesones Rojo
As Venezuela's presidential election approaches on July 28, will the opposition be able to endorse a viable candidate? Will Maduro leave anyone who threatens him electorally out of the race?
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By Edwina Preston, PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
It’s difficult to critique a memoir. How do you critique the work – its language, structure, craft – without feeling you are exposing the author’s life and experiences to critique?
In Melbourne writer Nova Weetman’s Love, Death and Other Scenes, this is particularly difficult. She is writing about losing her much-loved partner of more than 20 years and father of her two children, playwright Aidan Fennessy, to cancer during COVID lockdown in 2020.
It’s also difficult, for me, because many…
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By Simon Wilmot, Senior Lecturer, Film, Deakin University
James Barry, Research Assistant, Anthropolgist, The University of Melbourne
Some of these men went from being indentured pearl divers to soldiers in Borneo. Other fled their home country as teenagers to earn money.
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