By Dennis Wesselbaum, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago
Economic growth may have returned to NZ, but lifting living standards will require more than a cyclical recovery. What should voters be looking for in policies?
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By Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, Ph.D. Fellow, Center for Constitutional Democracy, Indiana University
An offensive in the Tigray region followed months of aerial strikes by the Ethiopian government. The situation could spark a wider regional conflict.
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By Alan Renwick, Professor of Democratic Politics, UCL
Andy Burnham has announced a national commission on electoral reform, and made a commitment to put changing the voting system in Labour’s next general election manifesto.
The implication seems to be that he wants to enact reform without a referendum. That aspiration is understandable. The UK last held a referendum on the voting system in 2011, when the coalition government put the Alternative Vote (AV) system on the ballot paper. As research has shown, reformers can fairly argue that…
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By Armin Alimardani, Senior Lecturer in Law and Emerging Technologies, Western Sydney University
Melissa Porter, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Wollongong
Warwick Gullett, Professor of Law, University of Wollongong
Three years ago, researchers tested AI on real Australian law exams and it struggled. They wanted to know if this is still the case.
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By Viva Hammer, Distinguished Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Australia is on track to have more deaths than births by the 2060s. Other countries grapple with the same problem. Are they doing better than us?
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By Phil Brewer, Professor in Plant Biology, La Trobe University
In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, crops have been killed by drought and frost.
Severe frosts have destroyed food crops such as taro, sweet potato, bananas and sugarcane, leaving some local communities scrambling for food.
El Niño is producing similar conditions as previous frosts – including those of 1972, 1997–98 and 2015–16 – that left…
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By Luke Steller, Associate Researcher, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW
Albert Fahrenbach, Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, UNSW
Martin Van Kranendonk, Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW
Ribose molecules came to Earth in meteorites and eventually became key parts of RNA. But how they survived in between has been a mystery.
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By Krystal Gagen-Spriggs, Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
Libraries are turning to social media to connect with their communities – with brilliant, often hilarious results. On the way, they’ve launched some unlikely stars.
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By Catherine Campbell, Lecturer, Performing Arts, Adelaide University
An estimated 4.3 million people tuned in to watch Kylie Minogue’s AFL Grand Final show on Saturday. But how many gave a thought to the people working backstage to make sure everything went exactly to plan?
During these grand spectacles, if you peek off to the side of the stage, or up to the small room overlooking the auditorium, you might spot the…
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By Kunhao Yang, PhD researcher in EU Law, European University Institute
The US and China have extended their trade truce till January. Meanwhile, EU-China export/import imbalances persist with sticking points, including voluntary export curbs and industrial policy reform.
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