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The Conversation Australiaby Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra29d ago
Pauline Hanson declared in a recent News24 documentary: “I don’t back down”. This week Hanson and her party followed through, in two high-risk demonstrations of heels firmly dug in.
The Conversation Australiaby Therese N. Hopfenbeck, Professor in Educational Assessment, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne29d ago
Results from the latest international test of 15-year-olds have prompted another round of headlines suggesting there are serious problems with Australia’s academic results.
The Conversation Australiaby Hamish McKenzie, Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute29d ago
After months of gas industry pushback, the federal government has made sensible changes to its much-vaunted gas reservation policy.
The Conversation Australiaby Edward Jegasothy, Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney29d ago
The federal government has introduced a new bill to parliament intended to make it easier to prosecute people involved in the illicit tobacco trade.
The Conversation Australiaby Vivienne Lewis, Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Canberra29d ago
Rib contouring – a cosmetic procedure aimed at creating a smaller, more defined waist – is one of the newer appearance trends on social media.
The Conversation Australiaby Veronique Paris, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medical Entomology, The University of Melbourne29d ago
Warmer weather has arrived and mosquitoes will be buzzing about before you know it. As El Niño is expected to bring an early start to summer heat, it’s likely mosquitoes will make their presence...
The Conversation Australiaby Marian Sawer, Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University29d ago
This week, the Coalition released a policy it promised would “protect and defend our national day, our national flag and our war memorials”.
The Conversation Australiaby Lisa French, Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University29d ago
In the 1950s and 60s, artists, writers and musicians were drawn to the islands in the Aegean, including Australian writers George Johnston and Charmian Clift, who took up residence on the Greek...
The Conversation Australiaby Adam Cohen, Senior Lecturer, Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney29d ago
On Friday morning in Melbourne, close to 100,000 people will cram into the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) for the first National Football League (NFL) game ever to be played in Australia.
The Conversation Australiaby Andrew Cullen, Senior Research Fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne29d ago
OpenAI has announced one of its unreleased artificial intelligence (AI) models has found an answer to one of the biggest open questions in mathematics, the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem.
The Conversation Australiaby Chris Zomer, Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, Deakin University29d ago
On Tuesday, the Australian federal government announced a long-awaited amendment to the Online Safety Act, outlining a digital duty of care to protect Australians from preventable online harms.
The Conversation Australiaby David Sanderson, Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW29d ago
In the aftermath of the devastating flash floods in Nepal on August 26, the immediate priority was to save lives and meet the urgent needs of victims.
The Conversation Australiaby Paul Moon, Professor of History, Auckland University of Technology29d ago
With New Zealand’s 11th election under the MMP proportional system due in November, it’s easy to take the influence of minor parties for granted.
The Conversation Australiaby Salene Schloffel-Armstrong, Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Environment, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau29d ago
After nearly a decade and with a budget of NZ$5.493 billion, expectations for Auckland’s City Rail Link are high ahead of its September 13 opening.
The Conversation Australiaby Bill Collins, Adjunct Professor, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University29d ago
Some 550 million years ago, the Earth looked very different to what it does today. The Southern Hemisphere was dominated by an enormous, single continent known as Gondwana.
The Conversation Australiaby Roger Papke, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Florida29d ago
Humans everywhere use mind-altering substances, from stimulants and narcotics to hallucinogens. Yet surprisingly little is known about how some psychoactive drugs were first discovered and...
The Conversation Australiaby Nina Hillenberg, Senior Lecturer, Design, Torrens University Australia29d ago
For most Australians and New Zealanders, IKEA is where you go for a BILLY bookcase, Swedish meatballs and a trolley full of purchases you never intended to make.
The Conversation Australiaby Michelle Gossner, Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia29d ago
As cost-of-living pressures increase and the rental crisis worsens, many families are moving houses more often.
The Conversation Australiaby Sally Coggins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Diseases and Treatment of Cats), University of Sydney29d ago
As a veterinarian who studies infectious diseases in cats, I’ve been repeatedly asked whether Australia’s outbreak of the H5 bird flu poses a risk to pets. The short answer is yes.
The Conversation Australiaby Ali Abbasi, Sessional Academic and Researcher in Media and Communications, University of Sydney29d ago
What does economic pressure on Iran look like? On social media, people are documenting it one receipt at a time. A washing machine. A bag of groceries. A packet of chips.
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