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The Conversation Australiaby Dennis Wesselbaum, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago14d ago
As New Zealand heads toward a general election, political parties are setting out their priorities and candidates are making their pitches, all hoping to focus on the issues they believe will...
The Conversation Australiaby Tania Ahmed, Honorary Postdoctoral Associate, Macquarie University14d ago
Astronomers have catalogued billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets orbiting stars.
The Conversation Australiaby John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland14d ago
The title of global strategist Viktor Shvets’ book, The Twilight Before the Storm, aptly describes our current situation.
The Conversation Australiaby Aliza Werner-Seidler, Professor and Program Lead in Adolescent Mental Health at the Black Dog Institute; Clinical Psychologist, UNSW14d ago
By the time an Australian student is 15, they will have already spent as many as 11,000 hours at school. Many formative social and emotional experiences occur at school.
The Conversation Australiaby Kristyn Harman, Professor in History, University of Tasmania14d ago
Convictism “left a stain” on Australia’s penal colonies “which time alone will be able to efface”, according to the South Australian Register newspaper in 1856.
The Conversation Australiaby Ara Cho, Research fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland14d ago
Australia has some of the world’s highest cigarette prices. Smoking half-a-pack a day costs about A$7,000 to $12,000 per year at prices of around $38–66 a pack in the legal market.
The Conversation Australiaby Neophytos Georgiou, Lecturer and Research Fellow, College of Human Sciences and Culture, Flinders University14d ago
Recent media reports have suggested neo-nazis in Australia may be actively trying to recruit autistic young men.
The Conversation Australiaby Anastasia Powell, Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University14d ago
Last week was another tragic week of domestic and family violence. In New South Wales three women were killed, allegedly by men known to them, in three separate incidents on a single day.
The Conversation Australiaby Renee Barnes, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of the Sunshine Coast14d ago
The Victorian election is still months away, yet voters are already being shown events which never happened.
The Conversation Australiaby Christoph Nedopil, Industry Professor, Business School, The University of Queensland14d ago
For decades, China’s market of 1.4 billion people and extraordinary economic growth gave Australian exporters seemingly endless opportunities.
The Conversation Australiaby Danny F Hill, Assistant Professor Finance, Providence College15d ago
One of the biggest cheating scandals in world sports history has erupted in England: Manchester City has reportedly been found guilty of 114 of the 115 alleged breaches of English Premier League...
The Conversation Australiaby Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne17d ago
In Nate Silver’s aggregate of national polls, Donald Trump’s net approval has dropped to a new record low of -23.
The Conversation Australiaby Niusha Shafiabady, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University17d ago
In the wake of yesterday’s news that an OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s Medicare system earlier this year, some people have pointed to the incident as evidence that Australia needs to develop its...
The Conversation Australiaby Lily Whelehan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland17d ago
How does the type of music affect plants growth? – Thomas, 14, Auckland, New Zealand When I’m in the lab studying my plants, I love to listen to music.
The Conversation Australiaby Dan Smale, Principal Technician Atmosphere, Earth Sciences New Zealand17d ago
The area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole peaked at more than 27 million square kilometres in September, the second-largest ever observed for this time of year.
The Conversation Australiaby David McCooey, Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University17d ago
In his lifetime, Les Murray (1938–2019) was often associated with contradiction and tension. He was seen as both Australia’s national poet and a reactionary who was out of step with modern...
The Conversation Australiaby Matthew Firth, Research Fellow in Medieval History, Flinders University17d ago
When King Æthelred II came to the English throne in 978 CE as a child of around ten, England had enjoyed decades without major Viking attacks. That respite was short-lived.
The Conversation Australiaby Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, Adelaide University17d ago
Every September, Australian Football League (AFL) fans are told the same thing: the grand final is the hardest game of the year – faster, fiercer and more brutal than the matches that came before...
The Conversation Australiaby Jodie Grigg, Research Fellow, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University17d ago
When many Australians think of heroin, they picture the steep increases in use and harms of the 1990s.
The Conversation Australiaby Vibhu Arya, PhD Researcher, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney17d ago
From October 1 this year, businesses will be banned from adding a surcharge when customers pay with a debit, credit, EFTPOS or prepaid card.
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