By Craig Jackson, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology, Birmingham City University
US astronauts Sunni Williams and Barry Wilmore have been stranded in low earth orbit onboard the International Space Station for nine months. They are now finally due to return to Earth. Their planned return from their one week mission was abandoned due to concerns with the return vehicle, the Boeing Starliner-1, and this resulted in them being in space for 290 days.
Wilmore and Williams do not hold the record for the longest stay in orbit, which belongs to cosmonaut Valeri…
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By Eli Sopow, Associate Professor, MBA Faculty of Leadership & People Management, University Canada West
The response from Elon Musk and Donald Trump to outrage about their cuts to the U.S. federal government follows a proven of ‘deny, divert, delay and destroy.’
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By Human Rights Watch
(Washington, DC, March 18, 2025) – The Trump administration’s engagement with Russian President Vladimir Putin should prioritize the release of detained Ukrainian civilians and Russians unjustly held for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and religion, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to US President Donald Trump. “Any discussions about ending the war in Ukraine should address releasing detained civilians and opening pathways to securing justice for war crimes,” said Sarah Yager, Washington director at Human Rights Watch. “Unfortunately, there has been no indication…
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By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
Solar and wind farms make power very cheaply. But power bills are still climbing because we underestimated other costs, from transmission to storage.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
With the polls close to a dead heat, would the Greens push a potential minority Labor government even harder to pursue their agenda?
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By Gabrielle Meagher, Professor Emerita, School of Society, Communication and Culture, Macquarie University
Marianne Fenech, Professor, Early Childhood Governance, University of Sydney
On Monday, an ABC’s Four Corners investigation reported shocking cases of abuse and neglect in Australian childcare centres. This included examples of children being sexually abused, restrained for hours in high chairs, and fed nutritionally substandard meals such as pasta with ketchup.
While acknowledging there are high-quality services operating in the community, the program also showed how centre-based childcare is big business, dominated by for-profit providers, who may not be meeting…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Jim Chalmers has given outline of next week’s budget in speech, promising it would be “a responsible budget which helps with the cost of living.”
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By Marika Sosnowski, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne
A ceasefire may bring a temporary halt to fighting, but as the current conflict in Gaza shows, it doesn’t solve every issue.
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By Christo Atanasov Kostov, International Relations, Cold War, nationalism, Russian propaganda, IE University
Since returning to the White House in 2025, US President Donald Trump has dramatically reshaped US policy toward Russia, adopting a markedly softer stance on Vladimir Putin and the ongoing war in Ukraine. This approach has included cutting military aid to Ukraine, and pressuring Kyiv to accept unfavourable terms to end the fighting.
Trump is also weakening America’s negotiating…
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By Brad Harris, Professor of management, associate dean of MBA programs, HEC Paris Business School
We usually think of workplace deviance as linked to “bad apples”–the troublemakers who egregiously slack off, steal from the company or openly clash with coworkers. But what if deviant behaviour was also more subtle–daydreaming, taking long coffee breaks or cracking an edgy joke in a meeting? It turns out most employees engage in quieter patterns of minor misbehaviours, and it’s changing how we think about deviance on the job.
Traditionally, research has kept deviance in neat boxes: bad behaviours are either interpersonal…
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