By David Jones, Sessional Teaching Fellow, School of the Environment and Life Sciences, University of Portsmouth
The reality is that chewing gum is just another form of plastic pollution, but it is not treated as such.
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By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
Andrew van den Hurk, Medical Entomologist, The University of Queensland
Japanese encephalitis spreads via mosquitoes. It has been detected in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs and claimed two lives in NSW. Here’s what you need to know about it.
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By Raseef22
The modern popular hero has shifted from a champion of justice to a figure driven by aggression, mirroring Egypt’s socio-political transformations and the commercialization of violent narratives
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By Dominic Redfern, Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University
Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI.
The work fiercely challenges stereotypes of black femininity and draws upon the history and culture of the Ashanti people of modern-day Ghana, one of the countries most affected by the Atlantic slave trade and the site of remembrance and pilgrimage for many descendants of the people trafficked as slaves.
Serewah…
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By Brendan Walker-Munro, Senior Lecturer (Law), Southern Cross University
The Trump Administration is asking some Australian university researchers about how their work fits in with US foreign and domestic policy.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has announced a Coalition government would introduce legislation, based on an American law used to pursue the Mafia, to enable police to target the “kingpins” of criminal organisations such as outlaw motorcycle gangs.
This follows new allegations by Nine newspapers and 60 Minutes about the rogue union the CFMEU. The allegations include “the employment of ‘baseball-twirling violent people’ on the [Victorian…
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By Sanjib Chaudhary
Nepali photographer and storyteller Nikki Thapa documents the collection and marketing of rudraksha seeds in eastern Nepal, which are used as prayer beads by Hindus and Buddhists.
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By Chris Ogden, Associate Professor in Global Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
As Christopher Luxon meets India’s Narendra Modi, his pledge to secure a trade deal in his first term still looks optimistic. But he can already claim some success.
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By Catie Gressier, Adjunct Research Fellow in Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia
Genetic diversity matters for wildlife – and for the livestock on which we depend. Yet breed after breed is disappearing into extinction.
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By Brigid Magner, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
Signs of Damage is ostensibly a realist novel, it stretches the limits of the genre, introducing psychological and mystical elements.
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