• Society

    Labor flunks its test on environmental protection


    Euan Ritchie |  April 19, 2024


    Labor’s failure to fulfill its election promise to reform Australia’s much flaunted environmental protection laws puts their goals of “no new extinctions” and a “nature positive” future for Australia at risk.


  • Culture

    Express your enthusiasm


    Nathan Abrams |  April 19, 2024


    Over its 12 seasons and 120 episodes, Curb Your Enthusiasm became a cult classic, leaving a lasting legacy on television comedy and cementing Larry David’s position as one of the greatest comedy writers of our time.


  • Business

    An eye on Indigenous business


    Michelle Evans |  April 19, 2024


    Indigenous owned and run businesses may be worth billions of dollars to the Australian economy, but despite new research into their scope and activities, we still don’t know enough about them.


Latest Story

  • Reviewing the global threat spectrum

    Alexandra Pascoe     |      October 16, 2020

    While the headlines remain dominated by the problems caused by coronavirus and the turmoil of the American election, a range of other threats and tensions shouldn’t be forgotten.

  • Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – The degradation of the environmentalist movement

    Mark Nicol     |      October 15, 2020

    The protection of our threatened biosphere remains the vital issue of our times, but the modern environmentalist movement is hampered by its lack of moral grounding, and its hijacking by a range of other causes.

  • The long history of scandal in NSW

    David Clune     |      October 15, 2020

    Berejiklian is hardly the first NSW politician to become enmeshed in scandal. Corruption has been ingrained in the state’s political culture since its creation, and is why the Independent Commission Against Corruption remains a vital watchdog over the inner workings of its government.

  • Doing democracy better

    Open Forum     |      October 15, 2020

    University of Canberra researchers from the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance have received a funding boost to monitor “deliberative integrity”, a project which could prove crucial for Australian democracy.

  • Is News Corp bad for democracy?

    Dominic O'Sullivan     |      October 14, 2020

    A strong regulatory code to ensure that news media cover a wide range of political perspectives, assess them independently, and promote informed public debate would usefully complement restrictions on any one company being allowed to dominate the market.

  • Building research capacity for a disaster-resilient Australia

    Paul Barnes     |      October 14, 2020

    Australia needs a networked consortium of teaching universities and regional research centres helping our emergency and disaster management services face the myriad dangers we face.

  • The automation of industrial manufacturing

    John Hamlin     |      October 14, 2020

    The automation of manufacturing though “Industry 4.0” techniques such as robotics and artificial intelligence is set to revolutionise the future of global production.

  • A snap-back in the Paris climate accord?

    Ralph Evans     |      October 13, 2020

    There may not be a “snap-back” in the Australian economy as Covid-19 fades, but one may well happen somewhere else: in the Paris Agreement on climate change.

  • The future of drones

    Ben Knight     |      October 13, 2020

    Drones have entered the mainstream but while there have been welcome advances in agriculture, aerial photography and product deliveries, it’s hard to ignore their less welcome applications.

  • A sweet solution to the sugar problem

    Julie Brimblecombe     |      October 13, 2020

    Away from the glare of metropolitan Australian cities and research centres a unique experiment helped reduce sugar consumption in the far north of the country.

  • COVID survives on surfaces longer than thought

    Cass Erbs     |      October 12, 2020

    CSIRO research shows the virus which causes COVID-19 lasts for 10 days longer than Influenza on some non-porous surfaces such as glass phone screens, stainless steel railings and banknotes.

  • Drought increases threat to global wetlands

    Open Forum     |      October 12, 2020

    University of Adelaide scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands around the world.