• Environment

    Palaeo-conservation


    Lachlan Gilbert |  April 27, 2024


    Novel rewilding projects by scientists, ecologists and conservationists could give hope to critically endangered animals around the world fresh hope of survival.


  • Climate Change

    The end of the ice


    Annie Foppert |  April 27, 2024


    In 1897, the former whaling ship RV Belgica left Antwerp in Belgium on first voyage of what would become known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. As so many ships before, it became trapped in polar ice, at a location which is now open water.


  • Society

    The war on women


    Danielle Cave |  April 27, 2024


    A spate of murderous attacks on women around Australia has heightened calls for the Australian government to establish a Royal Commission into gender-based violence.


Latest Story

  • Embracing business vulnerabilities

    Mariano Heyden     |      August 25, 2020

    With COVID-19 exposing the fragility of our companies, the best-placed will be those with CEOs who understand the shortcomings, and the measures for managing them.

  • Could the new ‘tech tax’ save journalism?

    Open Forum     |      August 25, 2020

    Australia could be the first country to support journalism by diverting profits from Facebook and Google using competition law.

  • Beware disinformation around COVID vaccines

    Elise Thomas     |      August 24, 2020

    Policymakers, media outlets, social media platforms and vaccine manufacturers should be aware that politically motivated disinformation is only likely to increase as the race for a Covid-19 vaccine intensifies.

  • COVID-19 and Australian aid in the Pacific

    Terence Wood     |      August 24, 2020

    Above and beyond the COVID crisis, if Australia really wants to help the Pacific, it needs to be a global citizen. Australia can afford to increase its aid budget as aid currently represents less than one per cent of federal spending.

  • New frailty index could improve aged care outcomes

    Open Forum     |      August 24, 2020

    A new frailty index using historical data from more than 900,000 older Australians could improve aged care and health outcomes for vulnerable older people.

  • The martyrdom of Alexei Navalny

    William Partlett     |      August 23, 2020

    As protests in Belarus continue, the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny shows that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is equally afraid of losing his iron grip on power.

  • How can businesses build trust between humans and AI?

    Victoria Tichá     |      August 23, 2020

    With companies increasingly handing decisions over to AI, tech giants like Google and Microsoft have to navigate the ethical challenges posed by machines.

  • Industrial policy won’t cure COVID woes

    ANU Editorial Board     |      August 23, 2020

    COVID-19 has seen governments unleash a fresh wave of industry policy as politicians abandon markets to boost their preferred industries, but it may end up doing more harm than good.

  • Complying with Victorian guidelines on using recycled water

    Max Thomas     |      August 22, 2020

    Major amendments to Victoria’s Environment Protection Act are expected to be passed in 2021, and this paper offers professionals and others a standard method for calculating infrastructure requirements in agricultural water recycling proposals.

  • Why who gets to tell Australian stories matters

    James Arvanitakis     |      August 22, 2020

    As a democratic society, we are reliant on a strong and representative fourth estate to balance power relations and hold the powerful to account. In a multicultural society, only a more inclusive approach will lead to greater relevance to the population.

  • Crazy like a flying fox

    Open Forum     |      August 22, 2020

    New research led by scientists at Western Sydney University and published in BMC Biology shows that flying-foxes are always on the move among a vast network of roosts, creating key challenges for their management and conservation in Australia.

  • Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Beyond the constant growth economy

    Mark Nicol     |      August 22, 2020

    A conscious policy of global depopulation may be the only way to ensure a sustainable human future, in partnership with a radical retooling of the economy to preserve, rather than consume, the Earth’s resources.