• Health

    Healthy minds need healthy bodies


    Open Forum |  December 13, 2024


    Higher cardio fitness in older age may preserve several core aspects of our mental ability that are vulnerable to age-related decline, according to international researchers, who say this holds true irrespective of key factors for mental decline including age and high-risk genetics.


  • Science and Technology

    Body power


    Open Forum |  December 13, 2024


    A QUT-led research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for batteries. This technology could also be used to cool electronic chips, helping smartphones and computers run more efficiently.


  • Business

    The grey area


    Open Forum |  December 13, 2024


    A new study from the University of Adelaide has revealed key markers that influence how commercial behaviour is perceived by courts, clarifying the line between legal and illegal conduct in commercial law.


Latest Story

  • The Pacific’s stable instability

    Blake Johnson     |      December 12, 2024

    Despite the recent dissolution of parliament in Vanuatu and motions of no confidence in Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Solomon Islands, political instability in the Pacific isn’t significantly increasing. It just feels like it.

  • Is this all there is?

    Susan Moore     |      December 12, 2024

    Australians are retiring later than ever, but extended life expectancy means that a new sense of purpose is required alongside financial security to make the next stage of life worth living.

  • Shallow promises

    Eva Maximova     |      December 12, 2024

    Pacific states are turning to deep-sea mining for economic reasons, despite the economic costs ​of​​ oceanic pollution ​associated with ​mining​​ ​in the long-term.

  • The burning question

    Greg Barton     |      December 11, 2024

    The recent spate of attacks and hate crimes against Jewish people in Australia – the latest of which struck Woollahra in Sydney last night – demands a faster and more resolute response from the authorities.

  • Curbing car emissions

    Robin Smit     |      December 11, 2024

    Australian’s lack of car efficiency standards – and long-standing fondness for ponderous UTES, massive SUVs and clunkers with modified exhausts – mean our transport emits far more carbon than it should.

  • Labor pledges 3 days of free child care

    Michelle Grattan     |      December 11, 2024

    Anthony Albanese will promise a re-elected Labor government would guarantee three days of subsidised child care without people having to undertake an activity test.

  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi

    Dominic O'Sullivan     |      December 10, 2024

    As New Zealand’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill goes to a Parliamentary Select Committee Hearing it’s worth considering whether te Tiriti o Waitangi really does undermine liberal democracy as the Bill’s proponents say.

  • Firebugs

    Open Forum     |      December 10, 2024

    Arson, rather than climate change, is the direct cause of around 40% of Australia’s bushfires,but prevention of deliberately lit conflagrations is mostly absent from emergency, public health and climate action plans.

  • Remaking healthy cities

    Jinhee Kim     |      December 10, 2024

    Australia drifted away from the Healthy Cities movement it helped start. It can still get back on track.

  • Albanese must step up on anti-Semitism

    Michelle Grattan     |      December 9, 2024

    Labor has been lukewarm in its condemnation of anti-semetic attacks and vandalism but despite the temptations posed by an approaching election, the parties need to unite behind combatting this scourge before social cohesion is further undermined.

  • After Assad

    Ali Mamouri     |      December 9, 2024

    With its Russian and Iranian allies stretched and distracted elsewhere, a swift assault by rebel forces has brought about the humiliating fall of Syria’s brutal Assad regime.

  • Tomorrow’s Army today

    Marcus Schultz     |      December 9, 2024

    The head of Australia’s army, Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, has laid out his vision for a more effective and accountable service.