• Health

    ReNeuWell


    Open Forum |  June 18, 2025


    Researchers from NeuRA and UNSW Sydney have launched a new app aimed at boosting the wellbeing and resilience of adults. ReNeuWell helps people to shift the focus from managing distress to actively promoting mental flourishing, offering a neuroscience-backed, personalised approach to mental health.


  • Space

    Do look up


    Open Forum |  June 18, 2025


    The space economy presents new investment opportunities as commercial space resource ventures grow, but investors must assess the risks and regulatory challenges involved as well as the potential for profit.


  • International

    The big picture


    Alex Bristow |  June 18, 2025


    The current conflict between Israel and Iran war highlights the danger of a piecemeal approach to statecraft, as calls for an immediate ceasefire disregard the much greater danger posed by Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.


Latest Story

  • Drone wars

    Erik Davis     |      June 17, 2025

    Australia continues to weigh the value of spending billions of dollars on submarines which might take decades to procure when the immediate development of cheap drones might be far more effective.

  • Sport for all

    Konstantine Panegyres     |      June 17, 2025

    There’s nothing new about our modern love of playing and watching sports, with ancient depictions of ball games dating back into antiquity.

  • All the slop that’s fit to print

    Open Forum     |      June 17, 2025

    An ever greater percentage of the news that people consume is generated by AI, rather than people.

  • Funding small business innovation

    Colette Southam     |      June 16, 2025

    Innovation isn’t confined to the headquarters of big tech companies and university laboratories. Small and medium enterprises are a powerhouse of economic growth in Australia but can struggle to secure the investment they need to turn big ideas into commercial products.

  • Taming cyclones

    Open Forum     |      June 16, 2025

    Seeding clouds with aerosols could hold the key to stopping potentially destructive cyclones in their tracks, according to a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University.

  • The age of revolutions

    John West     |      June 16, 2025

    Fareed Zakaria’s new book explores how periods of rapid economic and technological change often unleash cultural anxiety and political backlash.

  • Labor’s productivity puzzle

    Stephen Bartos     |      June 16, 2025

    Higher productivity has quickly emerged as an economic reform priority for Labor’s second term but it remains ‘hard to measure and difficult to shift’.

  • Australia’s cottage defence industry

    David Uren     |      June 15, 2025

    Australia’s defence manufacturers are essentially a cottage industry, with the average supplier employing only 13 people and achieving net annual sales of about $2.2 million.

  • Boosting internet resilience

    Jocelinn Kang     |      June 15, 2025

    Without a unified approach that connects submarine cable protection to terrestrial fibre, power, cooling and workforce planning, we risk compounding vulnerabilities and missing economic growth opportunities.

  • Stop talking, start punching

    Open Forum     |      June 15, 2025

    Australia must stop talking about being a middle power that punches above its weight. Talking about it is far less interesting to the rest of the world than Australia actually doing it.

  • Businesses must invest in productivity

    John Hawkins     |      June 14, 2025

    Rather than blame their workforce, or wait for more government handouts and initiatives, businesses must invest in productivity improvements for themselves.

  • Trump’s Pacific own goal

    Alan Tidwell     |      June 14, 2025

    The second Trump administration’s gutting of key international development agencies has severely undermined its ostensible goal of combating Chinese influence in the Pacific, so what can it do to repair its regional strategy?