• The four waves of feminism

    Open Forum     |      March 15, 2024

    Feminist history is generally packaged as a story of “waves”, the first lasting from the mid-19th century to 1920. The second wave spanned the 1960s to the early 1980s. The third wave began in the mid-1990s and lasted until the 2010s and some say we are experiencing a fourth wave in the online age of today.

  • Does long COVID exist?

    Open Forum     |      March 15, 2024

    Long COVID may be no different to other post-viral syndromes, according to Australian research which found that people who tested positive for COVID-19 a year ago were no more likely to report moderate-to-severe functional limitations than people who had influenza.

  • Encouraging female leadership in health care

    Open Forum     |      March 12, 2024

    Cultural change is needed to increase the number of women in healthcare and medical leadership in Australia, according to Australian researchers.

  • Red for danger

    Open Forum     |      March 11, 2024

    Australia refused to send a warship to help protect commercial shipping from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, but our unwillingness to help the international coalition does not mean we are immune from the effects on our supply chains.

  • Nurses call for more nurses

    Open Forum     |      March 11, 2024

    The Australian College of Nursing is calling on the Government to fund a major national campaign to promote a positive image of nursing to boost recruitment and retention.

  • Fixing aged care workforce shortages

    Open Forum     |      March 8, 2024

    The federal government must lift pay and improve housing affordability to fix the critical workforce shortage in aged care, according to Catholic Health Australia.

  • Medicalising menopause

    Open Forum     |      March 7, 2024

    Some doctors and all pharmaceutical firms would love to redefine the menopause from a natural change experienced by all women to a medical condition half a life time of expensive drugs could ‘treat’, but should they be medicalising menopause?

  • The ocean detectives

    Open Forum     |      March 7, 2024

    The longest science voyage yet by CSIRO research vessel RV Investigator has returned to Australia with one of the most comprehensive datasets ever collected in the Southern Ocean.

  • People, get ready

    Open Forum     |      March 6, 2024

    A new online platform aims to better prepare communities for disasters with the use of community sourced data, resource mapping and artificial intelligence tools.

  • Predicting the present

    Open Forum     |      March 6, 2024

    How do the brains of cricketers, racing drivers and tennis players react so quickly to events in the heat of competition? Scientists may now have more clues.

  • The key to early learning

    Open Forum     |      March 6, 2024

    The key to boosting a child’s cognitive and emotional development lies in promoting an active interest in topics or activities, Griffith University researchers have found.

  • Health economics

    Open Forum     |      March 5, 2024

    Health economists must play a key role in decision making to improve the efficiency of local hospitals and health networks if Australia wants better results from the $180 billion dollars spent every year on healthcare services.