Time for a U turn on COVID?

OzSAGE experts have called on Australian governments to tackle the current COVID crisis by delaying the return to face-to-face schooling, and reinstating necessary infection mitigations and financial supports.

We’ll still need resilience in 2022

Thanks to the pandemic, 2021 was characterised by family, social and financial dislocation, but strengths built through adversity will help us cope individually and collectively in an uncertain start to 2022.

A new lens on Australia’s prehistoric past

A team of Australian and international scientists are investigating an important new fossil site in New South Wales containing superb examples of fossilised animals and plants from the Miocene era.

Arts figures reject cultural boycott at Sydney Festival

More than 120 leaders from the entertainment industry have signed an open letter in support of the Sydney Festival and participating artists after several organisations withdrew after the Israeli Embassy in Australia sponsored a performance by an Israeli dance ensemble.

Lessons for children from 2021

Three educational experts from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education review another year of disrupted education and what we’ll need to do next to ensure children don’t suffer long term impacts from school closures due to COVID 19.

We have liftoff

The $10bn James Webb telescope has left Earth on its mission to view the first stars to light up the Universe and perhaps find signs of extra-terrestrial life.

Covid booms as Christmas looms

With Christmas just days away, COVID-19 cases are hitting never before seen peaks across the country while restrictions are easing in many parts of the country. In this extended article, Australian experts comment on the current situation and what we can do to stay safe this holiday season.

Email can wait to after Christmas

When the holiday season rolls around, will you get to relax, or do you let work creep into your down time?

To have and have not

Almost 90% per cent of Australians believe the COVID-19 pandemic has increased social divides, with an increasing gulf between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’.

Breaking through to the other side

Neuromedicine-assisted psychotherapies are offering new hope in the treatment of mental illness.

Staying food safe this Christmas

Christmas is the season to eat and make merry, but aspiring cooks can ensure a good time is had by all by keeping in mind a few simple food safety tips in their preparations.

New tool tracks national resource footprints

Australian researchers working with the United Nations have developed a tool to drive practical change in the world’s global resource consumption through better understanding how many resources each country consumes.