Returning sport to our schools after COVID

As the school year begins, the call for more children to participate in organised sport has never been louder – but problems that sports organisers face are compounded by indifference from parents, in addition to worries about COVID-19 restrictions.

Whose Australia day?

Australia will not be comfortable celebrating its national day until we have greater racial understanding, based on truthful retelling of history, but we can be encouraged by our growing multicultural cohesion.

The secret of solar success

A new study shows how researchers at The Australian National University achieved a world record in solar cell efficiency by using cheap and easy to manufacture perovskite cells.

To bee or not to bee?

Insects around the world are in catastrophic decline, a disaster exemplified by a new study noting the disappearance of wild bees in South America.

Life expectancy is starting to slide

Life expectancy gain is slowing in Australia – and figures show these figures are already sliding backwards in both the US and UK – yet little is being done by policy makers to understand specific gender and inequity reasons why this slip is occurring.

How Silicon Valley elites view the world

The 100 richest information technology entrepreneurs see the world in similar meritocratic, self-affirming and self-serving terms, according to an analysis of their own official and unofficial statements.

The GAP Summit on Australian resilience

The final report from ‘A Vision for Australia 2020’ GAP Summit, released today, examines the issues of national resilience and ways to safeguard Australia against future threats.

Strengthening Australia’s cyber-defences

After China launched a series of cyber-attacks on Australian targets and Russia established a beachhead in some Australian networks, the Australian government stands at a crossroads in terms of cyber-security.

China’s COVID origins cover-up

The Chinese Communist Party continues to resist attempts to investigate the origins of COVID-19 and persecute citizens who told the truth about it, while pushing falsehoods through its worldwide media machine.

Fight for the future

A loss of biodiversity and accelerating climate change in the coming decades coupled with ignorance and inaction is threatening the survival of all species, including our very own, according to the experts from institutions including Stanford University, UCLA, and Flinders University.

One black summer

The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires were a “wake up call” demonstrating the extreme effects of climate change in Australia, according to a group of experts who’ve published a new study examining the factors that caused the disaster.

COVID has increased trust in government and science

New Curtin University research has found a dramatic increase in people’s trust in government in Australia and New Zealand as a result of the COVID pandemic.