Dare to care

From childcare to aged care, Australia needs an integrated plan to deliver safer, more affordable care for all Australians who need it.

Hijacking Heyek

In his new book, historian Quinn Slobodian explores the “neoliberal roots of the populist right”.

Australian AI helps detect early signs of disease

Researchers at Edith Cowan University have developed an AI system that could help medical professionals detect and diagnose early stage cardiovascular disease, diabetic eye complications, and cancer.

The best of frenemies

Australia’s alliance with the USA remains fundamental to our security, despite the Trump administration’s best efforts to undermine America’s allies and enable its enemies.

The case for urban agriculture

Urban agriculture should be treated as a serious farming method to help meet the global ambitions of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, according to Flinders University researchers.

Legends of the sea

In an age of mounting concern about our relationship with the oceans, in which we are having to radically reassess our control over and influence on the natural world, it is perhaps time for this history to resurface.

Conspiracy nation

A new book demonstrates how fringe narratives about significant events can metastasise online, undermining our already fragile shared understanding of reality.

150 years of moral panic

The current cultural panic about masculinity is just the latest incarnation of a long-standing debate about the role of men in society.

Drone wars

The Russia-Ukraine war has ushered in a new era of warfare defined by low-cost, commercially available drones that challenge the dominance of traditional military hardware. As FPV drones and remote strike capabilities reshape combat strategy and battlefield ethics, the line between warfighting and video gaming grows increasingly blurred.

How male grievance fuels radicalisation and extremist violence

Social extremism is evolving in reach and form. While traditional racial supremacy ideologies remain, contemporary movements are now often fuelled by something more personal and emotionally resonant: male grievance.

Australia’s tobacco war

High taxes on cigarettes and restrictions on vapes have seen an explosion in illegal sales and an outbreak of gang warfare on Australia’s city streets, so what is the solution?

Segal’s antisemitism plan goes awry

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may be rueing what seemed a good idea at the time – the appointment of a special envoy to combat antisemitism and another to combat Islamophobia.