• Education and Training

    NAPLAN scores survived the COVID closures


    Katie Miller |  November 11, 2024


    A new study co-authored by researchers from UNSW Business School and University of Sydney suggests that Australian students’ NAPLAN scores remained stable despite the COVID lockdowns, but the social and psychological effects of the long-lock downs are less certain.


  • Media

    Finding a cure for “digital flu”


    David Grimes |  November 11, 2024


    Misinformation spreads like a virus online, but this model also offers hope for countermeasures such as ‘prebunking’.


  • Human Interest

    To live


    Shiori Shakuto |  November 11, 2024


    Japan, like Australia, has an ageing population so what can we learn from the ways that Japanese men and women handle the changes and transitions of later life?


Latest Story

  • Falling jab rates raise concerns

    Open Forum     |      October 30, 2024

    Vaccination coverage rates among children in Australia have declined for the third consecutive year according to the latest annual vaccination report from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance.

  • Should a young person’s vote count for more?

    Kim Angell     |      October 29, 2024

    To most people, the idea of ‘one person, one vote’ is sacrosanct, but could a case be made that in certain circumstances, some voters should have more of a say?

  • Building back better

    Antonia Settle     |      October 29, 2024

    We need to increase the resilience of Australian homes as insurance will only be affordable if risk exposure is reduced.

  • Nature positive legislation required

    Open Forum     |      October 29, 2024

    A team of Australian researchers is calling for urgent reforms to the nation’s environmental laws to meet the Federal government’s ambitious nature-positive commitments.

  • Can pre-schools cut youth crime?

    Jacqueline Allen     |      October 28, 2024

    A new evaluation finds that preschool programs can cut the number of young people appearing before the courts by more than 50% and the right types of family support can reduce the chances of children committing crimes even further.

  • Reading together

    Open Forum     |      October 28, 2024

    Research suggests that reading groups, in which people from all walks of life meet regularly to read and discuss literature, can provide the kind of meaningful social connections which alleviate loneliness, particularly as we age.

  • Getting more teachers in schools

    Open Forum     |      October 28, 2024

    Teaching needs to be made more attractive to a wider pool of graduates to tackle shortages in the profession, according to new international research comparing 18 countries.

  • Pacific nations will ‘not sit quietly’ on climate change

    Liam Moore     |      October 27, 2024

    How can Australia offer itself as the partner of choice in the Pacific while continuing to explore for, extract and export coal and gas?

  • Triple threat

    Bill Wyman     |      October 27, 2024

    It seems incredible that a failed pro-Putin President with a string of criminal convictions and an attempt to overthrow American democracy itself under his belt may still be re-elected to power, so what might explain Trump’s apparently impervious appeal to his cult followers?

  • The moral shock of war

    Michael Pezzullo     |      October 27, 2024

    Going to war is an uneasy and difficult compromise for democratic nations, forcing us to balance our love of peace and our conscience against the risk of being coerced and subjugated by authoritarian aggressors.

  • Can treaties end the war in Ukraine?

    Open Forum     |      October 26, 2024

    A peace treaty ending Russia’s disastrous war against Ukraine will be hard to draft because Russia has never declared war, despite waging more than a decade of aggression against its democratic, western-leaning neighbour.

  • The biggest game in town

    Open Forum     |      October 26, 2024

    The global health impact of commercial gambling is worse than previously understood and stronger regulatory controls are needed, according to a new Lancet Public Health Commission report.