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Worried about your trees after the windstorms? Here are 7 signs you might be...
Winter has ended dramatically across Australia’s southern states, as fierce winds and storms usher in spring. Over the weekend, intense winds from a powerful cold front brought down trees, damaged...
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After working for the RBA for 30 years, here’s how I’d make it more accountable
How can we tell if the Reserve Bank of Australia – which sets the interest rates that shape our national and household budgets – is doing a good job?That’s partly what the Albanese government set out...
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Is still water better for you than sparkling water?
Brent Hofacker/ShutterstockStill or sparkling? It’s a question you’ll commonly hear in a café or restaurant and you probably have a preference. But is there any difference for your health?If you love...
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View from The Hill: Australians don’t need to be told high interest rates are...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers mightn’t have expected his weekend comment – made ahead of expected low growth figures later this week – that interest rate rises were “smashing” the Australian economy to set...
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Brazil just banned X. Could other countries follow suit?
Authorities in Brazil, the country with the world’s fifth largest number of internet users, have banned the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter).The ban came into effect over the...
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Locking up young people might make you feel safer but it doesn’t work, now or...
ShutterstockThis article contains information on deaths in custody and the violence experienced by First Nations people in encounters with the Australian carceral system. It also contains references to...
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Australia needs tradies and materials to build the power grid of the future....
Shutterstock As Australia’s electricity supply shifts to clean energy, a big challenge is looming. How do we “keep the lights on” as big coal plants close, and a far-flung network of wind and solar...
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First Nations people are 3 times more likely to die on the road. Here’s how...
totajla/ShutterstockLast year, more than 1,200 people died in road crashes across Australia. But not all Australians face the same level of risk on our roads.Government data across five states and...
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Flu shots play an important role in protecting against bird flu. But not for...
PeopleImages.com - Yuri A/ShutterstockA current strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has become a global problem. The virus has affected many millions of birds, some...
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Narcolepsy is reduced to a punch line in pop culture. What does that mean for...
Courtesy of PrimeWhat do you know about narcolepsy?As a rare sleep disorder, you might not have heard much about it, or if you have, your perception may have been formed by the limited portrayals in...
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When is a good time for a child to start music lessons?
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock, CC BYThere are many reasons a child should learn a musical instrument. Not only does it give them the opportunity to make music, a significant body of research points to...
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How do you make a giant gold nugget? Take a vein of quartz, add a few...
Bjorn Wylezich / ShutterstockHumanity’s fascination with gold stretches back thousands of years. Gold mining is described in ancient Greek and Roman sources, and gold rushes – especially in the 19th...
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‘The pāua that clings to the sea’: a new species of abalone found only in...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, CC BY-SAIt has long been suspected that a small pāua (known as abalone, ormers or ear-shells overseas) found around a remote island chain north of Aotearoa New...
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Sex, plants and colonisation: reclaiming botany from the tendrils of empire
The field of plant-humanities includes botany, taxonomy and plant evolution on the one hand, and literature, law and the arts on the other. Recent publications have covered botanical histories,...
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Bold climate action benefits more than just the environment – it’s also great...
Hryshchyshen Serhii/ShutterstockAs the world grapples with the intensifying challenges of climate change, businesses are under increasing pressure to take action. To avert catastrophe, this will have...
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After being wowed by Olympic athletes in Paris, it’s time to take notice of...
The Paris Olympics have been and gone but memories of the athletes’ achievements will live on, from Mondo Duplantis breaking his own pole vault world record for the ninth time, to Sifan Hassan winning...
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‘Be your own hero’: why video games are a battleground in the US–China tech war
Blockbuster Chinese video game Black Myth: Wukong sold more than 10 million copies within days of its release last month, and its success has been hailed as a soft-power win for the Asian superpower....
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Explainer: the governor-general is also commander-in-chief of the defence...
Australia’s new Governor-General, Sam Mostyn, recently said that she does not fit the usual idea of a governor-general – especially the type of person we expect to see as the commander-in-chief of the...
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Heartbreak has turned to rage in Israel. Can Benjamin Netanyahu survive the...
Israelis are once again venting their anger over the failure of the government to reach a deal to release the hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken...
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Remembering Jack Hibberd: the revolutionary playwright who heard Australia,...
For Jack Hibberd, writing plays came from an “geographical accident”. As a young medical intern in the 1960s, he “fell in with the bohemian” Carlton Melbourne milieu that saw something in his poetry...
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