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Buried kelp: seaweed carried to the deep sea stores more carbon than we thought
Loredana Caputo/ShutterstockDeep in the ocean lies the world’s largest active carbon reservoir, which plays a pivotal role in buffering our planet’s climate. Of the roughly 10 billion tonnes carbon...
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Who really was Mona Lisa? More than 500 years on, there’s good reason to...
A Mona Lisa painting from the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, held in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.Collection of the Museo del PradoIn the pantheon of Renaissance art, Leonardo...
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Thieves, needlewomen, Aboriginal warriors and a ten-year-old boy: the free...
Hobart from Old Wharf by John Skinner Prout, (1844).Allport Library and Museum, State Library of TasmaniaEmma Cotton (or Cotterell) sailed into Sydney harbour on the Rubicon in 1833 as a free...
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Norway, Spain and Ireland have recognised a Palestinian state – what’s...
Getty ImagesNorway, Spain and Ireland will formally recognise the state of Palestine today (May 28). While 143 of the 193 United Nations member states already recognise Palestine, this is a significant...
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No, sugar doesn’t make your kids hyperactive
Sharomka/ShutterstockIt’s a Saturday afternoon at a kids’ birthday party. Hordes of children are swarming between the spread of birthday treats and party games. Half-eaten cupcakes, biscuits and...
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‘Play well, win well’: new Australian sports chair Kate Jenkins faces...
The Australian Sport Commission (ASC) has appointed Kate Jenkins as its new board chair, replacing Josephine Sukkar, who was the first female chair appointed to the ASC board in 2021. As a lawyer and...
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Mad Max: Fury Road was a pioneering portrayal of disability. Furiosa is a...
Warner Bros. PicturesFuriosa, the latest instalment of the Mad Max franchise, has arrived a decade after the release of George Miller’s groundbreaking reboot Fury Road (2015). As we demonstrated in our...
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What causes landslides? Can we predict them to save lives?
A devastating landslide struck several remote villages in the mountainous Enga province in Papua New Guinea late last week.While it is too early for official confirmation, estimates place the death...
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Cate Blanchett, like most Australians, thinks she’s middle class. An expert...
Cate Blanchett, whose net worth is estimated at A$140 million, has described herself as “middle class” – unwittingly unleashing a furore.How could someone in a highly powerful, elite echelon of society...
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Rethinking roads as public spaces – what NZ cities can learn from Barcelona’s...
Shutterstock/StanislavskyiNew Zealand is one of the most car-centric countries in the world. With the exception of the capital Wellington, New Zealand cities have some of the highest rates of car...
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Changing native vegetation laws to allow burning on private land is good fire...
Bushfires cause catastrophic biodiversity loss across Australia. In the Black Summer of 2019–20 alone, 103,400 square kilometres of habitat went up in flames. The irony is, laws to protect native...
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From Mary Poppins to Winnie the Pooh, Richard Sherman wrote the soundtrack of...
Walt Disney songwriter Richard M. Sherman, who has died aged 95, wrote some of Hollywood’s greatest film musical songs and brightened the days of children, parents and school teachers around the world....
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Australia’s new consent campaign gets a lot right. But consent education...
Daniel Thomas/UnsplashThe Australian government has recently launched Consent Can’t Wait, a campaign focused on supporting sexual consent communication between adults and young people.Advertisements...
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Replanting trees can help prevent devastating landslides like the one in PNG...
More than 2,000 people are now feared dead after a huge landslide buried a village in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Australia’s nearest neighbour. Rescue efforts are being stymied by the fact the...
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Stand by for a pay rise on top of a tax cut. Here’s why things will feel...
Pormezz/ShutterstockAt the moment, things look awful.The latest Bureau of Statistics count of retail spending (spending online and in shops) released Tuesday shows we spent less in April than in...
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Catching public transport in Queensland will soon cost just 50 cents. Are...
haireena/ShutterstockAs part of a six-month trial, public transport fares in Queensland will soon be slashed to just 50 cents per trip for everyone. The cheap fares will apply to all trips on buses,...
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View from The Hill: Albanese says cabinet ‘crafting an offer for the second...
A few days ago, after yet more early election speculation, the prime minister was indicating he plans to run full term, which would put the election in May next year, with another budget before it. On...
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Is Australia a racist country? We asked 5 experts
Over the weekend at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, high-profile political journalist Laura Tingle told the audience Australia is a racist country, and always has been. It prompted widespread media...
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NZ Budget 2024: the coalition needs a circuit breaker – the National Party...
When finance minister Nicola Willis stands to deliver her first budget tomorrow, it will be a significant moment for her personally, but also for the coalition government, and her own National Party in...
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Australia is getting a new digital mental health service. Will it help?...
Surface/UnsplashIn this year’s budget, the federal government announced one of the biggest changes to the mental health system in nearly two decades: a digital early intervention service to relieve...
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