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Early childhood education was largely missing from the budget, undermining...
Despite a NZ$1 billion increase in spending on education in the 2024 budget, there was a noticeable absence of any substantial investment in early childhood education (ECE). This contrasts starkly with...
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With all this bird flu around, how safe are eggs, chicken or milk?
AS Foodstudio/ShutterstockRecent outbreaks of bird flu – in US dairy herds, poultry farms in Australia and elsewhere, and isolated casesin humans– have raised the issue of food safety.So can the virus...
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eSafety commissioner drops court effort to force Elon Musk to put...
The eSafety Commissioner has abandoned the legal case to try to force X – formerly Twitter – to remove footage of the April stabbing attack on a Sydney bishop from the platform worldwide. This follows...
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7 graphs that show economic growth near zero as Australia waits for a budget...
The Australian economy came close to a standstill in the first three months of this year. March-quarter economic growth sank to just 0.1%, meaning that, when adjusted for inflation, there was hardly...
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Santos just copped a large fine. What did the oil and gas company do?
noomcpk/ShutterstockSouth Australian oil and gas company Santos has been hit with a A$2.75 million fine for breaching its record-keeping obligations. The Federal Court ordered the fine for Santos...
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End of the line for P&O: why is Australia such a tough market for the cruise...
Slow Walker/ShutterstockMiami-based cruise operator Carnival Corporation has announced it will retire its P&O Cruises Australia brand in March 2025.The decision marks the end of the line for an...
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From immunotherapy to mRNA vaccines – the latest science on melanoma...
Svitlana Hulko/ShutterstockMore than 16,000 Australians will be diagnosed with melanoma each year. Most of these will be caught early, and can be cured by surgery. However, for patients with advanced...
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‘Junk science’ is being used in Australian courtrooms, and wrongful...
Bushko Oleksandr/ShutterstockThe conviction of Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three sons on Father’s Day 2005 is being questioned in the media, with doubts raised about the reliability of...
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Has the tide finally turned for Narendra Modi in India?
Most pundits and exit polls predicted a big win for Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s massive six-week election that just came to a close. They were wrong. Instead, many voters in...
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A strange intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled
ShutterstockWhen astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across the vast expanse of the universe. We call them...
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Elon Musk says he won a battle for free speech in court, but it won’t stop...
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has dropped its Federal Court case against X relating to tweets distributing the footage of the Wakeley church stabbing. In response to the decision, X’s owner,...
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Hydration is really important for learning. How much do kids need to drink?
Mary Taylor/Pexels , CC BYLast month, Ballarat Clarendon College began a trial to ban water bottles in the classroom for students in Years 5 to 9. According to the school, “early feedback” indicated it...
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Solar farms can eat up farmland – but ‘agrivoltaics’ could mean the best of...
Getty ImagesNew Zealand plans to commission about eight gigawatts of solar photovoltaic projects – more than the maximum power demand of the whole country on a typical winter’s day– by 2028, according...
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Super funds are using ‘nudges’ to help you make financial decisions. How do...
song-about-summer/ShutterstockLate last year the federal government announced measuresmake it easier for Australians to access financial advice?As part of this, the government wants super funds to use...
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Yes, carbon capture and storage is controversial – but it’s going to be crucial
VanderWolf Images/ShutterstockRenewable energy sources such as wind and solar are vital tools to help us make cuts to the 36 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases we emit each year.But renewables alone...
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A shocking 79% of female scientists have negative experiences during polar...
Rebecca DuncanEvery day, women are working on frontier science in Earth’s unforgiving polar environments. Our study, published today in PLOS Climate, investigated what their experiences are actually...
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Blade Runner soundtrack at 30: how Vangelis used electronic music to explore...
IMDBIn June 1994 the late composer Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou– better known as Vangelis – released his soundtrack for the 1982 film Blade Runner. It would go on to become emblematic of his...
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‘We cannot simply go, go, go.’ What is girl mossing, the wellness trend that...
Anastasiia Malai/UnsplashOn TikTok and Instagram, people are “girl mossing”: lying on a forest floor, staring up at a leafy canopy or caressing moss. The United States National Forest Foundation even...
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1 in 5 deaths are caused by heart disease, but what else are Australians...
Gualtiero Boffi/ShutterstockNobody dies in good health, at least in their final moments. But to think the causes of death are easy to count or that there is generally a single reason somebody passes is...
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Regenerating Oceania: the ‘unique and unifying’ Festival of Pacific Arts &...
Rows of dancers, bodies attired with natural fibres and adorned with fragrant oils and flowers, move in synchronous harmony. They raise their voices in song and affirm connections across the vast...
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