Labor likely to win Eden-Monaro; Andrews's ratings fall in Victoria
Labor's Kristy McBain Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.AAP/Lukas CochAt Saturday’s Eden-Monaro byelection, Labor’s Kristy McBain currently leads the Liberals’ F...
The world endured 2 extra heatwave days per decade since 1950 – but the worst is yet to come
ShutterstockThe term “heatwave” is no stranger to Australians. Defined as when conditions are excessively hot for at least three days in a row, these extreme temperatur...
VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Melbourne cluster outbreaks, Australia's defence spending, and the Eden-Monaro byelection
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Paddy Nixon and Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including the Eden-Monaro byelectio...
Why some people don't want to take a COVID-19 test
Jane Williams, Researcher at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), University of Sydney
Last week, outgoing chief medical officer Brendan Murphy announced all returned travellers would be tested for COVID-19 before and after quarantine.Some were surprised testing was not already required. Others were outraged some 30% of returned travellers in hotel quarantine in Victoria had declined to be tested.This week, Victorian premier Daniel...
Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia
Dimitris Siskopoulos/Wiki commonc, CC BY-SALet’s turn back the hands of time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the “Great Dying” extinction wiped out 95% of all organisms – we had the Paleozoic Era.During this age in Earth’s history, between 541 million and 252 million years ago, arthropods...
Hong Kong activists now face a choice: stay silent, or flee the city. The world must give them a path…
Sipa USA Willie Siau / SOPA Images/Sipa UIn recent days, the prime ministers of the UK and Australia each declared they are working toward providing safe haven visas for Hong Kong residents. In the US, lawmakers passed a bill that would impose sanctions on businesses and individuals that support China’s efforts to restrict Hong Kong’s...
Victoria's coronavirus contact tracers are already under the pump. What happens next?
ShutterstockThe emergence of significant community transmission of COVID-19 in Melbourne over the past week is greatly concerning to the whole of Australia.Earlier this week, Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton said the state was struggling to cope with the volume of contact tracing required for more than 2,500 people in...
China's push into PNG has been surprisingly slow and ineffective. Why has Beijing found the going so tough?
Peter Parks/Pool/EPAChinese activity in Papua New Guinea was not the only factor behind Australia’s Pacific “Step-Up”. As a former high commissioner to PNG, I know it followed serious deliberations about Australia’s overall strategic imperatives in the region. But China’s engagement with our nearest neighbour was in...
Labor likely to win Eden-Monaro; Andrews's ratings fall in Victoria
Labor's Kristy McBain Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.AAP/Lukas CochAt Saturday’s Eden-Mona...
Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne05-07-2020
The world endured 2 extra heatwave days per decade since 1950 – but the worst is yet to come
ShutterstockThe term “heatwave” is no stranger to Australians. Defined as when condition...
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW04-07-2020
VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Melbourne cluster outbreaks, Australia's defence spending, and the Eden-Monaro byelection
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Paddy Nixon and Professorial Fellow M...
Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra04-07-2020
The US has bought most of the world's remdesivir. Here's what it means for the rest of us
Dimitri Karastelev/Unsplash, CC BYTo beat the coronavirus pandemic, countries need to collaborate. W...
Barbara Mintzes, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney04-07-2020
Why some people don't want to take a COVID-19 test
Last week, outgoing chief medical officer Brendan Murphy announced all returned travellers would be ...
Jane Williams, Researcher at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), University of Sydney04-07-2020
Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia
Dimitris Siskopoulos/Wiki commonc, CC BY-SALet’s turn back the hands of time. Before extinctio...
Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell, Post-doctoral researcher in Palaeobiology , University of New England04-07-2020
Hong Kong activists now face a choice: stay silent, or flee the city. The world must give them a path to safety
Sipa USA Willie Siau / SOPA Images/Sipa UIn recent days, the prime ministers of the UK and Australia...
Brendan Clift, Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne04-07-2020
Victoria's coronavirus contact tracers are already under the pump. What happens next?
ShutterstockThe emergence of significant community transmission of COVID-19 in Melbourne over the pa...
Gerard Fitzgerald, Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology04-07-2020
China's push into PNG has been surprisingly slow and ineffective. Why has Beijing found the going so tough?
Peter Parks/Pool/EPAChinese activity in Papua New Guinea was not the only factor behind Australia&rs...
Ian Kemish, Former Ambassador and Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland04-07-2020
Why Bernard Collaery's case is one of the gravest threats to freedom of expression
Lukas Coch/AAPAfter a lengthy delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, the legal case that constitutes...
Spencer Zifcak, Allan Myers Chair of Law/Professor of Law, Australian Catholic University04-07-2020
The Top 4 Benefits Of Using An Industrial Roofing Contractor
As a business owner, you’re always trying to save money here and there, that can be spent elsewhere in the business, and a lot of the jobs that …
Explainer: what's the new coronavirus saliva test, and how does it work?
A cornerstone of containing the COVID-19 pandemic is widespread testing to identify cases and prevent new outbreaks emerging. This strategy is known a…
45,000 renewables jobs are Australia’s for the taking – but how many will go to coal workers?
Dan Himbrechts/AAPAs the global renewables transition accelerates, the future for coal regions has become a big worry. This raises an important questi…
Defunding arts degrees is the latest battle in a 40-year culture war
The government’s recently proposed restructure of university fees would see students pay 113% more for many humanities subjects.The package is n…
Friday essay: need a sitter? Revisiting girlhood, feminism and diversity in The Baby-Sitters Club
Kailey Schwerman/NetflixThe Baby-Sitters Club, the popular series by Ann M. Martin, defined my childhood. I collected the books until I was 11. I play…
Did a tragic family secret influence Kate Sheppard's mission to give New Zealand women the vote?
Kate Sheppard (seated at centre) with the National Council of Women in Christchurch. 1896.The family of pioneering New Zealand suffragist Kate Sheppar…
We looked at the health star rating of 20,000 foods and this is what we found
ShutterstockAs you read this, health officials are busy finalising the government’s review of the health star rating system on packaged foods.On…
The spending splurge matters, regardless of what modern monetary theory says
ShutterstockThe Australian government is planning to spend A$190 billion to support the economy in response to COVID-19, according to the latest Parli…
Vital Signs: Stamp duty is an economic drag. Here's how to move to a better system
ShutterstockFor all the things we don’t know about COVID-19 one thing is certain: our economic recovery will depend on boosting productivity. Ev…
Curious Kids: what does the Sun's core look like?
Artist's interpretation of the inside of the Sun.James Josephides, CAS Swinburne University of TechnologyWhat does the Sun’s core look like? Sop…
Grattan on Friday: Saturday is crucial for Albanese but July 23 is more important for Morrison
Just under two years ago, Anthony Albanese was expectantly awaiting the “Super Saturday” byelections. Of the five contests, the outcomes i…
Joy Hester – a body of work, remembered at last
Joy Hester at Fitzroy Gardens, 1942. Albert Tucker/State Library of VictoriaI have been thinking a lot lately of how many worlds there are contained i…
The Daily Telegraph lost its Geoffrey Rush defamation appeal. What does this mean?
Bianca De Marchi/ AAPSydney newspaper the Daily Telegraph has lost its appeal against a defamation decision that awarded actor Geoffrey Rush almost A$…
Border closures, identity and political tensions: how Australia's past pandemics shape our COVID-19 response
Tensions over border closures are in the news again, now states are gradually lifting travel restrictions to allexcept Victorians.Prime Minister Scott…
Politics with Michelle Grattan: two leading economists on Australia's post-COVID economy
With three months before JobSeeker is due to end and calls for billions of dollars in extra spending, there is a growing debate about how Australia&rs…
Lockdown returns: how far can coronavirus measures go before they infringe on human rights?
DANIEL POCKETT/AAPAs of this morning, ten “hot spot” postcodes in Melbourne’s suburbs have gone back into Stage 3 coronavirus lockdo…
Alert but not alarmed: what to make of new H1N1 swine flu with 'pandemic potential' found in China
ShutterstockResearchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potential” in China that can jump from pigs to humans, trigger…
Reddit removes millions of pro-Trump posts. But advertisers, not values, rule the day
On Monday, online discussion platform Reddit permanently took down its largest community of Donald Trump supporters, r/The_Donald.The community had mo…
In a first discovery of its kind, researchers have uncovered an ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed
S Wright, Author providedFor most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land wher…
Victoria is on the precipice of an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak. Will the new measures work?
I recently wrote about Victoria’s surge in COVID-19 cases. On that day, Victoria recorded 11 new infections, after a few days of new cases in th…
Stopping koala extinction is agonisingly simple. But here's why I'm not optimistic
ShutterstockOn Tuesday, a year-long New South Wales parliamentary inquiry revealed the state’s koalas are on track for extinction in the wild by…
In My Blood It Runs challenges the 'inevitability' of Indigenous youth incarceration
In My Blood It Runs/ABCAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains references to deceased people.In 2019, Dujuan H…
We developed tools to study cancer in Tasmanian devils. They could help fight disease in humans
ShutterstockEmerging infectious diseases, including COVID-19, usually come from non-human animals. However our understanding of most animals’ im…
UniSuper take note: there's no retirement on a dead planet
ShutterstockHESTA, the industry super fund for health and community workers, plans to dump its shares in thermal coal mining companies.Beyond that, it…
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Buy from the best 4x4 wheel shop Australia
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Are you looking to buy 4x4 wheels online Australia? You should buy from the best 4x4 wheel shop Australia. 4x4 wheels are better than 4x2 wheels that have been popularly used since the past. In the current scenario, we see 4x4 wheels are growing in popularity for its benefits. Vehicles that have 4x4 wheels perform better than 4x2 wheel ones. Th...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Free Chat Roulettes
Since the beginning of the 2000s, the chat roulette format has experienced several stages during which its popularity grew incredibly fast. The number of such websites and platforms is huge. Millions of people all over the world use video chats every day to meet and chat. Some people simply spend time while others are looking for new friends or even a soulmate. Classic chat roulettes were ini…
How Casinos Improve the Economy
When most people think about online casinos, they think fun and games, but any state official knows about several economic benefits. It is all about gains for the economy through increased tax revenues and even income for youngsters that are now earning a living through turning to gambling. With stringent measures on age cap and licensing, most governments have made gambling legal to turn a …
Is a Will Valid After Divorce? Here's What You Need to Know
50% of Australians lack a valid will. They, therefore, lack control over their property and estates once they die. Most individuals with wills tend to forget about it as soon as they sign them. It is crucial to know the circumstances under which will’s validity can be tampered with. For instance, the effect of divorce on the initial agreement is crucial information that should not be overloo…
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