The higher the stakes, the more outlandish the claims. And the stakes are high in this year’s Queensland election, with major and minor parties battling it out over employment, environmental and economic concerns in a campaign with no clear front-runner.

Thanks to the support of James Cook University, The Conversation will be on the ground in...

Like or loathe horse-racing, there’s no avoiding Australia’s spring racing carnival.

But the question we are asking is: does the industry need what is called a “social...

There is no exquisite beauty … without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allen Poe’s words have a particular irony for me. I am a woman with achondroplasia dwarfism, or what is commonly referred to as “disproportionate dwarfism”. Individuals with my physicality have arms and legs significantly shorter than the...