There are deeply concerning social trends playing out in our schools that Australian schools aren’t adequately equipped to deal with. The time is long overdue for actions that will build a whole-of-government response to solve these issues.
With the major awards season over, 2024 is becoming the year for women in music, but a lack of information and knowledge about sexual violence in music spaces and other creative places can dampen this newfound visibility.
Medical faculties globally have been slow to recognise the training needs of the next generation of doctors regarding the health consequences of a heating planet.
In assessing Scott Morrison’s prime ministership, several factors need to be taken into account. On many of them, his record is poor.
The event has prompted questions about the reliability of the state’s electricity grid. But it’s important to note these extreme winds would have seriously disrupted any power system.
As Closing the Gap policy failures are laid bare in the Productivity Commission’s latest report, a new study aims to quantify the gap in Indigenous mental health and economic insecurity.
In the aftermath of a disappointing Voice referendum, Indigenous politicians are looking to the United Nations Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a potential way forward.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial judicial reforms have been dealt a massive blow, with the Supreme Court effectively expanding its authority to oversee legislation, including basic laws.
Domestic violence can increase amid bushfires, but Australia has a poor track record of responding to it. With a hot summer ahead, authorities are warned to prepare.
In less than two years, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gone from clear choice to fighting for majority support in the polls. What happened?
The growing gulf between policy spaces and research communities in Indonesia has been apparent in recent years, as evidenced in the use of a “one-size-fits-all” approach to the enactment of new laws and regulation.
It’s still possible for Australia to cut emissions in line with holding climate change to 1.5°C, but only if we act quickly and seize the enormous opportunities offered in fast decarbonisation.
Life insurance companies can legally use the results of genetic tests to decline coverage or increase premiums. MPs have called for legislation that bans this practice.
Are we becoming more rude, or does it just feel that way? Experts discuess the fundamental aspects of civility and its impact on society.
This Voice referendum slogan wasn’t about facts; it was about emotion. And it targeted some vulnerable groups we don’t talk about nearly enough.
It might sound like difficult terrain, but ideas of nationhood can be progressive as well as regressive, and could help bind Australians ahead of the Voice referendum.
The new premier has a great deal of experience in politics, but inherits the premiership with the state facing a series of major economic problems.
Daniel Andrews’ decision to resign will cause potential challenges for the state Labor Party, and opportunities for the Opposition to become more electorally competitive.
Politicians have cynically used metaphor to imply meaning through language.
Australia has leapt to 26th in the 2023 World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, but we’re still behind countries such as New Zealand and Rwanda.
Australian radio pays between just 10-27% of the commercial rates paid elsewhere in the world, meaning local artists are being considerably underpaid.
Parents wanting to migrate to Australia to join their children face ludicrous delays, and if opting for a paid contributory visa, exorbitant fees.
Reservists’ refusals to serve in Israel’s defence force represents an unprecedented development, with major implications for the army, Israeli society, and possibly the region.
The Victorian government has announced major reforms intended to reduce harm caused by poker machines, but the gambling industry won’t accept these changes quietly.
Dummy text