The Victorian government’s decision to reject a second Melbourne injecting room earlier this year provoked a polarised public debate, but one voice was largely missing in the media coverage.
While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.
People living with disability are disproportionally affected by climate change-induced disasters, which is why we need more disability-inclusive decision-making in climate adaptation plans.
Victoria has announced new teaching resources to tackle the influence of “manosphere” figures among students, but we still don’t have a clear picture of sexism and harassment in our schools.
Low awareness of the link between heat and eco-anxiety in Indonesia requires a more comprehensive strategy in the campaign.
As more cases of the virus emerge outside Africa, there are significant concerns about its potential to escalate, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
Ambitious home energy upgrade programs aimed at improving energy efficiency face several key questions and challenges if they’re to succeed.
Nudge theory is used in many sectors, but can be particularly helpful in getting people to actively engage in decisions affecting their savings and investments.
Why have successive Australian governments found it so difficult to truly embrace the country’s potential to become a clean energy superpower?
Ransomware has become a rising threat within government, business and academic circles, but there are ways to protect against it.
A new report recommends a shift to a more modern “push model” that emphasises proactive release, with reliance on FOI requests as a last option.
While virality holds values, state actors still hold responsibility for sensing and understanding the inherent problems, and recognising the urgency to address it through differing policy capacities.
Despite being on other sides of the planet, Jakarta and Iowa are staring down similar issues regarding water hygiene and supply.
Australians want government to act on climate change, but not necessarily now, or in their neighbourhood. How can governments resolve this dilemma?
Data showed the view of the Indonesian government wasn’t prominent in news coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The PR industry is being rebadged, but the history it tells omits the key role women have played, and many of its milestones and missteps.
New research shows that for people living with long COVID and intimate partner violence, each was exacerbated by the other and services were inadequate.
A suite of tools is helping scientists “taste” the properties of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean to better-understand why more heat is seeping towards the icy continent.
As a federal government taskforce ponders how to improve the system, a new study focuses on nurses in two Victorian residential aged care homes, and how they feel about and operate in their workplaces.
Trace the increasingly blurred line between man and machine in the world of transhumanism on our “What Happens Next?” podcast.
To create robust and adaptable digital crisis response centres, we need to have a better understanding of how first responders behave and act during a disaster situation.
It appears to have become more prevalent, visible, and possibly also more politicised in post-pandemic times, as general trust in governments and mainstream media declines.
Can legislated obligations improve the way governments consider climate change in their decision-making?
The platform’s handling of harmful content, including disinformation, hate speech and propaganda, has attracted widespread criticism.
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