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.
Mike McColl Jones began writing comedy in the early 1960s, and for the next 40 years worked continuously at the epicentre of the Australian entertainment industry through the golden age of television.
In assessing Scott Morrison’s prime ministership, several factors need to be taken into account. On many of them, his record is poor.
Through characters such as Bazza McKenzie, the late comedian promoted Australian vernacular – the witty, the crude, and both – to new audiences.
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has kept poverty and inequality on the policy agenda.
A study of the newspaper’s regular puzzles content reflects what the general public should recognise as common Australian slang terms.
Vladimir Putin has used his belief in the “historical unity” of Russians and Ukrainians to justify his bloody invasion of Ukraine, but it’s a long way from the truth.
A global research platform is tracking internet usage in the Ukraine, and the online impact of the Russian invasion, in real time.
The latest Stella Count numbers have revealed a landmark moment in which women authors have not only reached parity with male authors in terms of books reviewed, but exceeded it.
Think tank A New Approach claims the federal government spent more than $4 billion supporting the arts and culture in 2020 alone. Sadly for the arts, the figure is too good to be true.
This season of Monash University’s 'What Happens Next?' podcast kicks off with a conversation about weight loss. What does science really have to say about it? Should we change how we think about – and therefore talk about – diet, exercise and wellness?
Biometrics technology offers to cut the Gordian knot of passwords, usernames, PIN and QR codes, as well as passports and vaccine cards – but at what cost?
In a survey sure to provoke debate, 66 political scientists and historians ranked Australia’s WWII prime minister John Curtin as the finest leader we’ve had.
We need to find ways to hold platforms responsible for the potential and actual abuses that take place in the online advertising world.
We must move towards the universal protection of the right of LGBTIQ people to live their lives in dignity and equality, regardless where they live in the world.
Sport keeps hitting the headlines for what happens off the field. Experts in sport, gender and media Brett Hutchins and Ruth Jeanes explain why we idolise sporting legends, and why we’re often let down.
Organisations need to optimise the use of digital platforms during and post-COVID-19 to stay connected and engaged with culturally and linguistically-diverse communities.
Priests receiving payments under the federal government's wage subsidy scheme is almost certainly unconstitutional – but unlikely to be challenged.
COVID-19 has forced many people to stay at home, but a Facebook group is allowing millions of its members to connect, and virtually travel internationally.
In this What Happens Next? podcast episode Susan chats to the experts exploring what we could do differently to improve the quality of information and media.
The June closure of AAP will further diminish media diversity in Australia.
Even as the women’s liberation movement and campaigns for equal pay in Australia grew in the '60s, females were being marginalised in trade media.
The ACCC Digital Platforms Report recommends several ways to revive journalism in the social media age, including A$50m in direct grants to local news services.
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