Cemeteries are running out of space, and cremation damages the environment, but there are other ways we could honour our dead ...

“We’ve been managing the river as custodians from the beginning of time, but governments are not asking us how we did that.” Water justice is a critical issue for Aboriginal people who currently own ...

What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of ‘wage theft’. Wage theft is the popular term that has come to describe “under-or ...

Head, Department of Surgery, Melbourne Medical School – Western Precinct, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne; Acting Head, Colorectal Unit, Western Health; ...

Every employee needs toilets and break facilities, but gig companies don’t provide these, leaving workers dependent on public ...

Monotremes are among the world’s strangest animals, mixing mammalian and reptilian characteristics in the one creature. When British scientists in the 18th Century first saw a platypus they dismissed ...

Have you heard of ‘Flat-Earth education’? It’s a phrase I am using as a provocation to highlight a problem – the unquestioning acceptance of the everyday structures and practices of education, ...

The Alice Springs crime wave gained widespread coverage in the past week. This crime wave and particularly the data on domestic violence assaults draws attention to a contentious issue that goes ...

In 1490, Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from ...

The COVID-19 vaccine is set to roll out in Australia in a few days, but what are the attitudes of Australians to the vaccine and will enough take the vaccine for us to achieve herd immunity? Herd ...

Gender bias is deeply ingrained in hiring and work. In Australia, women on average earn 23 per cent less than men, are less often invited for a job interview and are evaluated more harshly. That AI ...

Giraffe spots have interested researchers and natural historians for hundreds of years, and indeed humankind for much longer. In fact, they are a key feature in early rock carvings, including ...