For Australia’s national climate plans to be meaningful, they need to include an orderly phase-out of its fossil fuel exports ...

Mis- and disinformation have once again been named the top global risk of the immediate term in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025. This comes just days after Meta ...

We’ve just lived through the world’s hottest year on record, as well as the hottest decade on record. And yet, we keep building our cities out of materials that get incredibly hot during heatwaves – ...

Education does not just impart information; it shapes who we are and who we might be. Since 2010, the Australian Curriculum has included an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures ...

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 ...

Australia’s young adults are putting their traditional steps towards adulthood on hold – spending more time living in the parental home. In fact, just over half of young men (54 per cent) and 47 per ...

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 Victorian government’s recent announcement that it’s aiming to build 800,000 new houses in a decade might seem very ambitious, but it aims to address a very serious problem. Housing supply in ...

What if I asked you, what is your favourite food? Can you pick just one? Now what if I asked you, WHY is it your favourite? “Easy” – you’d probably say, “because I like the way it tastes”. But could ...

Australia’s Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has published its findings. And it’s a damning read. Various unnamed individuals are referred for potential civil or criminal investigation, but ...

Monolithic in scale and nature, Melbourne’s 47 public housing towers have become aging assets that present great challenges to the state government of Victoria. This has been amplified by Australia’s ...

In Australia, the corporal punishment of children is legal. In all states and territories, parents or carers are permitted to punish children using physical force with the intent to cause some degree ...