North Queensland Queensland to all those #Quexiteers: don't judge, try to understand ustheconversation.com - Anne Tiernan and Jacob Deem and Jennifer Menzies Such comments are at the polite end of social media responses from progressive voters in other parts of Australia who were disappointed by the …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are making their voices heardtheconversation.com - Karen Cummings Classical music has traditionally not been a welcoming environment for women composers. Opera Australia’s 2019 season, for instance, features just …
Business (Australia) Sex trafficking's tragic paradox: when victims become perpetratorstheconversation.com - Alexandra Baxter Born in rural Thailand, Watcharaporn Nantahkhum gave birth to her first child at the age of 17. Her father killed himself when she was young, to …
Terrorism Charging the Christchurch mosque attacker with terrorism could be risky – but it's importanttheconversation.com - Keiran Hardy On Tuesday, the gunman in the Christchurch mosque shootings was charged with committing a terrorist act. The new charge came more than two months …
Business (Australia) Cutting interest rates is just the start. It's about to become much, much easier to borrowtheconversation.com - Warren Hogan Australia’s lowest ever Reserve Bank cash rate – 1.5% – is about to be consigned to history. On Tuesday Governor Philip Lowe made it clear that he …
Polling Outrage, polls and bias: 2019 federal election showed Australian media need better regulationtheconversation.com - Denis Muller Two big media-related issues have emerged from the federal election: how opinion polls are reported and the polarisation of the main newspaper groups. …
Australian Labor Party 3 lessons from behavioural economics Bill Shorten's Labor Party forgot abouttheconversation.com - Tracey West The Australian Labor Party’s 2019 election campaign showed a depth and breadth of economic policies rare for an opposition party to present. Its …
Western Australia ‘Bright white skeletons’: some Western Australian reefs have the lowest coral cover on recordtheconversation.com - James Paton Gilmour and Rebecca Green Diving on the remote coral reefs in the north of Western Australia during the world’s worst bleaching event in 2016, the first thing I noticed was …
Play buttonManatees From sharks in seagrass to manatees in mangroves, we've found large marine species in some surprising placestheconversation.com - Michael Sievers and Rod Connolly and Tom Rayner When we think of mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and saltmarshes, we don’t immediately think of shark habitats. But the first global review of …
Mental Health Aboriginal mothers are incarcerated at alarming rates – and their mental and physical health sufferstheconversation.com - Sacha Kendall and Eileen Baldry and Elizabeth Sullivan and Juanita Sherwood and Stacey Lighton Aboriginal women are the fastest growing prison population in Australia. They comprise around one-third of female prisoners in New South Wales, …
Accessibility How close is Sydney to the vision of creating three 30-minute cities?theconversation.com - Somwrita Sarkar and David Levinson and Hao Wu The Greater Sydney Commission has proposed a 40-year vision of a metropolitan region formed of three “cities”: the Eastern “Harbour” City, the …
The Arts (Australia) Hidden women of history: Ennigaldi-Nanna, curator of the world's first museumtheconversation.com - Louise Pryke In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. “It belongs in a museum.” With these words, Indiana Jones, the world’s …
Volcanoes The 'pulse' of a volcano can be used to help predict its next eruptiontheconversation.com - Rebecca Carey Predicting when a volcano will next blow is tricky business, but lessons we learned from one of Hawaii’s recent eruptions may help. Kīlauea, on the …
Julia Gillard Queensland paper backtracks after using violent imagery to depict Annastacia Palaszczuktheconversation.com - Jenna Price and Blair Williams Social media backlash and a Queensland government complaint to the Australian Press Council has forced the Sunshine Coast Daily to apologise to its …
Chris Bowen Bowen carries baggage into Labor leadership contesttheconversation.com - Michelle Grattan Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen is running for Labor leader, despite carrying the baggage of being the architect of election policies, especially on …
China US-China relations are certainly at a low point, but this is not the next Cold Wartheconversation.com - Nick Bisley Trump’s long-threatened trade war with China is now a reality. Beijing has met Washington’s sanctions with retaliatory measures as the world’s two …
Polling Here's how to make opinion polls more representative and honesttheconversation.com - Adrian Barnett and and and and Scott Sisson In 2012, US statistician Nate Silver correctly predicted the results of all 50 states in the US presidential election with 100% accuracy. Compare this …
Play buttonPolitical Advertising After Clive Palmer's $60 million campaign, limits on political advertising are more important than evertheconversation.com - Marian Sawer Can billionaires buy elections in Australia? In the 2019 election, Clive Palmer demonstrated they can certainly flood the print media, airwaves, …
Cyberbullying Teenagers need our support, not criticism, as they navigate life onlinetheconversation.com - Joanne Orlando Imagine you’re a 14-year-old girl on the train on your way home from school, when out of nowhere a “dick pic” appears on your phone. Surprise! You’ve …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) Rockabul, a tale of a metal band in Kabul, reinvigorates the radical spirit of rock 'n' rolltheconversation.com - Ari Mattes It’s an axiom that the effectiveness of documentary typically rests on two things: if its subject matter is interesting, and if we more or less …
Teeth Curious Kids: why do we lose our baby teeth?theconversation.com - Mihiri Silva Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might …
Kids Curious Kids: why do we sigh?theconversation.com - David Farmer Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) After 8 years of memes, videos and role playing, what now for Game of Thrones' multimedia fans?theconversation.com - Eric Forcier and Lisa M. Given As the ash settles upon the smouldering crenels of King’s Landing and a new ruler ascends to the throne, Game of Thrones fans around the world ask … …
Australian Labor Party State of the states: Queensland and Tasmania win it for the Coalitiontheconversation.com - Nick Economou and Ian Cook and Maxine Newlands and Richard Eccleston and Rob Manwaring and Stewart Jackson Our “state of the states” series takes stock of the key issues, seats and policies affecting the vote in each of Australia’s states. We’ll check in …
Business (Australia) Going up. Monday showed what the market thinks of Morrisontheconversation.com - Mark Humphery-Jenner The coalition’s shock victory pushed up the S&P ASX 200 1.7%. The ASX 200 measures the price of Australia’s 200 biggest public companies. The major …
Methane Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate changetheconversation.com - Pep Canadell and Rob Jackson Discussions on how to address climate change have focused, very appropriately, on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly those of carbon …
Business (Australia) 'Do no harm' isn't enough. Why the banking royal commission will ultimately achieve littletheconversation.com - Kevin Davis Will the banking services royal commission have a lasting effect of improving the banking and financial sector? The answer is “no”. A temporary …
Education First-year uni can add 4kg to your weight. Here's how universities can scale that backtheconversation.com - Rajshri Roy Students typically gain weight in their first year of university. There are expressions to reflect this knowledge, such as the “freshman 15” in North …
Nanotech Some of our foods have nano particles in them – should we be worried?theconversation.com - Emma Beckett and Susan Hua We choose to spend money on household items based on how they look, feel and taste, and how we think they might make our lives better. Manufacturers …
Concussion For an unlucky 10% of people with concussion, the symptoms may be long-lastingtheconversation.com - Alan Pearce Concussion is a temporary disturbance in brain function following an impact to the head. It can also occur after a blow to the body, if the force is …
