The furore over Australia’s international ranking in science, maths and English obscures what we should really be focusing on.
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Australia’s performance in science continues to slide due to ineffective, traditional teaching practices and an outdated curriculum. Here’s what needs to change.
Customers who make purchases under pressure don’t use the usual 10-day cooling-off period given under law, new research finds.
A collaboration of Australia’s leading scientists, clinicians and health organisations announce ten priority policy actions needed for Australia to reach its health targets by the year 2025.
A UK court has allowed a 14-year-old girl’s body to be frozen until doctors find a cure for the cancer that killed her. Is this latest example of cryogenics hope, hype or hell?
When art meets the biological sciences, living matter becomes the medium. From the chaotic beauty of smallpox to poems implanted in bacteria, Bio-art investigates the boundaries of life and death.
Women are underrepresented in the film industry, but it’s not their fault. New research analyses the system that ensures male dominance and identifies the ‘gender offenders’: men who work predominantly with men.
Leonard Cohen, the Jewish-Canadian songwriter has passed away, in this extraordinary week. He will be missed, but not forgotten.
Perhaps more clearly than Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen showed that songwriting can be a literary art. Within his apparently simple words lies a profound sense of playfulness and enigma.
It’s a funny way that I make my living. I spend anything up to 10 hours a day sitting at a desk talking to people with problems. I work in a practice which has set out to develop a culture of sharing triumphs…
Melbourne ranks as the World’s Most Liveable City. But does that tell us what people really love? Lovability is a new approach to city metrics.
Is the risk of a criminal conviction enough to deter scientists from publishing bogus research findings?
Initial experience indicates that private security companies can provide a beneficial service to victims of family violence, but there are still concerns that need to be addressed.
There has been much analysis on the rise of Donald Trump as the result of widespread social and economic unrest, but a look at the primaries shows it to be more of a quirk of the system.
Montaigne anticipated much of modern thought, and was profoundly shaped by the classics. His Essays, so personal yet so urbane, continue to challenge and charm readers.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s proposed changes to Australia’s national environment act will significantly reduce judicial oversight on environmental decisions. Here’s why that matters.
The virtual reality rides of the early 20th century are now being documented in digital VR.
My attention fell this week on the reporting of an article accepted for publication in one of the main journals in my field. According to the ABC, placebo treatments for pain can be effective even when…
Changes that would widen the gulf between Australian practice and international standards should be avoided at all costs.
Ancient poems were accompanied by a musical instrument called the lyre – from which we get the word ‘lyric’. ‘Literature’ and ‘poetry’ are categories of our own making - so moving beyond them in a major award seems long overdue.
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Lecturer, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Nutrition, Deakin University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Anthropology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Co-Director, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Cyber Risk and Policy, Deakin University
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PhD Student in Economics, Deakin University
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), and Acting Director the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Film, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate - School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
