Australia is seen as a country that does not value musicians the way they are valued elsewhere in the world.
Dry needling and Western acupuncture don’t incorporate traditional chinese medicine philosophies – but may be helpful for pain and releasing muscle tension.
Paying good teachers more sounds like a great idea. The problem is the research on performance pay shows it’s counterproductive – and inflicting it on a system in crisis is terrible timing.
Universal schemes aimed at classifying populations by ‘race’ or ‘ethnicity’ can force us into a game of competing for better positions within a racial hierarchy.
The climate crisis demands innovations in our everyday infrastructures. If these changes are to be adopted en masse, finding the right fit between communities and infrastructures is vital.
Tim Rowse concludes that Paul Daley’s new novel, inspired by true events in Arnhem Land, is fluent and skilfully paced – but doesn’t risk complicating the critical narrative of our colonial history.
Pure Form at the Art Gallery of South Australia brings together some of Japan’s most interesting post-war art.
Mindfulness can have benefits, but it shouldn’t replace first-line treatment, and it shouldn’t claim to be able to.
A warmer atmosphere can hold more water – and that makes floods harder to predict. To help, we improved one common tool used to predict floods.
Boycott actions often do more harm to individual athletes than to the condemned regime.
The gun rights decision from the conservative majority on the Supreme Court signals a fundamental change in how the court reads the Constitution.
An expert explains how reproductive rights are changing globally.
A Supreme Court scholar untangles the ideas that undergird the historic ruling overturning the Constitutional right to an abortion.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Chris Wallace, Professor at the University of Canberra.
Australia’s treasury helped inspire NZ and other governments to adopt well-being budgets – now, years later, we look set to get one too. So what are the challenges ahead?
We found men managed to bounce back quicker after lockdowns ended, in part due to their involvement in sporting and recreational activities.
Hugh White warns of a potential war between the US and China, drawing lessons from the first and second world wars to explore how Australia might respond to such a conflict – and where to draw a line.
Anthony Albanese will be on the international road again next week. He’ll be at the NATO summit in Madrid, where they will discuss Ukraine, China and climate change.
A sore throat is more common with Omicron than Delta, but that doesn’t mean a throat swab will give you a more accurate – or earlier – result.
Our research is countering some previous ideas about what factors might slow down ageing. Further study could help us create targeted treatments in humans too.
