While MasterChef might teach us a lot about food and food trends, it also glosses over some of the harsher realities of the industry that produces this food. What’s the secret to its sudden ratings boost?
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania generates powerful and unique ideas and knowledge for the benefit of our island and the world. Through excellent research and teaching, we strive to stimulate economic growth, lift literacy, improve health outcomes for Tasmania and nurture our environment as it nurtures us.
Links
Displaying 781 - 800 of 1087 articles
North Korea does not yet have the capacity to launch a nuclear missile from a submarine. Its recent test, however, suggests it is making progress to a game-changing second-strike capability.
Since 1993, satellites have been used as well as tidal gauges to monitor sea level. A new calibration of this satellite record now shows that the rise in sea level is gathering pace.
While policies such as negative gearing have helped middle to high income earners own property, they have also locked low income earners out of the market and created an unequal housing sector.
If science wants to maintain funding it needs to be more socially relevant, but that will require reforming the metrics we use to judge its success.
Cats and foxes are two of the greatest threats to Australian wildlife. Culling might be one solution, but sometimes culls do more harm than good.
Christine Milne has been seen as an ideological politician. But her record of working with minority governments of both stripes showed she could deliver on her agenda from outside the mainstream.
On the eve of a summit in Chile to discuss the protection of marine life in Antarctic waters, much still needs to be done to guard against overfishing, climate change and other threats.
We must ask ourselves how healthy it is to publicly shame a vulnerable person and what the right balance is between culpability and a sense of care and generosity to those who have done the wrong thing.
The exhibition inevitably raises the ugly head of the Elgin Marbles – but all this noise drowns out the quiet activism of the show itself.
Imprisonment rates in Tasmania have steadily declined over the past decade – the only state or territory where this has happened. That is a result of progressive and effective corrections policies.
With increasing human pressure on the environment, how can we save wildlife while lifting people out of poverty? A new manifesto argues for using technology to intensify energy and agriculture.
Japan’s proposed new program to kill whales for science has been rejected by an international expert panel.
Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Man Booker Prize has put Tasmanian writing in the spotlight – and the announcement of new state literary prizes has helped too. So what is distinctive about Tasmanian literature?
Metadata is only the beginning. The Big Data trend means there’s a lot more information about us out there that can be tracked or monitored.
New evidence suggests there no foxes in Tasmania. Were there ever? Even if there weren’t, the state’s multi-million dollar fox hunt was worth it to save wildlife.
The devastation to Vanuatu left in the wake of Cyclone Pam shows small islands in the Pacific need a climate insurance scheme, similar to what has been achieved in the Caribbean.
Proposals to reintroduce Tassie devils to the Australian mainland have argued devils could help control feral cats. But new research shows there’s no simple answer.
In the age of the “creative economy”, reality programs are dominating Australian TV. The problem is, reality TV is squeezing the creativity out of our screen culture.
Forecasts released under the Charter of Budget Honesty are on the wrong time horizon and need greater transparency.
Authors
-
Adviser, Antarctica and Marine Systems, Science & Policy, University of Tasmania
-
Research Associate, University of Tasmania
-
ARC Future Fellow in Fisheries Science, University of Tasmania
-
Senior Research Associate in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania
-
Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania
-
Honorary Research Associate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
-
Writer, author, journalist, Associate Lecturer in English & Writing, University of Tasmania
-
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy & Gender Studies, University of Tasmania
-
Professor, University of Tasmania
-
Climate Research Fellow with the Climate Futures Programme, University of Tasmania
-
Associate professor of oceanography, University of Tasmania
-
Professor of Political Science; Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
-
Senior lecturer, University of Tasmania
-
Lecturer in Health and Physical Education Education, University of Tasmania
-
Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
