The northern summer was marked by intense fires and heat. Now it’s our turn to face the heat.
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Most fire climate regimes in Australia shifted abruptly around the year 2000 – greatly increasing fire risk.
There is hope for a return to a more traditional and enjoyable Olympic Games with the upcoming 2024 Paris Games.
It’s the question still hanging over Brisbane’s 2032 Olympics, which made Victoria cancel its Commonwealth Games: do such mega events pay their own way? The evidence suggests they’re unlikely to.
‘Reverse racism’ focuses on prejudiced attitudes towards a certain (racialised) group, or unequal personal treatment. But it ignores one of racism’s central markers: power.
As part of recent challenges, multiple services have removed TV and film from their libraries – in many cases, meaning they are gone forever, inaccessible to any fan.
Cases of the flu and COVID are set to rise over winter, with many people looking to get vaccinated against both viruses.
After eight months of an inquiry there are ‘no adverse findings’ against former Hawthorn staff.
Differences over what counts as indoctrination lie behind a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in Florida. PEN America’s CEO deems book removals ‘a deliberate attempt to suppress diverse voices’.
Book bans in Ron DeSantis’s Florida have censored beloved Australian author Mem Fox – for an illustrated character’s bath. But blanket nudity bans teach children bodies are ‘inherently sexual’.
New research highlights how a stable academic career is almost impossible to secure.
The growing number of temporary migrants in Australia is a by-product of the boom in international students.
Sports gels and protein powders can meet the increased nutritional needs of endurance athletes in a convenient form. But they do pack downsides too.
School ‘gets real’ in Year 1 after an emphasis on play in the year before. Meanwhile, in Year 8, students’ motivation can dip in a year that has no obvious purpose.
On Wednesday, a discussion paper was launched, calling for ‘big ideas’ about Australia’s higher education sector.
About 100 early childhood experts are meeting in Canberra today for a national summit on children who are five and under.
One scenario has China’s population halving by the end of the century, another has it falling by two-thirds.
While this prominent and well funded project has gone into voluntary administration, those enthused about rapid decarbonisation and Australia’s renewable energy export potential need not despair.
Do you know someone who brings their own hot chilli sauce to restaurants and friends’ houses? Are you that person? What makes that burning taste sensation hurt so good?
Australia’s governments have agreed to impose caps on the wholesale domestic price of coal and gas. How much it will help is debatable.
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Collaborative Research Fellow, Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (ISILC), Victoria University
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Emeritus Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer; MD, Victoria University
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Senior lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University
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Lecturer, Victoria University
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Post doctoral research fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, Victoria University
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Adjunct Fellow, Olympic Scholar and Co-Director of the Olympic and Paralympic Research Centre, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University
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Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Research Officer, Victoria University
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Lecturer, children's literature and creative writing, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer and PhD student, Victoria University
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Professor of Immunology, Vice-Chancellors Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Head of Immunology and Translational Research, Victoria University
