To help drought-affected farmers, we need to support them in good times as well as bad
Aug 13, 2018 15:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
With the New South Wales government announcing that drought is now affecting the entire state, the federal governments crisis assistance payments have been described by some as too little, too late. The National Farmers...
Button batteries kill. Here's how we can prevent needless child deaths from battery ingestion
Aug 13, 2018 15:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Dr Ruth Barker, Director of Queenslands Injury Surveillance Unit is an emergency paediatrician, and an advocate for button battery injury prevention. She is the lead author of this article. In 2013, four-year-old Summer...
When literature takes you by surprise: or, the case against trigger warnings
Aug 13, 2018 15:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views
It was an ordinary lecture to first-year students, on Women Writers and Modernism. My brief was to introduce the different ways men and women responded to the social, intellectual and artistic challenges of the modernist...
GetUp! on the impact of US corporate tax cuts on wages
Aug 13, 2018 15:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Graph: GetUp! Australia Instagram post, July 2018. Graph: GetUp! Australia, Instagram Graph shared by GetUp! Australia on Facebook and Instagram, July 2018 Debate continues over the Turnbull governments proposal...
How Canada inspired the Frenchman who helped unite Europe
Aug 13, 2018 15:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) initiative between the European Union and the United States has stalled under U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump, in fact, has expressed strong and persistent...
Fighting historic wildfires amid bad ideas and no funding
Aug 13, 2018 15:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Shortly after my book Firestorm, How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future was published in late 2017, I received a flurry of invitations to speak about the challenges of dealing with fires that are burning bigger, hotter, more...
Children with disabilities need better access to sport
Aug 13, 2018 15:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
Canadas 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, published by the national non-profit organization ParticipACTION, gives Canadian children and youth an overall D+ grade for physical activity. It...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects