Australia’s topography, highly flammable vegetation and frequent exposure to extremely hot, dry, windy weather means that bushfire is a natural part of the landscape. For our ongoing study on ...

Vanuatu’s capital city, Port Vila, is growing rapidly as people migrate from one of the 83 islands that comprise the archipelago nation. The city can be a big contrast for these migrants, known in the ...

In a little over three weeks, US voters will head to the polls to decide which candidate will become the 47th US president. In Part 1 of this series, we explored why Donald Trump could take the reins ...

Each year over 368 million tonnes of plastics are produced with over 13 million tonnes of it ending up in the soil where it can be toxic to wildlife. Our research team is particularly worried about ...

The United States was designed according to ‘the science of politics’ (Federalist Papers No. 9). Founders like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton were among history’s greatest political scientists.

There is growing evidence that mindfulness-based training programs may support teacher wellbeing and resilience. This clearly sounds like a good idea, in the current context of alarmingly high rates ...

The world is moving closer to the brink of instability, according to United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres. “…our world is heading off the rails — and we need tough decisions to get ...

Many readers will know the concept of legal professional privilege from US TV shows and movies like the Tom Cruise hit film The Firm, an adaptation of the John Grisham novel of the same name. In the ...

Archives are strange things. On one hand, they are repositories of the past and the people that came before us. On the other, they are partial snapshots that do not adequately capture diverse cultural ...

Many Australians take for granted that workers have a right to strike – that is, the right to withdraw one’s labour in order to improve working conditions. So does much of the rest of the world.

Amphibians have been on Earth for more than 400 million years. As the first land-based vertebrates, they evolved from fish during the Devonian period. Frogs are one of three orders of living ...

Australia’s modern history of multiculturalism, especially after the Second World War, has been held up as one of the success stories of Australia’s democracy but in recent times it appears to be ...