What’s up with young men? In Australia and many countries overseas, there has been considerable public discussion on what appears to be an emerging gap between young men and young women when it comes ...

At the very heart of all nations are distinctive, powerful and sacred myths of origin. Foundation myths generate potent emotional affective forces and binding collective meaning about the origin, ...

Taking a soak in a thermal spa might seem a much-needed break, worlds away from the relentless election campaigning, but they’re actually more related than you might think. One of the biggest election ...

Project Director (Heat Flow Data), School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne ...

As always seems to be the way, energy and climate policy is proving to be an area of contention between the major parties in Australia’s 2025 election. One issue that’s provoked a lot of discussion ...

Australia is heading to the polls on 3 May, and as we enter the campaign, the amount of misinformation we are exposed to is likely to increase. Some of this misinformation is deliberately designed to ...

On 2 April 2025, as part of a universal tariff announcement, the United States imposed sweeping new tariffs on Vietnam, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian economies. In justification, the US blamed ...

What’s your vision of gender equality? Whatever it is, it needs to take a stand on divisions of labour. Work – who does what tasks in society, and what they get in return – is at the heart of social ...

We live in an era of immense uncertainty. Tensions between great powers are rising, authoritarianism is spreading, while democracy declines and ongoing wars could broaden into wider conflicts. To make ...

There’s an absurdity in this moment in global politics – or at least in the global politics that is forced to react to the whims of Donald Trump. He has long been obsessed with tariffs as a tool for ...

For many patients, IVF is a stressful and overwhelming journey of ups and downs, involving lots of decisions about treatment options. Many IVF clinics offer optional extras or ‘add-ons’ on top of ...

PhD candidate in International Relations, Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, and Chair of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Asian Business and Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, ...