High Court dismisses key challenge to indefinite immigration detention. What does it mean?
The decision is a missed opportunity to move away from Australia’s practice of indefinite immigration detention.
How can we measure the size of Australia’s illegal cannabis market – and the billions in taxes that might flow from legalising it?
Policymakers will have to think carefully about pricing, taxation and providing discounts for buying in bulk. Else ...
A brief history of found footage video art – and where Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall fits in
There is a long tradition in video art where artists have used existing footage to comment on and amplify social, political ...
Wearable devices can now harvest our brain data. Australia needs urgent privacy reforms
Wearables are on the rise, including a new category: neurotechnology. A headband that can track your brain activity sounds ...
Andrew Tate’s extreme views about women are infiltrating Australian schools. We need a zero-tolerance response
Our ongoing research has found sexism, sexual harassment and misogyny are rife in Australian schools. The federal government ...
Grattan on Friday: Like the famous budget tree, Chalmers can change the story to suit the season
While the iconic ‘budget tree’ has its own narrative it’s now up to Chalmers to weave his budget story and kick some goals ...
Women in rich countries are having fewer kids, or none at all. What’s going on?
A declining population can have big implications for society down the track. To make parenting easier, governments need to ...
More than a third of urban Chinese live in sinking cities – here’s what they can do
The problem is illustrated by a recent study by researchers in China which found that more than a third of the country’s ...
A sex scandal that’s boring the public − and a judge forced to keep Trump focused
A former judge and an expert on political communication dissect the most recent week of Donald Trump’s hush-money trial.
La Niña is coming, raising the chances of a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season – an atmospheric scientist explains this climate phenomenon
After a year of record-breaking global heat with El Niño, will La Niña bring a reprieve? That depends on where you live and ...
Sleep wrinkles are real. Here’s how they leave their mark
Sleep wrinkles are temporary. But as your skin loses its elasticity as you age, they can set in. Here’s how to minimise them ...
Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead? There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests
This has led to the rival idea that the galactic discrepancies are caused instead by a breakdown of Newton’s laws. The most ...