As Australians face one of the worst housing crises in generations, the dream of home ownership is slipping away for many. At the heart of this national emergency lies a productivity crisis in our ...

As a professor and cognitive scientist at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Complex Human Data Hub, much of my research focuses on the study of ...

Australian politics tends to shy away from grand spectacle, but Albanese and Dutton both need to reassure a restless public ...

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 ...