Australian citizenship approvals increase this year
The number of Australian citizenship approvals this year have increased by 88 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Between 1 July 2018...
Feeling pressured to buy Christmas presents? Read this (and think twice before buying candles)
Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology and Jana Bowden, Macquarie University
Christmas marks a peak in consumerism across the West. Despite the COVID downturn, this...
This video shows just how easily COVID-19 could spread when people sing together
By C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW; Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, UNSW; Charitha de Silva, UNSW; Con Doolan, UNSW; Prateek Bahl, UNSW, and Shovon Bhattacharjee, UNSW
Production of...
Running out of things to do in isolation?
By Anthea Batsakis, The Conversation
Right now, the best thing we can do to help stop the alarming spread of coronavirus is to stay home....
12 simple ways you can reduce bushfire risk to older homes
There are no guarantees in bushfires, but you can improve the odds your house survives a...
Disney’s Mulan tells women to know their place
By Sin Wen Lau, University of Otago and Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Deakin University
Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan was released last week amid much controversy....
How does poor air quality from bushfire smoke affect our health?
Brian Oliver, University of Technology Sydney
New South Wales and Queensland are in the grip of a devastating bushfire emergency, which has tragically resulted in...
Most couples are less satisfied when the woman earns more
By Belinda Hewitt, University of Melbourne and Niels Blom, University of Southampton
Women are now the main earners in about one in four Australian households....
How a bushfire can destroy a home
Douglas Brown, Western Sydney University
Ten years after the devastation of Black Saturday, building design has largely been unrecognised as an area worthy of research....
Emma is hanging up the yellow skivvy: how the ‘first girl Wiggle’ created a...
By Liz Giuffre, University of Technology Sydney
When Emma Watkins took over as “The Yellow Wiggle” in 2012 there were huge headlines. Her casting was...