Cemeteries are running out of space, and cremation damages the environment, but there are other ways we could honour our dead ...

Every employee needs toilets and break facilities, but gig companies don’t provide these, leaving workers dependent on public ...

When researchers secretly used AI bots on Reddit to study how AI can influence human opinion it became a landmark moment for ...

“We’ve been managing the river as custodians from the beginning of time, but governments are not asking us how we did that.” Water justice is a critical issue for Aboriginal people who currently own ...

Sshhhh, can you hear that? Listen carefully… listen, don’t make a sound! Can’t you hear it? Neither can I, but I know it’s coming. Every year I wait, and sure enough, it arrives. There is a request to ...

What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of ‘wage theft’. Wage theft is the popular term that has come to describe “under-or ...

Bringing extinct animals back from the dead is no longer the realm of science fiction but is fast becoming a scientific reality. Around the world, research is ongoing to bring back key species using ...

Monotremes are among the world’s strangest animals, mixing mammalian and reptilian characteristics in the one creature. When British scientists in the 18th Century first saw a platypus they dismissed ...

The history of the quantum revolution is replete with famous names like Einstein, Bohr, Pauli, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and others who have forever changed the way we think about the world. The smug ...

Unlike New Zealanders, whose education is rich in Maori language, history and customs, most Australians have only a sketchy understanding of the traditions of their country’s first peoples.

In Australia, we have a love-hate relationship with our native possums. We love to watch them scramble up a tree on a summer’s evening and admire their agility as they skitter across power lines. But ...

The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was one of Australia’s most enigmatic native species. It was the largest marsupial predator to survive until the arrival of Europeans but carried its babies in a ...