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Richard Holden | Alan Kohler Australia, a land of sweeping plains, has one of the lowest population densities on the planet. So, how did we...

Since its 2025 publication, Laurie Woolever's Care and Feeding was an immediate New York Times bestseller, tracing her path from small-town...

As one of the world's leading researchers in artificial intelligence, Toby Walsh has been awarded the Humbolt Research Award and elected as...

Programs like ChatGPT have become ubiquitous with AI, promising to kick start the next industrial evolution. But the scale of resources need...

Many people would recognise Australian actress Yael Stone from her breakout role as the red-lipped Lorna Morello in TV series Orange is the...

Within today's social media landscape, a finely tuned content algorithm is serving up often unhealthy and sometimes extreme views on masculi...

Hear acclaimed political biographer Troy Bramston in conversation with UNSW's Verity Firth and delve into his latest book Gough Whitlam: The...

We've come a long way since references to lesbians could potentially land you jail-time and lesbian culture was less visible in literature a...

With Australia on track to be among the first countries in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV, there is a lot to be optimistic a...

In an era of increasing productivity, efficiency and automation it's important not to lose sight that education – the learning and tea...

The blood-brain barrier prevents 98% of medicines from reaching the brain. This prevents the effective treatment of neurological disorders,...

As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, we are all at risk of one day having our homes and our lives being in danger from f...

Our coastal marine habitats are suffering from the man-made degradation of climate change. From coral reefs to seagrass meadows, oyster reef...

Within today's social media landscape, a finely tuned content algorithm is serving up often unhealthy and sometimes extreme views on masculi...

Light has unlocked many technologies over the course of human history. The more we learn about what light is and what it can do, the more ap...

Ask any AI image generator to create an image of a garden and you're likely to receive a very specific type; manicured English or French, co...

More than 400,000 children and adolescents will be diagnosed with cancer worldwide this year. Many treatments that are meant to save a child...

The scintillating chronicler of human weakness, Oscar Wilde, once said, "True friends stab you in the front". In this popular event, writer...

Ivan Coyote doesn't fit neatly into one of two gender boxes, they never have. From an early age in the Canadian Yukon, they can remember dis...

When Nila Ibrahimi posted a video of herself online, singing proudly in protest of the ban on girls over 12 singing in public, she hoped the...

Women's bodies are a battleground for beauty capitalism with a constant pressure to reach unachievable beauty standards. Writer, presenter a...

In 1998, at the beginning of his esteemed career as an international human rights lawyer, Philippe Sands was invited to advise Augusto Pinoc...

The STEMMinist Book Club was founded in 2018 and is dedicated to reading and discussing books related to feminism and STEMM (science, techno...

Programs like ChatGPT have become ubiquitous with AI, promising to kick start the next industrial evolution. But the scale of resources need...

The Parthenon Marbles. The Benin Bronzes. Grandma's jewellery that she smuggled in her clothes, never to return. What if taking an object is...

The Ministry of Time landed on multiple bestseller lists thanks to its highly original, genre-defying story, which combines elements of time...

Since early 2023, MDMA has been authorised for use in Australia to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Still, it remains a controversial t...

Black Saturday razed towns, Canada's Fort McMurray wildfire forced 88,000 people to flee, the LA fires obliterated over 12,000 buildings and...

As state and federal governments move to criminalise forms of hate speech, it's time to look at what evidence shows about the effect that la...

Not two years after making Australian literary history with My Brilliant Career , Miles Franklin fell into obscurity – and when publis...

As one of the world's leading researchers in artificial intelligence, Toby Walsh has been awarded the Humbolt Research Award and elected as...

In 2018 Donna Strickland became the first woman in over 50 years to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, and only the third woman in history. Her...

Adam Bayes is leader in the field of mental health, working as a clinical academic psychologist at UNSW Sydney and a senior research fellow...

Soaring and crashing stock prices, resigning CEOs and out of control labour practices: what is going on with Australian businesses? Award-wi...

Anne Summers's Damned Whores and God's Polic e was first published 50 years ago – a time when sexual harassment, domestic violence and...

Economics Professor at UNSW Sydney Richard Holden (Money in the Twenty First Century) and Parliamentarian Andrew Leigh (The Shortest History...

Miles Franklin is a literary legend now, but her story, and those of women like her, were nearly lost to the passage of time. Kerrie Davies...

The climate crisis is vast, complex and often feels both imminent and frustratingly out of our control. With global systems slow to change a...

Artificial intelligence's collision with human creativity is one of the most important stories of our time. With the accelerating impact of...

Acclaimed Indonesian author Norman Erikson Pasaribu and award-winning Australian writer Dylin Hardcastle explore the joy, tenderness and tri...

Beneath the ocean's surface, fibre-optic cables pulse with the entirety of our human existence – memes and messages, stock trades and...

Richard Holden | Alan Kohler Australia, a land of sweeping plains, has one of the lowest population densities on the planet. So, how did we...

Machines lead the charge on today’s battlefields, but what does this mean for the people caught in the crossfire? Learn from journalist Anto...

How did sex begin? How did it evolve to become so varied and complex in humans? And what could sex look like for future generations? Hosted...

Economist John N. Friedman has made a career researching the causes of inequality and its long-term consequences for children in the US. His...

Brigitte Gerstl | Luara Ferracioli | Mianna Lotz | Chaired by Kathryn MacKay Is the emergence of artificial wombs and womb transplants a 'bo...

The late philosopher and scientist, Daniel Dennett talked about 'counterfeit people' as one of the great dangers of AI – but are we no...

Over 40 years ago, Deborah Lawrie broke barriers to become Australia's first female commercial airline pilot. Her path wasn't easy — s...

In a timely and thought-provoking discussion, essayist and author of the recently released The World After Gaza , Pankaj Mishra reflects on...

More than one in four women in Australia have experienced domestic or family violence, and one in five have experienced sexual violence. Yet...