• Politics and Policy

    Politics by other means


    Phoebe Quinn |  October 15, 2024


    Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been accused of fracturing and distracting society, but a new approach aims to use a similar approach to bring people together to explore consensus solutions.


  • Business

    Blockchain-based microcredit could boost financial inclusion


    Shazmin Khalid |  October 15, 2024


    A new blockchain approach to micro-credit transactions in Kenya could pave the way for its adoption in other developing nations – including the South Pacific.


  • Cybersecurity

    New cyber laws?


    David Tuffley |  October 15, 2024


    The Albanese government has introduced long-awaited legislation to parliament to improve Australia’s resilience against cyber attacks.


Latest Story

  • Don’t page Dr. Bing

    Open Forum     |      October 14, 2024

    Patients shouldn’t rely on AI powered search engines and chatbots to always give them accurate and safe information on drugs, according to researchers in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety.

  • Friends for life

    Open Forum     |      October 14, 2024

    In news that should surprise no-one, scientists have found that peer acceptance in young teenagers, and close friendships in older teenagers, predict low social anxiety and high life satisfaction in young adults.

  • Eve of destruction

    Open Forum     |      October 14, 2024

    An international team of scientists warns the Earth is entering a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.

  • Do Australians really care about climate change?

    Open Forum     |      October 13, 2024

    An annual climate action survey has revealed public concern over the Great Barrier Reef and nuclear power but Australians affected by the cost-of-living crisis seem less enthusiastic about radical climate change action.

  • Nerve pain game enters clinical trials

    Open Forum     |      October 13, 2024

    Sydney Researchers have developed a game-like way of helping users with chronic pain manage their discomfort.

  • Unknown unknowns

    Open Forum     |      October 12, 2024

    New experimental data support the idea that people tend to assume the information they have is adequate to comprehend a given situation, without considering that they might be lacking key information.

  • AI to the rescue

    Open Forum     |      October 12, 2024

    The concept of an AI chat bot delivering postcode-specific disaster information developed by psychology postgraduate students at James Cook University won the 2024 Disaster Challenge.

  • Boosting indigenous employment

    Open Forum     |      October 11, 2024

    A new study from the Australian National University has found that Indigenous-owned businesses in Australia employ Indigenous staff at a rate 12 times higher than non-Indigenous-owned firms.

  • Slippery slope

    Samuel Cornell     |      October 11, 2024

    Social media posts of risky escapades at spectacular locations are still encouraging a stampede of copycats with sometimes disastrous results.

  • Securing security in the Pacific

    Blake Johnson     |      October 11, 2024

    It’s time for the Pacific to talk about ground rules in the security sector.

  • The flight from China

    Zhuowen Li     |      October 10, 2024

    The current flight of foreign capital investment in China is a sign of changing geopolitical and economic realities and will further weaken the Chinese economy in the long term.

  • Juice it up

    Per Henningsgaard     |      October 10, 2024

    Tim Winton’s first novel in 6 years is set hundreds of years in the future when climate change has rendered large parts of the globe uninhabitable.