RARE PHOTOS: 41 - The Real Truth

Reform wasn’t meant to be easy. Here’s how the battles for Medicare and child support defeated vested interests

Can you imagine Australia without Medicare, the age pension, or with 50% tariffs on imported goods such as cars, clothes and shoes?

The Conversation · Sep 8

Australians may soon be able to switch off social media algorithms. Is that censorship?

The federal government has released an exposure draft of its long-promised digital duty of care.

The Conversation · Sep 8

We designed a new way to build miniature fluidic devices to enable personalized cancer treatment

There is no “one-size-fits-all” treatment for patients living with cancer. Cancer occurs when normal cells in the body genetically mutate and transform into abnormal cells that divide uncontrollably.

The Conversation · Sep 8

The Bayeux tapestry is really an embroidered comic strip

The Bayeux tapestry is many things: a public statement, a massive work of collaborative art, a staple of the teaching of British history. The 70-metre-embroidered cloth depicts the events of the Norman conquest, culminating in the 1066 Battle of Hastings and the death of Harold II.

The Conversation · Sep 8

Too hot to learn: how climate change hurts children’s chances from birth

Children across Europe have returned to school after a summer of extreme heat. As the climate warms, one question is becoming harder to ignore: how can students learn when classrooms become dangerously hot?

The Conversation · Sep 8

Why the government’s debt is growing – current public spending pressures explained

Pressure to make cuts in public spending has intensified in recent weeks, with increased calls on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to find savings urgently.

The Conversation · Sep 8

The autonomy paradox: how more freedom at work can leave you feeling powerless

You may know the feeling. You’re supposed to have finished work for the day, but later, during your evening meal, you start mentally preparing for tomorrow’s meeting. Or just having a quick check of your emails while you half watch TV.

The Conversation · Sep 8

Canadians distrust government-funded local news, but it might be the industry’s best bad option

In defending an independent press, American founding father Thomas Jefferson famously remarked that he would prefer “newspapers without a government” to a “government without newspapers.” So it’s doubtful the third president of the United States would approve of a program for the government to pay reporters’ salaries.

The Conversation · Sep 8

India’s middle-class crisis: the great bifurcation and the Gen Z uprising

The student protests we have been witnessing in India can be explained in large part by the crisis facing the Indian middle class, marked in particular by graduate unemployment and a decline in average purchasing power. This is because the upper middle class has grown wealthier, while the lower-middle class…

The Conversation · Sep 8

Iran war: Tehran’s assertive rhetoric signals a new and dangerous phase in conflict

Iran’s threat to target American warships with an enhanced ballistic missile appears to mark a new and potentially more dangerous phase of the Middle East conflict, six months in. Tehran says its solid-fuel Qassem Basir missile enables it to “take action against any threat, even before it is carried out”.…

The Conversation · Sep 8