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Recognised as Victoria’s Senior Australian of the Year 2024 for her work in animal advocacy, Glenys Oogjes shares her journey from Animal’s Australia’s first employee all the way to becoming the organisation’s CEO.
In the late 7th century, silver coinage started to be used in north-west Europe, transforming the economies of the time.But where did the silver in the coins come from? New research says the answer is Byzantine silver treasure and a mine in Fr
In his latest book, Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth Century Minds, author and former arts editor of New Scientist magazine, Simon Ings has focused on four writers: French nationalist Maurice Barre; Italian poet and
The International Society for Humor Studies held its annual conference in Texas and one of the papers that caught the eye was, “How funny is ChatGPT?”. The answer seems to be, funnier than people, at least according Drew Gorenz, a PhD student
What does 30 years of satellite data from Antarctica and the Arctic sound like? Japanese composer and Geoscientist Hiroto Nagai combined his two passions to create a moving ‘musification’ of recordings that plot a changing climate at the poles
25 April 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the water crisis in the US city of Flint, Michigan.The health emergency still has ramifications to this day.But what was the cause? And has justice been done?Guest: Dr Benjamin Pauli, associate profe
At this week’s World Energy Congress in Rotterdam, one of the themes will be clean energy security for First Nations communities. Communities in Canada have been adversely affected over many years by fossil fuel industry projects, while remo
A woman has lost the ability to speak and is forced to communicate by blinking. From her hospital bed she tries to blink out a request, but hospital staff refuse to help.Background Briefing can reveal that similar situations are playing out in
Queensland sheep farmer David Elliott's dinosaur bones discoveries have reinvigorated Australian palaeontology.
Six universities in China have jumped into the top 10 rankings of world universities in terms of scientific impact, and it happened without those institutions changing what they do.
An antidote to your digital diet, Deyan Sudjic’s book The Analogue Field Guide takes the reader on a tour of forgotten treasures of the analogue world. Exploring how technological advances have shaped society and culture and why some beloved i
The State library of Western Australia next week launches its new exhibition uncovering the forgotten history of the cameleers in the state. Often referred to as 'the Afghan Cameleers', this incredibly diverse community, their stories and nati
Lithuania's Deputy Minister of National Defence, Greta Monika Tučkutė, was a keynote speaker at the tenth Cybertech Global Conference during the week, where she spoke about "Building Virtual Fortresses".
Since the start of the year, Belarusian security forces have arrested and detained hundreds of people for expressing opposition to the Lukashenko regime in various ways, including donations to help the 1400 political prisoners in jail, which i
This week reporter and Dharawal woman Brooke Fryer goes inside a program that's helping violent men turn their lives around.
Recognised as WA’s Australian of the Year 2024, Mechelle Turvey represents a truly inspirational response to the cruellest of circumstances. Mechelle called for calm and unity in the wake of her 15-year-old son Cassius’ death, which stirred an
Multi-award-winner, legally deaf and master story-teller Lara Ricote brings her comedy show to the Melbourne festival
Financial abuse is experienced by a striking 16% of Australian women and 7% of men. This kind of controlling and coercive behaviour often hides in the shadow of other types of domestic or family abuse but can have devastating and long lasting
Data linking fasting diets to increased cardiovascular death have raised eyebrows across the research community and caught the attention of the media. But is this alarming research or simple an alarming headline? Clare Collins, laureate profes
No longer limited to highly-paid executives, non-compete provisions have recently affected a diverse array of workers including breakdancing instructors, carers, and boilermakers.
The president of Argentina has promised to close the country’s central bank, replace the peso with the US dollar, and take a chainsaw to public spending by cutting tens of thousands of public service jobs.
The first 6 months of the war in Gaza has seen an unprecedented number of local aid workers killed
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