The US president has announced no ships will be allowed through the Strait of Hormuz after the failure of peace talks in Pakistan, and Hungary's Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat
Experiences abroad show how to heal Australia’s debilitating social malaise, reports Alan Austin. read now...
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au. Monday April 13 Electric dreams “Reading the article about 6 things Australia should do to tackle the energy crisis made me wonder how big the task
The Queensland government has appointed three former politicians to senior positions in the state service. Former Liberal National Party minister Andrew Cripps will be the first special commissioner for rural and regional Queensland. The Townsville-based commissioner will advise cabinet on developing policies, programs, and services that address ...
The Commonwealth departments responsible for land use and climate change have turned over a third of senior executives in about a year. While junior staff at a number of agencies are being offered redundancies, the executive suite is rapidly changing above them. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
Following the arrest on April 7 of decorated former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) released a joint statement with the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI). “A former Australian Defence Force member, 47, has been charged under a joint investigation between the AFP and the Office of
Photo by Mark Direen/PexelsWhile stopped in heavy Melbourne traffic recently, I noticed that what looked like a shadow under a row of spotted gums (Corymbia maculata) along a major road was actually a stain on the concrete kerb. As a botanist, it caught my attention; biological stains always have
IBMOnline data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s supercomputers, working together for 10,000 years, could not crack it. But last month, Google and others
Warzones are full of danger. But that’s never stopped humanitarian workers from living and working in such places, with the aim of keeping civilians safe. Humanitarian workers are deployed to locations ravaged by conflict or natural disasters. Most recently, they’ve helped distribute essential supplies including food, water and medicine to
Raj Rana/Unsplash, CC BYANZAC Day is commemorated on 25 April each year as a tribute to more than 2 million Australians who’ve served in war and peacekeeping operations. That date is always the same. But how it’s marked as a public holiday varies between states and territories when it falls
Around the world, democracy as a system of government is backsliding. After more than 50 years of liberal democracy in ascendancy, democratic progress plateaued around the turn of the century and is now going backwards. In 2025, there were only 31 liberal democracies out of 179 countries assessed. And the
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will leave on Tuesday for his second fuel security mission within a week. He will visit Brunei and Malaysia, after his trip to Singapore last week won assurances that the country would not be putting restrictions on its exports of liquid fuel. In Brunei Albanese will
The US president has announced no ships will be allowed through the Strait of Hormuz after the failure of peace talks in Pakistan, and Hungary's Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat
Experiences abroad show how to heal Australia’s debilitating social malaise, reports Alan Austin. read now...
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au. Monday April 13 Electric dreams “Reading the article about 6 things Australia should do to tackle the energy crisis made me wonder how big the task
The Queensland government has appointed three former politicians to senior positions in the state service. Former Liberal National Party minister Andrew Cripps will be the first special commissioner for rural and regional Queensland. The Townsville-based commissioner will advise cabinet on developing policies, programs, and services that address ...
The Commonwealth departments responsible for land use and climate change have turned over a third of senior executives in about a year. While junior staff at a number of agencies are being offered redundancies, the executive suite is rapidly changing above them. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
Following the arrest on April 7 of decorated former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) released a joint statement with the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI). “A former Australian Defence Force member, 47, has been charged under a joint investigation between the AFP and the Office of
Photo by Mark Direen/PexelsWhile stopped in heavy Melbourne traffic recently, I noticed that what looked like a shadow under a row of spotted gums (Corymbia maculata) along a major road was actually a stain on the concrete kerb. As a botanist, it caught my attention; biological stains always have
IBMOnline data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s supercomputers, working together for 10,000 years, could not crack it. But last month, Google and others
Warzones are full of danger. But that’s never stopped humanitarian workers from living and working in such places, with the aim of keeping civilians safe. Humanitarian workers are deployed to locations ravaged by conflict or natural disasters. Most recently, they’ve helped distribute essential supplies including food, water and medicine to
Raj Rana/Unsplash, CC BYANZAC Day is commemorated on 25 April each year as a tribute to more than 2 million Australians who’ve served in war and peacekeeping operations. That date is always the same. But how it’s marked as a public holiday varies between states and territories when it falls
Around the world, democracy as a system of government is backsliding. After more than 50 years of liberal democracy in ascendancy, democratic progress plateaued around the turn of the century and is now going backwards. In 2025, there were only 31 liberal democracies out of 179 countries assessed. And the
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will leave on Tuesday for his second fuel security mission within a week. He will visit Brunei and Malaysia, after his trip to Singapore last week won assurances that the country would not be putting restrictions on its exports of liquid fuel. In Brunei Albanese will