what exactly is the Quad and what's on the agenda for their Washington summit?
Ryohei Moriya/Yomiuri Shimbun/APOn Friday, the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US will meet in Washington for the first in-person Quad summ...
Australia's banks got $188 billion in cheap loans from the RBA. Now they're funding share buybacks
shutter_o/ShutterstockMuch has been written about the taxpayer-funded windfalls to some companies provided by the A$90 billion JobKeeper scheme. Their...
5 big questions about the International Space Station becoming a movie set
NASA, CC BY-SAOn October 5, an unusual crew will fly to the International Space Station. Director Klim Shipenko and actor Yulia Peresild will spend a ...
Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs
The number of preschools pursuing learning through nature play is growing fast worldwide. However, the effectiveness and impacts of this approach is l...
Ivermectin shows us how hard it is to use old drugs for COVID. Here's how to do better next time
ShutterstockMany hopes have been pinned on repurposing existing drugs, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, to treat COVID-19. However, we shoul...
Calling the latest gene technologies 'natural' is a semantic distraction — they must still be regulated
Ivan Yudin\TASS via Getty ImagesLegislators around the world are being asked to reconsider how to regulate the latest developments in gene technology...
British High Commissioner Vicki Treadell on AUKUS and climate change
The New AUKUS security agreement has bound Australia even more tightly to the United States and Britain. But it has brought blowback against all three...
Earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings do. And those lovely decorative bits are the first to fall
James Ross/AAPNews of Melbourne’s earthquake today made my left leg hurt. That’s the leg I nearly lost.On February 22 2011, there were nin...
what exactly happened, and what's the best way to stay safe from aftershocks?
James Ross/AAPA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck about 115 kilometres east of Melbourne in Victoria, causing damage to buildings and forcing reside...
If The Man from Snowy River is Indigenous, what does that mean for our national myth-making?
Tom Roberts, A break away! (1891) Art Gallery South AustraliaAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised this story contains images of pe...
We need lithium for clean energy, but Rio Tinto's planned Serbian mine reminds us it shouldn't come at any cost
Thousands of demonstrators rallied across the Serbian capital Belgrade this month, protesting the US$2.4 billion (A$3.3 billion) Jadar lithium mine pr...
The earthquake that rattled Melbourne was among Australia's biggest in half a century, but rock records reveal far mightier ones
An earthquake that struck near Melbourne today is one of the largest in Australia since instrumental seismic records began. However, the geological re...
