1,000 cars and no garage – why car-sharing works
By Jennifer Kent and Robyn Dowling
Owning a car can be a hassle, especially if you live somewhere where driving is an occasional, rather than...
Enduring beauties: when buildings look good for their age
By Simon Weir, University of Sydney
This year’s Australian Institute of Architects' (AIA) 2014 National Architecture Awards – to be awarded on November 6 –...
A Canopy of Deadening Silence: The Beijing Media Assault on Hong Kong Citizens
By John Keane, University of Sydney
Now entering its third week, its numbers dwindling but its determination and purpose still remarkably strong, the umbrella uprising...
Hooked on the classics: literature in the English curriculum
By Stewart Riddle, University of Southern Queensland and Eileen Honan, The University of Queensland
The National Curriculum Review was released this week, with the reviewers...
We don’t know if God exists, but we should keep asking
By Graham Oppy, Monash University
Disputes about the existence of God — like most disputes about religion, politics, and sex — almost always generate heat...
What do parents fear? Unwrapping the bubble-wrap generation
By Jan Nicholson, La Trobe University; Amanda Cooklin, La Trobe University; Fabrizio D’Esposito, University of Melbourne; Shannon Bennetts, La Trobe University, and Sharinne Crawford,...
Pope sets off a ‘gay earthquake’? No, the church has hardly moved
By Timothy Jones, La Trobe University
A report of debate from the first half of the extraordinary synod of Catholic bishops meeting in Rome has...
Natural gas boom is ‘not the answer for cutting emissions’
By Michael Hopkin, The Conversation
The boom in natural gas supplies brought about by techniques like fracking will not automatically deliver the anticipated cuts to...
