Tag: Australia
Why would anyone want to sit on a plane for over...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
Recently Qantas announced plans to conduct test flights from New York and London to Sydney and two other Australian cities.
If...
Could a national buyback program reduce gun violence in America?
Lacey Wallace, Pennsylvania State University
Americans own nearly half of the world’s guns, with approximately 120 firearms for every 100 U.S. residents.
Gun control policies may...
How Australia can help the US make democracy harder to hack
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University and Matthew Sussex, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
In the drumbeat of reports about Russian attempts to undermine...
Warnings on US cigarette packs not as effective as those in...
Yoojin Cho, University of South Carolina
Cigarette smoke contains more than 9,000 chemicals, including more than 60 carcinogens. According to the U.S. Food and Drug...
Why Trump is right, and wrong, about killing off the TPP
Elizabeth Thurbon, UNSW Australia and Linda Weiss, University of Sydney
President-elect Donald Trump is right: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a damaging deal and deserves...
English football holds lessons for cricket, as elites hijack the game
David Rowe, University of Western Sydney
Just as Australian cricket followers are coming to terms with the loss of the (men’s) Ashes and the impending...
We need to move beyond the medical model to address Indigenous...
Colin Tatz, Australian National University
Despite efforts to prevent suicide among Indigenous Australians, especially the young, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide rate is...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
