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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Espionage cost Australia $12.5 billion in 2023-24, according to a study by ASIO and the Australian Institute of Criminology. The figure includes … Continue reading “Espionage cost Australia $12.5 billion in 2023-24, ASIO boss Mike Burgess says”
By Keith A. Preble, Teaching Assistant Professor, East Carolina University One way or other, it looks like Russia could soon be slapped with a fresh round of U.S. sanctions. On … Continue reading “Why US plans to hit Russia with fresh economic penalties will have little effect”
By Geoff Isaac, Research Fellow, Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney What springs to mind when you’re asked to think of plastic chairs? Do you picture the ubiquitous … Continue reading “From futuristic design icon to environmental villain – the 80-year history of the plastic chair”
By Fateme Ejaredar, PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Calgary The recent war waged by Israel and the United States on Iran killed at least 935 people and wounded another … Continue reading “Iranian Canadians watch the Israel-U.S. attacks on Iran from afar”
By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation For the past few weeks the headlines about Gaza have focused on the hundreds of people who have been … Continue reading “what actions can Israel’s allies take?”
By Yvonne Reddick, Reader in English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Lancashire “Far over the misty mountains cold,” Dad read. Every evening before my light was turned out, he … Continue reading “what hillwalking with my father taught me about the origins of oil exploration”
By Dan Weijers, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Co-editor International Journal of Wellbeing, University of Waikato Happiness has many social benefits. Happy people tend to be healthier and more successful. They … Continue reading “Showing happiness brings social rewards, but the opposite can happen if people feel pressured to appear happy”
By Fateme Ejaredar, PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Calgary, University of Calgary The recent war waged by Israel and the United States on Iran killed at least 935 people … Continue reading “Iranian Canadians watch the Israel-U.S. war in Iran from afar”
By Gracia Abad Quintanal, Profesora Agregada de Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nebrija Half a century after the establishment of relations between China and the EU, and against a backdrop of deteriorating … Continue reading “progress on rare earth exports and tensions over Ukraine mark 50 years of pragmatically cautious relations”
By Tom Long, Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick In 1867, the world’s most powerful statesmen, including Austria’s Emperor Franz Josef, France’s Napoleon … Continue reading “How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order”