AI slop is Macquarie’s 2025 Word of the Year. I applaud the choice – but was bored by the shortlist

AI slop was the clear winner of Macquarie’s Word of the Year – it also won the People’s Choice Award. Honourable mentions ...

Vincent T

iberj est professeur des universités, chercheur au Centre Emile Durkheim et délégué recherche de Sciences Po Bordeaux. Entre ...

New transmission towers are crucial for renewables – but contentious. Here’s where they should go

Australia’s renewable boom has created a new bottleneck: grid access. As new transmission line costs blow out amid protests, ...

Risky business: how small firms can be caught in the trade sanctions crossfire

Small businesses in Australia and New Zealand navigate sanctions through loopholes and grey zones. But they run big risks if ...

Impacts of colonisation on dingoes are ‘written in their bones’, new research finds

Just like everyone and everything else that was already in Australia when the First Fleet arrived in 1788, dingoes had to ...
Opinion

Australia’s new National Food Council: lots of industry reps, at the cost of health and environment

It’s a missed opportunity to think differently about how we can ensure all Australians have access to enough healthy and sustainably produced food.

Thousands of genomes reveal the wild wolf genes in most dogs’ DNA

Today’s wolves and dogs share a common ancestor. But a deeper look at their genes reveals that interbreeding since dogs were ...

Hanieh ZIaei

Chercheuse en résidence au CÉRIUM, Hanieh Ziaei est titulaire d’un baccalauréat en relations internationales de l’Université ...

Comment Téhéran a transformé une défaite militaire en victoire symbolique

La guerre des douze jours Israël‑Iran en juin 2025, loin d’être seulement militaire, a servi de levier de propagande pour ...

Carmen Corona Sobrino

Carmen Corona es licenciada en Sociología y Comunicación Audiovisual por la Universidad de Salamanca y doctora en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Valencia. Su labor investigadora se centra en ...

5 great podcasts about art forgery

These 5 great listens investigate the labyrinthine qualities of art forgery, the peculiar celebrity of the art forger, and ...

Meanjin was closed – but new Australian literary journals are springing up around the country

Literary journals are breeding grounds of talent – including the new Splinter, rebooted Southerly, and First Nations journal ...