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  • EDUCATION

    Adolescence stoked our fears about schools. Here's what's actually happening

    • Meaghan Paul
    • 16 April 2025

    A Netflix drama about violent teens has ignited a global moral panic. But behind the hysteria, schools remain imperfect but vital places where most children still learn, grow, and thrive. The real crisis may not be with the students, but with the adults watching from afar.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Behind the classroom door, sexual harassment is becoming routine

    • Melinda Tankard Reist
    • 11 April 2025

    A growing number of female teachers in Australia are leaving the profession, citing daily sexual harassment from their own students. Fuelled by pornography and social media, the misconduct ranges from crude comments to deepfake abuse, raising urgent questions about safety, consent, and the culture festering inside today’s classrooms.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Europe prepares for war

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 27 March 2025

    Europe’s escalating defence spending, driven by the Russian threat, marks a shift toward militarisation. The EU’s new budget plan, designed to free up billions for weapons and security, raises critical questions about how far Europe will go in fortifying itself and the long-term impact on its stability.

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  • EDUCATION

    Universities are placing limits on protests for student safety

    • Erica Cervini
    • 25 March 2025

    As campus protests grow increasingly disruptive, universities face an uncomfortable choice: uphold students’ right to protest or ensure their safety and right to education. The debate over free speech and campus security has never been more urgent.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The age of outrage is hollowing us out

    • Max Jeganathan
    • 24 March 2025

    Amid rising hate speech and tighter laws, something deeper festers. In a culture wired for outrage and shaped by tribal algorithms, we’re learning not just to disagree, but to despise. What happens when identity is built on enmity, and public debate becomes less about ideas and more about who we’re against?

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  • MEDIA

    Activist journalism and the decline of the news

    • Josh Szeps
    • 21 March 2025

    Across a range of divisive issues from gender to race to public health, newsrooms are increasingly blurring the line between reporting and advocacy. As language is reshaped to reflect activist priorities, and opposing views are treated as moral threats, journalism risks losing its most essential commitment: telling the truth plainly.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    True crime, fake illness, real profits

    • Nikki Richardson
    • 06 March 2025

    In Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar, Belle Gibson’s wellness scam has been repackaged for the streaming era, perfectly illustrating how news, entertainment, and advertising function as overlapping parts of the same machinery to keep us consuming content.

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  • EDUCATION

    History matters. So why don't students think so?

    • Erica Cervini
    • 06 March 2025

    Despite public fascination with ancestry, true crime, and historical podcasts surging, formal study of history is in free fall. With university departments shrinking and misinformation rising, historians face an urgent question: how do you persuade students—and the public—that history isn’t just interesting, but essential to understanding the present?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    In a cashless society, inclusion must rule

    • Mark Gaetani
    • 26 February 2025

    As cash fades from everyday transactions, its decline underscores a growing divide in access. With digital payments dominating and cash use dropping sharply, questions loom over the future of currency in an increasingly cashless society, and who might be left behind.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cinema en verite

    • Jim McDermott
    • 13 February 2025

    As streaming services reshape film distribution and the role of film in popular culture, critics including Quentin Tarantino, have reopened the debate around whether the art of film storytelling has been compromised. So how did we arrive at this point of scepticism, and is the magic of cinema salvageable?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Could DeepSeek be a gift to the developing world?

    • Stephen Minas
    • 10 February 2025

    The launch of DeepSeek's new AI model has upended conventional wisdom about who controls the future of artificial intelligence. With its open-source nature and unprecedented affordability, it may offer the Global South a rare opportunity to become creators and beneficiaries of AI innovation.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Bluesky thinking: Can the internet rebuild its town square?

    • Jenny Sinclair
    • 07 February 2025

    In the wake of Elon Musk’s tumultuous Twitter takeover, the social media landscape has fractured, scattering digital discourse across competing platforms. Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon each offer a vision of what comes next, but will any replicate the vital, unruly town square Twitter once was? 

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