The big question now is how this new media-politics-money combination will form an effective force on the right of Australian politics.

When it comes to the green transition, China poses an inconvenient but important challenge to liberal democracies.

Jakarta is sinking. Parts of the Indonesian capital city drop several centimeters every year because too much groundwater has been pumped from underground. When heavy rain comes, large areas flood.…

Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo

A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai

China rejects 10 containers of Australian mung beans after testing found the shipment exceeded allowed chemical levels.

Dance from and by ethnic minorities constitutes a significant part of how people perceive both ethnic minority cultures in China and Chinese dance at large. However, observers often miss how the stagi...

The road to Long Bow used to be much longer. When American agronomist and author of Fanshen (1966), William Hinton, made the journey to this seemingly unremarkable village in the autumn of 1947, he sp...

Stop the demolition of the John Medley Building

This article develops the concept of energyscapes to examine the production, governance, and transformation of socio-material spaces for tar sands extraction, distribution, and consumption in Canada. ...

The war in the Middle East has hit Filipino households where it hurts most: their electricity bills. Since late February 2026, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted roughly 20% of the worl...

Paraquat is banned in dozens of countries – but this cheap imported herbicide is everywhere in Australia.

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority concludes its nearly 30-year review of the controversial but popular herbicide.

A personal history of plastics, written by a plastic-maker’s daughter turned environmental sociologist who, for the past decade, has searched for t...

China’s national government policies on energy and economic development are changing pastoral life on the Tibetan Plateau.

The climate crisis is a lived reality in the Pacific. In Vanuatu, slow-onset and extreme weather events threaten coastal infrastructures, food security, and soc...

Lawmakers cite studies linking weedkiller to Parkinson’s as pressure mounts for a wider US ban

The academy has always been in a state of siege.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body whose mission is to “provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate po...

Experts will reflect on recent developments in Chinese universities considering implications for research, teaching, and collaboration.

Proposal from group that worked with AOC and Bernie Sanders seeks to counter claim that climate policy is politically toxic

Job-ready graduates program will also leave almost two-thirds of humanities and creative arts students with debts exceeding $50,000

MAE HONG SON, Thailand — Saw Si Paw Rak Salween guns the wooden fishing boat’s engine and steers along the river that inspired his family name. He is ethnic Karen — his parents migrated from Myanmar’s...

Geographies of Poverty in China - Power, Politics and the Rural Poor; This book critically examines China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation campaign, revealing how technocratic, top-down interventions li...

Nusantara is a new Dig series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This episode traces a l...

What has been done cannot be undone. But a reversal of the current descent into barbarism begins with justice for Gaza. The University of Melbourne still has an opportunity to speak out against genoci...

Farmers are warning consumers to expect price rises in the supermarket as fuel and fertiliser shortages affect crop production and transport.

Australia’s poisons regulator shows how hard it is to rebuild an institution after it is damage. As it rebuilds, Australian native animals are dying.

Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.

Bill to ‘promote ethnic unity’ by mandating Mandarin use would hasten decline of other cultures, critics say

JAKARTA — When old mattresses and broken chairs are dumped by the roadside in his neighborhood, Erwinsyah faces a choice: leave them there and risk accidents, or set them on fire. The head of a…

This is the second of two stories about the potential impact of Cambodia’s planned Funan Techo Canal. Read part one, about consequences for coastal communities and wildlife, here. TAKEO, Cambodia…

Featuring Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin on the MAGA model of US imperialism.