Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.

The New South Wales (NSW) Parliament is currently holding an inquiry into the Human Rights Bill 2025. The Bill proposes to establish a statutory human rights framework for NSW (for non-Australian r…

*** Adolfo M. García, Agustina Birba, Edinson Muñoz, Isabelle Chou *** How interpreting drains the bilingual mind Simultaneous interpreting is often described as one of the most cognitively demandi…

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Katharina Gensch (University of Hamburg) about her new paper “English language education for older adults in a mult…

Ez li welêt mamoste bûm. Lê piştî 12 Îlonê em ketin hepsê. Hepsê de em hinek kurdî elimîn. [In the homeland, I was a teacher. But after the military coup of September 12, I was imprisoned. It was i…

*** By Rizwan Ahmad, Salma Dhailia, and Mahla Almeraikhi *** Es fi: ‘Broken’ Arabic in the Gulf When you walk through the streets of any Gulf country, you may hear a language that is neither Arabic…

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Lindsay McMahon, founder of the All Ears English Podcast, about pronunciation teaching for global English.  What does it…

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Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low

Feminist approaches in applied linguistics research refer to a diverse research agenda that shares a commitment to revealing and interrogating the gender order in and through language and its mainten...

The cash-strapped university had announced plans to slash some degrees earlier this year. But public health goes.

At 178 hours and 853,348 words, the Gurindji Kriol corpus (Meakins & Algy 2004) is currently the largest annotated corpus of an Australian Indigenous language, and is a significant record of the commu...

A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

Families of 12 Polish inmates given back their belongings during ceremony in Warsaw

The prime minister, when in opposition, accused the Coalition of "hollowing out" the CSIRO. Now, following the announcement 350 research positions at the organisation will be cut, he is being accused ...

Are you a Sydney-based teacher who needs to communicate with parents who do not speak English or do not speak it well? Do you sometimes have to ask students to translate for you to communicate with…

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

In this episode Hanna Torsh talks to Vaughan Rapatahana about sexual predation in the English language teaching industry. Dr Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa) is an author, poet and editor who lives i…

A case study in a medical journal reported that the 60-year-old man replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide after consulting the AI bot.

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

Research shows that language maintenance of migrant heritage languages correlates with positive social outcomes [Han, W.-J., and C.-C. Huang. 2010. “The Forgotten Treasure: Bilingualism and Asian C...

In this episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar, an academic based in the Graduate Research School at the University of New England, Arm…

Every day, officers working at international airports investigate potential risks to state safety and security. But how do they decide who they can trust, and also ensure that the broader public trus...

This article examines how racial and linguistic identities are constructed on the Australian reality TV show Border Security. Based on an analysis of 108 episod...

Whenever I write an email to a professor, there is one question lingering in my mind: Should I say “Dr + Last Name” or just “First Name”? It might look like a simple question, but it exemplifies a …

This chapter engages with questions of linguistic equity in education and provides an overview of linguistic barriers to inclusive education. Specifically, it

“School funding has become such a politically poisonous area that public schools have to be pathetically grateful for anything they get.” This is how Professor Helen Proctor, Sydney School of Educatio...

About 34,000 Ukrainian children have fled to UK since Russian invasion – yet are unable to study their mother tongue

Did you know that the US is referred to as “Beautiful Country” in Korean? Or that different ways of speaking English index different class positions? Or that English has become part of …

The government wants to pass laws giving it power to deport, confiscate mobiles in immigration detention and ban...

Teachers and AI: Can AI truly address all of the considerations essential to the inherently human and relational nature of teaching?