Most Australian capital cities have at least 80% chance of unusually warm and dry spring as climatologists watch developing system with increasing alarm

David Lloyd, the last vice chancellor of the now defunct University of South Australia, received a $1.1 million golden handshake on top of his $1.015 million base salary last year.

Just days after resigning as chancellor at the University of Wollongong (UOW), Michael Still faces the state's corruption watchdog.

Optimism about the future should not be a preserve of the past

Armstrong's first words from the moon couldn't have reached 600 million people without communication pros. As Artemis 2 launches, how do Australian science agencies communicate today?

Australian media isn't dying because social media stole its audience. It's dying because a whole new class of intermediaries is better at capturing value than publishers ever were.

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

In my decade-long tenure as a media academic at "Australia's leading regional university" (🙄), I was regularly asked to comment on shifts and changes in regional broadcasting and news. It was a diffi...

Anti-Olympic protesters marched peacefully through Milan on Saturday afternoon, holding signs, marching arm-in-arm, singing and dancing. But when night fell, the demonstration turned violent as some p...

In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.

Australia Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association conference, Sunshine Coast, 26-28 Nov. 2025

For my last conference of the year, I’ve made the short trip up to the Sunshine Coast to attend t

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare says, ‘if you don’t think there are challenges in university governance, you’ve been living under a rock’.

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

Koala deaths on Appin Road are not unusual this time of year, but the fatality of rescued koala Gage is cause for more than the usual frustration and despair.

Kylie Soanes says urban development should not come at the expense of nature and there's no reason why we should not spot a fairy wren on the way to the bus stop.

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...