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Israel's disproportionate response to the October 7 attacks is significantly harming the wellbeing of many Australian women, according to ANU and UNSW findings.
The study's lead author said it showed women with migrant or family ties to the region face an “an acute stress reaction in response to the extreme nature of the violence inflicted on [their] communities.”
Job markets remain resilient, with labour force participation reaching record highs in many OECD countries. However, there are signs of a slowdown amid geopolitical and trade policy uncertainties, according to a new OECD report.
Population ageing is anticipated to cause major labour shortages and fiscal pressures.
A competitive workplace culture can add to feelings of “imposter syndrome,” according to a new study.
Co-author Professor Michelle Ryan said the findings “challenge the idea that imposter syndrome is a personal flaw,” and finds it to be disproportionately common in women and minority groups when bosses “pit colleagues against one another.”
While climate change is already having a very big impact on Australia, the multi-billion-dollar question for the nation’s prime food bowl, the Murray Darling Basin, is how much is climate change responsible for declining stream flows and how much is it due to irrigation?
The ANU team discuss how they took on this challenge, with implications for Australia's sustainable diversion limits.
“About half the income gap in both Australia and Germany was due to men working long hours.
It’s tough to combine a job with running a household, but one person working unpaid hours makes this almost impossible. In households, a job with long hours means someone else must pick up the rest. This includes caring for kids, running the house, walking the dog, cooking dinner and more.”
“The G7 summit... was another test in managing the US withdrawal from the multilateral rules-based order.
Trump’s early departure could have upended progress... if not for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s leadership. The world of constructive US engagement on global problems is gone — the task of building back better now falls to a coalition of rich and developing countries.”
As parliament returns and a new opposition leader in place, what can we expect the tone of the debate to be? Is the Trump administration isolationist? And should Australia respond to its request to commit to defending Taiwan?
On this episode of Democracy Sausage, Professor John Blaxland joins Mark and Marija to discuss the new parliament, the US-Australia relationship and AUKUS.
In this Devpolicy Talks, Former US Ambassador Judith Cefkin provides a sobering assessment of how the Trump administration's foreign policy shifts are reshaping American engagement with Pacific Island nations.
She discusses the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement for countries that view climate change as their primary security threat, and the dismantling of USAID.
On this episode of Little Red Podcast, Louisa and Graeme are joined by anthropologist Gareth Fisher from Syracuse University and political scientist Chien-Peng Chung from Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
They discuss recent temple visits held by Xi Jinping as he extols a Buddhism with Chinese characteristics and how he can use Buddhism to his advantage.
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