UN chief asks for USD3.12-B for 2022 budget

UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday asked for nearly USD3.12 billion as the world body’s regular budget for 2022. “To fully implement the mandates...

Feminist responses on Weibo aim to fight the misrepresentation of women during COVID-19 in China

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused political, economic and social impacts globally, with women being affected disproportionately across the world. In China, the gendered impacts of...

U.S. to reopen land border with Canada

Australia’s multilingual identity is an asset for selling our English-language teaching to the world

It is rarely appreciated that Australia makes money not just from what it digs out of the earth but also from what comes out of its...

As home prices soar beyond reach, we have a government inquiry almost designed not to tell us why

Never has an inquiry into the skyrocketing price of homes been more urgent. Rarely has one been as insultingly ill-suited as the one under way right...

Is Boris Johnson facing his own ‘winter of discontent’? What the polls tell us

When we talk about how well or badly a government is doing, we often base that discussion around polling that shows how people say they are...

Reporting all biosafety errors could improve labs worldwide – and increase public trust in biological research

The origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains a mystery. One theory is that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was transmitted from animals to humans – a fairly common...

4 reasons Americans are still seeing empty shelves and long waits – with Christmas just around the corner

Walk into any U.S. store these days and you’re likely to see empty shelves. Shortages of virtually every type of product – from toilet paper and...

Introducing David Card, the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics winner who made the minimum wage respectable

Every year Australia’s Fair Work Commission considers whether to raise the minimum wage. And every year business leaders warn doing it will cost jobs. This year’s...

Why Joe Biden should emulate Canada and go big on private refugee resettlement

As attention turns from the evacuation of Afghanistan to the arrival of refugees, U.S. President Joe Biden has an opportunity for large-scale engagement of the American...