The second episode of Scam Factories, a podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds.

So-called authentic leadership was once seen as good and moral. But leaders are increasingly ‘signalling’ their messages in ways that can be highly polarising.

Eden Paige Yin, PhD candidate in Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau New research shows people in specific Polynesian communities have a much higher rate of a form of ...

It is common for parents to worry about raising a child to be multilingual. They may wonder, am I harming my child’s English if I speak another language at home?

The prize was awarded for Han Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”: a description that applies equally to this newly translated work.

In Australia, around one in four people who are able to get pregnant will have a medical or surgical abortion in their lifetime. Both options are safe, legal and effective. The choice between them ...

As Canada moves into 2025, its productivity still lags, despite efforts by the federal government to address the issue in the 2024 federal budget. Canada’s productivity has declined in nine of the ...

About 40% of Australians don’t believe humans are a major cause of climate change. Reaching these sceptic holdout groups may require unconventional approaches.

Julie MacArthur, Associate Professor, School of Business, Canada Research Chair in Reimagining Capitalism, Royal Roads University Runa Das, Associate Professor, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, ...

Homeownership – long a cornerstone of the “the American dream” – is increasingly out of reach for the average American. Over the past four decades, U.S. house prices have risen by 75% in real terms, ...

The Trump administration has asserted a new balance of power among the three formerly coequal branches of government. In its version, the president has almost kinglike powers.

Tesla billionaire’s financial entanglement in China raises the prospect that he could be the odd man out when it comes to Trump’s Asia policy.