Society & Inequality
ACCC: private health insurers’ $4.8 billion covid windfall returned
Private health insurers have returned almost $4.8 billion to Australian customers after pledging not to profit from reduced access to health services during the pandemic.
Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Vanishing Act
Across the globe, an amazing orchestra of animal life is playing out in wondrous, quirky detail, revealing the resilience and spectacle of nature.
We built an illness system, not a health system. And we’re paying for it
Australia’s health system is beginning to resemble the US. We must change course
Why your Spotify Wrapped probably doesn’t have any new Australian music on it
If you don't have Australian artists on your Spotify Wrapped, you're not alone - it's the result of a structural, not individual, problem.
What teachers need to know before using AI for Indigenous education
If you ask ChatGPT to write a Welcome to Country, it might caution that only an elder can deliver a Welcome and instead offer you a template of an Acknowledgement of Country. There’s just one problem: acknowledging Country isn’t a template.
When ‘common sense’ cuts are code for a cruel con job
The greatest trick neoliberalism ever pulled was convincing people government intervention shouldn’t exist. And yet, governments know we will accept it without question when it comes to taking from the most vulnerable.
Why Australia (and the world) needs more legal anthropologists
At a time of collective resistance to legal authority, when laws and governance systems around the globe are being questioned, challenged and renegotiated, the complicated, nuanced and embodied understanding that legal anthropologists offer about how power and social ordering works is more necessary and imperative than ever.
The only thing standing in the way of gambling reform is the Government's cowardice
Last year, Australians lost $34.8 billion in bets. That’s more than Australian households spend on electricity and gas or alcohol.
Streaming services bias American music, which is bad for Aussie artists
November 27 is AusMusic T-Shirt Day, a day which raises money for SupportAct, because the popularity of Australian music is in such decline that it needs a charity to help
