Military

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Health & Medicine

Restoring the lives of Australians with PTSD

Australia’s largest ever treatment trial of PTSD in military personnel and veterans is delivering game-changing results

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Politics & Society

Imran Khan’s failure exposes Pakistan’s military problem

Since its establishment, Pakistan’s governments have been dominated by the military, but there is hope for change

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Politics & Society

Why do anti-corruption campaigns fail in Pakistan?

To understand why anti-corruption campaigns fail in Pakistan, we must understand the role of kinship and the impact of periods of military rule

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Politics & Society

How do you judge tough military decisions?

New research investigates the role of hindsight in difficult military decisions and how the outcome of that decision can bias our judgement of whether it was proportionate or even legal

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Health & Medicine

Why health needs to engage the guys with guns

Security forces and health workers make for prickly, sometimes deadly bedfellows, but investing in partnerships could reap dividends in disease control

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Politics & Society

The Battle of Kursk: 75 years on

The human and material toll of the world’s largest tank battle was horrendous as the Wehrmacht’s tactical edge was overwhelmed by superior means of destruction

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Arts & Culture

Comedy in the trenches

Humour was a safety valve for trench-bound soldiers during the First World War and the language of the enemy was prime fodder, journals reveal

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Education

Remembrance Day: Updating an incomplete record

Almost a century after the First World War, the University’s war records are still being updated with new names of those who served and died - and there may be more

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Politics & Society

Protest and democracy in Asia

Protests on the Japanese island of Okinawa are an example of growing civil society dynamism in Asia, an important element of democracy and active peace-seeking

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Sciences & Technology

From laundry to weapon disposal: The role of enzyme mimics

The creation of an enzyme mimic that can clean your clothes, could also have implications in the safe disposal of nerve agents

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