FOOD FOR THOUGHT – 3 February 2026 Our fellows have been busy! Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO died on 25 November 2025. Graeme was a Fellow of the Academy. The Roly Sussex Short Story award winners have been announced. Renai Grace FQA succeeds Jim Thompson FQA as Director of the Queensland Museum. Paul Harpur OAM on shoplifting meets disability access. Marcus Foth on urban sustainability in the long-running series Scientists’ Warning to Humanity Lidia Morawska’s is to be a Visiting Professor at Lublin, provides a summer reading tip, comments on the QUT retrofit to world-class air quality standards, and spotlights a need for new regulations about air quality. Paul Griffin on another covid wave, on bird flu, on measles, and on childhood vaccination rates. Alastair Blanshard on New Year’s customs. Kath Gelber on hate speech laws and on regulating religious freedoms. John Quiggin on the land tax threshold, on illegal tobacco sales and how they’re messing up econometric data, and on Australia’s relations with Asia. Stuart Cunningham has been recognised as a field leader in cultural studies. Virginia Slaughter on adults’ ideas about the gender appropriateness of toys. Ian Kemish on the Dayton Accord and the Bosnian conflict, on AUKUS, and on Trump’s changing America. Alan Rowan has the last word on his ten years at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Previous issues of Food for Thought
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