Our members publish regularly in The Conversation. Below are the links to some of their articles.

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2024

• Ian Gordon, Mary P. Coupland and Merrilyn Goos - How do we solve the maths teacher shortage? We can start by training more existing teachers to teach maths
• Allen Cheng - There are new flu vaccines on offer for 2024. Should I get one? What do I need to know?

2023

• Noel Cressie - Robodebt not only broke the laws of the land – it also broke laws of mathematics 
• Kim Colyvas, Gabriel Egan, Hugh Craig - Around 1600, speeches in English plays suddenly got shorter – and no one knows why 

• Allen Cheng, Andrew van den Hurk, Cameron Webb, Damian Purcell - 5 virus families that could cause the next pandemic, according to the experts
  
• Kristine Macartney, Allen Cheng, Christopher Blyth, Julie Leask - How common are severe side effects from COVID vaccines? And how are they detected?

2021

• Allen Cheng - My year as Victoria’s deputy chief health officer: on the pandemic, press conferences and our COVID future

• Ian Marschner  - Yes, it looks like Victoria has passed the peak of its second wave. It probably did earlier than we think                                                    
• Alice Richardson, Jessica Kasza and Karen Lamb  - The healing power of data: Florence Nightingale’s true legacy

2019

• Adrian Barett & Scott Sisson -  Here's how to make opinion polls more representative and honest   
  
• Sabine Braat & Karen Lamb -  Want to quit a bad habit? Here's one way to compare treatments

2018

• Chris Drovandi - What the stats say: is Steve Smith the second-best Australian cricket batsman ever?
  
• Karen Lamb -  The genius at Guinness and his statistical legacy
• Adrian Barnett & Scott Sisson -  A survey needs to involve how many people before I'm convinced?
• Adrian Barnett & Scott Sisson -  Could Australia win, really? The science of predicting the World Cup champion

2017

• Scott Sisson & Peter Baker- What the numbers say (and don't say) in the same-sex marriage survey
  
• Adrian Barnett -  Regression to the mean, or why perfection rarely lasts 

2015

• Adrian Barnett  - Diesel fumes and your health: VW cover-up shows we need to test local cars 

2014

• Terry Speed, David Warton, John Henstridge -  Statistics is more than a numbers game - it underpins all sciences
• David Warton -  Some stats methods are like Rick Astley - best left in the 1980s

2013

• Terry Speed  - Is it possible to add statistics to science? You can count on it  

2011

• Adrian Barnett -  Counting the ways vehicle emissions (still) make us sick
• Adrian Barnett -  Fingers crossed: the role of randomness in medical research funding