STA, the Space Trajectory Analysis Project

This article describes the objectives of the Space Trajectory Analysis (STA) project. The article also details the birth of STA, and its present configuration. STA is a project to develop an open source astrodynamics software suite involving university science departments and space research institutions. It was initiated by ESA as internal activity in 2005 and now it involves 16 partners. The article explains the partnership into the STA Steering Board. The main purpose of the STA is to allow advanced simulation for the analysis of space trajectories in an open and free environment under the premises of innovation and reliability.Further, the article explains that the STA development is open source and is based on the state of the art astrodynamics routines that are grouped into modules. Finally, the article concludes about the benefits of the STA initiative: the STA project allows a strong link among applied mathematics, space engineering, and informatics disciplines by reinforcing the academic community with requirements and needs coming from real missions

Keeping Up Supply: It Isn’t Only About the Milk

Op ed examining the breastfeeding/expressing controversy around Australian Member of Parliament Kelly O’Dwyer in September 2015. It first describes this incident and then makes a critique of the neoliberal emphasis on ‘expressing’ as an equivalent to breastfeeding. The article was published in OnLineOpinion on Septermber 22nd, 2015

Immanuel Kant. Malcolm Turnbull, Immanuel Kant And The Conundrum Of Small And Big L Liberals

Op ed on the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. In this article I respond to an article in New Matilda by Spencer Jackson on the relevance of the eighteenth century philosopher Immanuel Kant for Turnbull’s refugee policy. In it I outline the key differences between small l and big l liberalism and the conundrum for Turnbull between his idealism and pragmatism

Flexibility Won’t Stop Women Retiring in Poverty

Op ed on proposals by the Australian Liberal Party to ‘stop the gender gap’ in retirement savings. The proposals offer women the ‘flexibility’ to pay more of their own superannuation without addressing the systemic problems associated with combining care work with paid work

Breastfeeding and Work: Babies Need More Than Just (Pumped) Milk, They Also Need their Mothers’ Bodies

Routledge press blog, World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding and Work, 1-7 August. Available online: https://www.routledge.com/nursing/posts/761

Why We Grieved for Hillary Clinton and Who Defends “Western Values” Anyway?

Op Ed on the wave of grief experienced after the electoral defeat of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in favour of Donald Trump. It explores the sexist biases that dogged Clinton and our continued ambivalence about women with . This is placed in the context of the fight for women's equal rights from suffrage through to the ERA and Clinton's presidential campaign in the US