By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2025. © 2025 Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via AP Photo Seventeen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, the latest report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, updates the current human rights situation in the country.The government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office in September 2024, promising justice for past rights violations. Yet, as the high commissioner’s September 3 report concludes, beyond…
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By Lyndall Bryant, Senior lecturer, QUT Centre for Justice, School of Econmics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology
Amanda Bull, Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology
Until we do more to tackle the causes of high construction company insolvencies, we’ll keep seeing more headlines about builders going bust.
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By Delyse Ryan, National Course Coordinator of Creative Arts, Senior Lecturer in Drama, Australian Catholic University
Kicking off the Brisbane Festival, Suzie Miller’s new play Strong is the New Pretty celebrates the blood, sweat and tears that helped create the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) competition.
The world premiere at Brisbane’s Playhouse theatre captivated the audience with incisive observations about the difficulties faced by the players, coaches and advocates who worked to secure that first professional season of the AFLW.
The play is loosely based on the extraordinary…
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By Penny Van Bergen, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wollongong
Elena Vasseleu, Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Development, University of Wollongong
Parents and teachers might think telling kids “they’re smart” is a helpful way to build self-confidence and support positive development.
But according to new research, these kinds of statements might shape how kids approach academic tasks in ways we did not intend or expect.
In some cases, it might even courage a child to cheat.
What adults say matters
When children experience success or failure, parents and teachers will often provide feedback about why the success…
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By Syrus Islam, Associate Professor of Accounting, Auckland University of Technology
Australia and New Zealand should introduce a mandatory impact-risk statement for funds making explicit claims about their environmental or social impacts.
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By Lily O'Neill, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
Gas is now flowing from the Beetaloo Basin, a vast fossil fuel project roughly 500 kilometres southeast of Darwin in the Northern Territory.
The basin is one of Australia’s largest onshore gas…
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By Tom Denson, Professor of Psychology, UNSW
You might be tempted to go for a run to control your anger. But that can make things worse. Here’s what the evidence tells us actually works.
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By Sharyn Carnahan, Lecturer, Health Science, Torrens University Australia
Saskia Beudel’s Peaking is a thoughtful account of what it means to inhabit a changing body while continuing to test its limits.
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By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
The great mistake was not the failure to stop the attacks, but the failure to understand how terrorism can amplify its impact through our response to outrage.
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By William Maley, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
After the signing of the Munich agreement in 1938 that allowed Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia, Winston Churchill spoke of the fate of that country in a powerful speech in the House of Commons:
Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness.
The same could…
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