By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
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Venezuelan Nobel peace laureate, María Corina Machado, plans to return home with her accolade “at the correct moment”. You have to presume the correct moment will be at such a time as her bitter political foe Nicolás Maduro is on holiday or otherwise unavoidably detained,…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appears to be starting to move towards some tightening of parliamentarians’ travel entitlements. After more than a week of controversy, Albanese on Friday said he had asked…
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By Alice Godden, Senior Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
Polar bears are expected to become extinct but there are some signs their DNA is changing and they are adapting to new temperatures.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Riot police barricade, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, December 8, 2018. © 2018 Human Rights Watch On December 9, CIVICUS Monitor, a nongovernmental group assessing civic freedoms globally, downgraded France’s civic space from “narrowed” to “obstructed.”The downgrade is the result of years of attacks on civic space, marked by “escalating police violence, surveillance practices, and arrests of protesters, targeting of journalists, and persistent restrictions on fundamental rights,” according to CIVICUS. The French government is also increasingly using heavy-handed…
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By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
The federal government has done a deal - underwritten by the taxpayer - to keep Australia’s largest aluminum smelter open. What’s the exit strategy if it doesn’t go to plan?
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By Sebastian Maslow, Associate Professor, International Relations, Contemporary Japanese Politics & Society, University of Tokyo
While diplomatic tensions between the two countries are not new, both have little to gain from the current dispute subsiding.
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By Francisco J. Monaldi, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Latin American Energy Policy, Rice University
Venezuela relies on the black-market oil trade for a large chunk of its revenue. US enforcement actions may push down the price it can charge, further squeezing the country’s economy.
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By Archana Koirala, Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist; Clinical Researcher, University of Sydney
Anthea Katelaris, Public Health Physician and Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Phoebe Williams, Paediatrician & Infectious Diseases Physician; Senior Lecturer & NHMRC Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
When you think about travel vaccines, you might think about ones for typhoid or cholera. But there are others you need to think about too.
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Thursday, December 11, 2025
Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has been implicated in a decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violence targeting protesters and opponents of President Nicolás Maduro, according to a new report from UN-appointed investigators on Thursday.
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By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Australians use social media to plan outdoor adventures. But travel influencers take risks to in remote locations . Are they putting followers in danger?
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