By Vincent Hurley, Lecturer in Criminology (police & policing). School of International Studies, Macquarie University
With Australian and New Zealand demand for cocaine as strong as it is, it’s hard to know how much $600 million will do to stop the flow of drugs.
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By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
Petting zoos can be a lot of fun for all the family. But a recent tragic case reminds us there are infection risks.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
To give a better understanding of where the Australian economy is at we asked two independent economists to give snapshots of our economic health – or lack of it.
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By Isabel Dunn, PhD Candidate in Criminology, Monash Gender and Violence Prevention Hub, Monash University
The tragic case reveals a structural blind spot created by a family violence definition, making it harder for victim-survivors to get the help they need.
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By Bethany Kiss, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne
Sarah Bekessy, Professor, Urban Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Melbourne; RMIT University
Ever found a bare-nosed wombat napping under your house or heard a possum thumping around in your roof?
You’re not alone. Data from Wildlife Victoria reveals that about 2,400 native animals were reported by people as being in, on or under buildings over the past decade.
For our new study, we analysed these reports to find out which animals were taking up residence in buildings, which parts of dwellings they occupied and what they were doing there.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Abdulhadi al-Khawaja (left) and Mohamed Habib al-Muqdad. © Bahrain Centre for human rights/Wikimedia and Private For over 15 years, Danish human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Swedish activist Mohamed Habib al-Muqdad have been languishing in Bahrain’s prisons, as their governments and the European Union (EU) have failed to secure their release from unjust detention. As the EU launched negotiations for a “Strategic Partnership Agreement” with Bahrain in July, it should use them to ensure that al-Khawaja, al-Muqdad and others unjustly jailed can finally…
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By Jeslyn Lemke
About 60 to 70 percent of the Ghanaian population depends on the traditional medicine market for their medical care, according to a 2023 study in Frontiers in Pharmacology.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Indigenous residents from Nueva Vizcaya province protest outside the Mines and Geosciences Bureau and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Quezon City, Philippines, on July 13, 2026. © 2026 Charles Edmon Perez/JNA Press/Sipa USA via AP Photo Philippine police on August 28 dispersed a barricade that Indigenous communities had erected in Kasibu town, Nueva Vizcaya province, and arrested 11 Indigenous protesters. Members of the Bugkalot/Ilangot and other tribes have peacefully maintained a barricade since May to oppose the exploration activities of…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
In the two latest new federal polls, Morgan was good for Labor but Essential was bad. There were four federal polls taken last week, largely before the Western Australian Secret Harbour byelection.
The total vote for One Nation and the Coalition was 44% in Morgan (down four), 49% in Newspoll…
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By Liz Evans, Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
Life of M bleeds fact into fiction, but it requires much more of the reader than a simple guessing game of who’s who.
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