By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan, addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, September 23, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Pamela Smith (Geneva, November 10, 2026) – United Nations members urged Tajikistan during its periodic United Nations peer review on November 5, 2026, to take urgent action to protect human rights in the country and end repression against government opponents.Member countries called for the release of journalists, lawyers and civil society activists from unlawful detention, for freedom of speech,…
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By Andrew Cullen, Guest Research Fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
Jensen Huang, the chief executive and co-founder of chipmaking company Nvidia, recently admitted to an extramarital affair. However, it’s not just a tabloid story: the woman involved, Alice Huang, has been accused of being a Chinese intelligence agent.
Computer chips – specifically the chips used to produce and run artificial intelligence (AI) systems – have become a key front in the United States’ rivalry with China for geopolitical power and influence. The most powerful…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
In politics, rumour feeds on rumour, and the line between rumour and reality can become increasingly blurred. At the extreme, rumour can in itself help change reality.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, struggling with a mass of economic problems, is presently the centre of the Canberra rumour mill – about his relationship with the prime minister, about colleagues’ allegedly undermining him, even about suggestions he could be shifted out of the Treasury portfolio.
Just before he jetted off on Tuesday to the COP climate conference in Turkey, Albanese was asked at a news conference:…
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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
If the DemosAU poll is accurate, Labor is facing a near-total wipeout, losing left-wing inner city seats to the Greens and other seats to the Coalition and One Nation.
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By Global Voices East Asia
Macau recorded its first conviction under the city’s national security law on November 6, 2026, sentencing 69-year-old former lawmaker Au Kam San to 12.5 years in prison. Observers call it an “unfair” “sham trial”
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A damaged Ukrainian railway carriage that was attacked by a Russian drone on January 27, 2026 near Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine killing five people, and injuring two others, on display at the Kyiv central train station on February 23, 2026. © 2026 HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty Images Russian drone attacks on passenger trains and railway infrastructure in Ukraine have killed and injured civilians, including railway workers, disrupting a transportation network millions of Ukrainians rely on to escape danger and access essential services.Attacks on civilian…
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By Hein Thu, PhD candidate, National University of Singapore
Shahmir Hassan Ali, Assistant Professor of Public Health, National University of Singapore
Myanmar shows how conflict, poverty and power shortages deepen health inequalities, leaving displaced and vulnerable communities at greater risk from extreme heat.
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By Rick Shine, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, Macquarie University
Daniel Natusch, Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie University
Timothy J. Colston, Associate Professor, Biology, University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez
The international reptile trade has long been viewed as a conservation threat, but recent research suggests that’s not the full story.
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By Catherine Ordway, Visiting Scholar, School of Business, CBR, UNSW
Leila Khanjaninejad, Senior Lecturer, Monash Business School, Monash University
Sascha-Dominik (Dov) Bachmann, Professor in Law and Security, University of Canberra; Stellenbosch University
More than 200 athletes have been killed in Iran since January. This is what global sporting bodies must do to pressure the Iranian regime.
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By Anastasia Powell, Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
Both major parties in the state have pledged to bring in ‘Clare’s Law’ to allow people to ask police about a partner’s history of violence. But will it help?
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