By Amnesty International
Responding to news that the Commission of Inquiry’s report into the killings perpetrated during and after the 29 October 2025 general elections has been handed to Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Flavia Mwangovya, said: “Victims’ families and members of the public must have an opportunity to […] The post Tanzania: Release Commission of Inquiry report into election-related killings to kickstart accountability process appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Kai Riemer, Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, University of Sydney
Sandra Peter, Director of Sydney Executive Plus, Business School, University of Sydney
Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI).
The link seems obvious. Meta’s chief people officer, Janelle Gale, said the job cuts – about 10% of staff or almost 8,000 workers – serve to “offset the other investments we’re making”. Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has previously spoken about a “major AI acceleration” with spending…
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By Margherita de Candia, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, King's College London
The Italian prime minister and leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni, has made fostering ties with foreign leaders a central part of her political strategy. A few years before winning Italy’s 2022 general elections, she started cultivating ties with the US and European conservative world as part of a broader political rebranding effort aimed at projecting a more moderate image at home and gaining legitimacy abroad.
She subsequently became a familiar face within Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (Maga)…
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By John Stewart, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University
Olivier Lambert, Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Could new populations of seals and porpoises attract the descendants of some of the large shark species that were thriving in this region 4-5 million years ago?
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By Emma Linford, Honorary research associate, English literature, University of Hull
Shrinking into her yellowing wedding gown with the decay of her wedding breakfast around her, Miss Havisham, from Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel, Great Expectations, is one of the best-known characters in English literature.
Jilted on her wedding day by her unscrupulous fiancé, Havisham can be understood by modern readers as a victim of “romance fraud”, where in a fraudster manipulates someone under the guise of courtship for their own financial…
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By Aditi Upmanyu, PhD candidate in English Literature, University of Oxford
In his biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, written after her death, her husband William Godwin remarked of her travel writing: “If ever there was a book calculated to make a man fall in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.”
Today, however, Wollstonecraft is best known for a different work: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). While this landmark text helped lay the foundations of western feminist…
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By Helen Millman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Polar Science, University of Exeter
Martin Siegert, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Cornwall), University of Exeter
Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences, Penn State
If all glaciers melt, sea level will rise by about 24cm. If the polar ice sheets melt, sea level will rise by more than 65m; almost 300 times more.
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By Lina Przhedetsky, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, The University of Melbourne
One of Australia’s most-used tenancy application platforms has breached privacy laws, Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has ruled.
2Apply, owned by InspectRealEstate, is a third-party platform that has processed more than 8.5 million tenancy applications.
The commissioner launched an investigation into 2Apply in March last year. In a landmark determination published this week, she found that…
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By Georgia van Toorn, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Politics, UNSW Sydney
The government plans to cut the number of NDIS users by 160,000 over the next four years. Here’s what we know about how they’ll do that and who’ll be affected.
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By Robert Davis, Associate Professor in Wildlife Conservation, Edith Cowan University
Got a mouse in your house? That thought alone may terrify you.
Now imagine if mice were scampering through your house, rummaging in your pantry or even running across your face at night.
That sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but it’s what many Australians have experienced when living through a mouse plague.
Mouse plagues can be economically and psychologically devastating,…
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