By Amnesty International
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) must take urgent action to condemn the unlawful use of the death penalty for drug-related offences and work with UN member states towards abolishing this cruel punishment once and for all, Amnesty International and Harm Reduction International said ahead of […] The post Global: UN drug control bodies must take urgent action towards ending unlawful use of the death penalty for drug-related offences appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Sakkcham Singh Parmaar
As India reflects on the media coverage during Operation Sindoor, questions remain over accountability and whether future crises will again feature recycled visuals, misidentified civilians, and narratives of fake conflicts.
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By David Menkes, Associate Professor in Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Doctors working in palliative care see promise in emerging therapies involving psychedelic drugs, but say many questions still need to be addressed.
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By Rachel Ong ViforJ, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
Australia has long romanticised home ownership. But with evidence linking mortgage stress to poor mental health, we can’t forget people once they get the keys.
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By Benjamin T. Jones, Associate Professor, CQUniversity Australia
Post-truth politics means emotions trump facts. The major parties would be wise to remember this when trying to combat the rise of One Nation.
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By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
Among the Romans, fathers had complete legal control over their sons and daughters. This included the right to inflict capital punishment.
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By Neil Lu, PhD student, Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, Australian National University
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren’t always silent. When two black holes are close enough to each other, they spiral towards one another, eventually crashing in an enormous explosion and forming a single, larger black hole from the combination.
During this process they emit gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and time that reach us here on Earth. These travel to us and change the distance between your nose and your ear, but by much, less than the a single atom! We are able to detect them with huge, sophisticated gravitational…
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By Morgan Carpenter, Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Bonnie Hart, PhD Candidate, School of Health, Psychological and Medical Sciences, University of Southern Queensland
Ingrid Rowlands, Senior Research Officer, Population Health Program, QIMR Berghofer and Honorary Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, around 63,300 Australians aged over 16 – 0.3% of the overall population – know they were born with variations of sex characteristics. This means their bodies don’t fit medical norms about how female or male bodies should look or function.
But the actual number is thought to be much higher, as many people don’t know about their physical…
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By Manoj Bhatta, Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Change and Environmental Health, Menzies School of Health Research
Gloria Baliva, Indigenous Researcher, Menzies School of Health Research
Supriya Mathew, Associate Professor, Environmental Health, Menzies School of Health Research
In remote Australia, First Nations communities battle extreme heat each summer.
In January 2026 alone, the town of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) endured 20 days of temperatures above 40°C. This prolonged heatwave – defined as a period of unusually hot weather – can have long-standing effects on human health,…
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By Juliana Neild, Research Assistant, The University of Melbourne
Alexander Borowiak, PhD Candidate in climate stabilisation, The University of Melbourne
Andrew King, ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
Linden Ashcroft, Senior Lecturer, Climate Science and Science Communication, The University of Melbourne
After a heatwave, we crave relief, not more extreme weather. But increasingly, we have to contend with a succession of extremes – ricocheting from extreme heat to intense storms to flooding waterways.
We saw this in the Victorian Otways region last summer, when extreme heat, fires and floods all occurred in the space of two weeks.
We studied this sudden “weather whiplash”, where a heatwave is followed by heavy rainfall, in more detail to understand which…
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