By Claudia Bull, Postdoctoral research fellow, Deakin University
Daryl Higgins, Professor & Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
The central aim of any child protection system is in the name: protect children. But over the years, inquiries and media reports have shown fulfilling this goal has too often proved tragically elusive.
In response, governments across the country have poured more and more money into their child protection systems…
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By Vince Craig, Professor, Materials Physics, Australian National University
Noura Alzaidan, PhD Candidate, Materials Physics, Australian National University
As the United States approaches 250th birthday celebrations on July 4, Washington DC’s monuments, statues and fountains are being prepared to put on a show.
However, renovations of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool haven’t gone to plan.
Soon after the renovations were complete, an…
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By Ria Aiyar, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Dentistry, Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Adelaide University
Nicolas Reid, PhD Candidate, Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, Adelaide University
Good oral health is more than having healthy teeth and gums. Indigenous people told researchers why it’s central to their wider health and wellbeing.
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By Tanya Kizovski, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Brock University
This is the first evidence that the mineral garnet may have been formed within the crust of Mars itself, heralding clues to the planet’s complex history.
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By Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut by veins and stewed by deep time.
Their survival is remarkable. Most rocks this old have moved back into Earth’s interior. These ones, still on the surface, have changed, but not enough to erase their first story.
In places, they still preserve the rounded forms of pillow basalts – lava that erupted underwater and cooled on an ancient sea floor.
The same rock record…
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By Amnesty International
By Khanyo Farisè In Eswatini’s second biggest city of Manzini, Sisanda Mavimbela is once again preparing for court. As the Co-Director of Programmes and Advocacy for Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities (ESGM), a group which works to advance LGBTI rights, Sisanda has become all too familiar with the ritual of gathering documents, revisiting judgments, speaking […] The post The Courage of Swazi LGBTI Activists Facing Repression appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the life sentences given by Quetta’s Anti-Terrorism court to Baloch activists Mahrang Baloch and Sibghat Ullah Shah Jee on 22 June over their involvement in a 2024 protest during which a security officer was killed, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Acting Regional Director for South Asia, said: “This verdict, which is an affront to […] The post Pakistan: Authorities must immediately release Baloch activists handed life sentences following secret trial appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Gina Romero
Digital surveillance does much more than steal data. It inflicts deep human wounds; it stops people from safely developing and expressing their identities, breeds trauma that can last for generations, and fractures the human mind.
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By Gerard Di Trolio, PhD candidate, Labour Studies, McMaster University
Canada supports the first international treaty protecting platform workers. The same government is weighing a proposal that could make it difficult to legally strike in the rail and marine sectors.
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
More than 10,000 attorneys who worked for the US government have left their jobs during the second Trump administration; a former federal judge analyzes the impact of that exodus.
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