By Se Youn Park, Sessional academic, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government will not help repatriate the 34 Australian women and children with links to Islamic State fighters who were released from a detention camp in Syria and are reportedly trying to return to Australia.
The women and children were among more than 2,000 people from 50 different countries detained at al-Roj camp in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria. The Australians were turned back by Syrian officials…
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By Fethi Mansouri, Deakin Distinguished Professor/UNESCO Chair-holder; Founding Director, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Racism is a “widespread” and “systemic” problem in Australian universities, a major new report has found. According to the Australian Human Rights Commission, about 80% of surveyed Indigenous, Chinese, African, Jewish and Middle Eastern students and staff say they have experienced racism at university.
Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman described the findings in the Racism@Uni report as sometimes “harrowing reading”.…
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By Jenna Imad Harb, Research Fellow, Australian National University
Kirsty Anantharajah, Research fellow, University of Canberra
When Bad Bunny and his dancers scaled power poles during his Super Bowl performance, he wasn’t just entertaining millions. He was spotlighting how Puerto Rico’s chronic power outages are a legacy of its…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Farmers outside the “Sampling Room” at a Fergana Region cotton collection point (ginnery), September 2023. © 2023 Uzbek Forum The Uzbek government is violating the human and labor rights of cotton and wheat farmers through a coercive state production system, including penalties such as land seizure for not meeting quotas. Though the government has ended state-imposed forced labor of cotton pickers in the cotton harvest and has committed to broader reforms, the remaining system of strategic crop cultivation and production in Uzbekistan still creates a risk…
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By Kerry Brown, Professor of Employment and Industry, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
A recent case before the Fair Work Commission has revealed the limits of being able to work a second job when you are employed full time.
An employee was sacked for holding a second job, which he says he had fully disclosed to his employer. The worker took his case to the Fair Work Commission, claiming he was unfairly dismissed by his employer.
Dismissal is the termination for a breach of conditions of employment. An employee may go to the Fair Work Commission and make a claim…
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By Benjamin Miller, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
Dashiell Moore, DECRA Fellow in English and Writing, University of Sydney
Novelist Alexis Wright has described Lionel Fogarty as Aboriginal literature’s ‘poet laureate’. His was a life of energy, art, yarning, poetry and politics.
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By Sebastian Maslow, Associate Professor, International Relations, Contemporary Japanese Politics & Society, University of Tokyo
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) got a historic landslide victory in last week’s parliamentary elections.
This marks the first time since its founding in 1955 that the conservative LDP controls a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house. If necessary, Takaichi’s cabinet could also overrule any opposition in the upper house of the Diet (Japan’s parliament), where her coalition still lacks a majority.
Given this, Takaichi now has a massive mandate to push her agenda. This includes boosting defence spending, strengthening…
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By Evelyn Parr, Research Fellow in Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University
Intermittent fasting has become a buzzword in nutrition circles, with many people looking to it as a way to lose weight or improve their health.
But new research from the Cochrane Collaboration shows intermittent fasting is no more effective for weight loss than receiving traditional dietary advice or even doing nothing at all.
In this international review, researchers assessed 22 studies involving 1,995 adults who were classified as overweight (with a body mass index…
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By James J Bell, Professor of Marine Biology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Christopher Cornwall, Lecturer in Marine Biology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Ohad Peleg, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biological Sciences, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Sewage spills are often seen as short-term public health crises. But the ecological impacts can be lasting, especially if combined with marine heatwaves and storms.
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By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, Adelaide University
Robert Duvall, who has died at the age of 95, will be remembered for a glittering career that saw him appear in two of American cinema’s most iconic films. But let’s not forget the other hundred or so more across a career spanning six decades.
Duvall was as comfortable in disposable fare like Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) as he was in thoughtful dramas such as True Confessions (1983).
In 1990 alone, he played Tom Cruise’s mentor in the NASCAR epic Days of Thunder followed by The Commander in Volker Schlöndorff’s…
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