By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
To lose a defence minister in time of war is a blow. To also lose a commander-in-chief is a crisis.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Labor’s national conference has written into the party platform support for telehealth as part of voluntary assisted dying care.
The amendment, passed on a voice vote, was the first of the conference that has been contested. It said:
Labor will remove barriers that exist in federal law to the provision of end-of-life care (including via telehealth) as part of lawful access to voluntary assisted dying in the states and territories, while maintaining appropriate clinical safeguards.
Moving the amendment, Ryan Batchelor, a member of the…
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By Pape Chérif Bertrand Bassène, Senior Lecturer, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
The Gambia is often portrayed as little more than a geographical oddity, a strip of land engulfed by its much larger neighbour Senegal. It was once the centre of Senegambia, administered by Britain between 1765 and 1779. But there is another way of looking at it which reveals its importance and adds to current reflections on reparations for slavery.
Pape…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image From left to right: Bev Craig, Geraldine Coggins, Phil Eckersley, and Richard Kilpatrick, in Manchester, UK, July 8, 2026. © 2026 Gary Roberts/Sopa Images via Reuters (London) – Candidates in the upcoming Greater Manchester mayoral by-election should publicly commit to engaging with the Emirati government on its egregious human rights record if elected, Human Rights Watch and FairSquare said today in a joint letter to the candidates.The UAE has invested billions of pounds into both Manchester and its football club, Manchester City. July 24, 2026 …
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By Liza-Mare Syron, Scientia Associate Professor and Co-Associate Dean Indigenous (ADA), UNSW
The new play by award-winning playwright Jane Harrrison examines who has the authority to tell Aboriginal stories, and how they should be told.
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By Ronnie Das, Associate Professor in Data Science, Sports Analytics and AI, The University of Western Australia; Audencia
Sara Louise Walker, Professor of Energy, University of Birmingham
The bid committee for the 2026 World Cup aimed for a carbon neutral event. Green groups predicted an environmental disaster. Who was right?
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By Meg Elkins, Associate Professor in Economics, RMIT University
For decades, economists have used everything from lipstick to underpants to work out how people really feel about spending money.
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By Shawna Mastro Campbell, Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, Bond University
Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, Professor of Psychology, Griffith University
Tanya Hawes, Program Co-ordinator/ Psychologist, Griffith University
Children thrive when parents are warm and responsive to their needs, while also providing clear guidance and setting limits. This is known as authoritative parenting.
But most parents will tell you authoritative parenting is easier said than done, especially when children have frequent intense emotions, big behaviours, meltdowns and outright defiance.
These challenges can lead parents to wish they had a parenting coach helping them know what to do and say.
Parent-child interaction therapy aims to do just that. It has been used in parts of Australia for
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By Amnesty International
Two Black women on the movement reshaping Brazil Jurema: “Black women live surrounded by risks” Jurema Werneck is Executive Director of Amnesty International Brazil and was on the frontlines, campaigning for justice for murdered politician, Marielle Franco… I was born in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, in Copacabana, exposed from an early age to […] The post “Activism is the way we learned to see the world” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Chris Tan, Associate Professor in Veterinary Surgery, University of Sydney
If you’ve been anywhere near the internet in recent days, you will likely have seen the viral footage of “Jimothy”: an unusually round raccoon in Seattle that hops and skips along in video filmed by local resident Kiana Hall.
This animal has a very rare congenital deformity called short spine syndrome, where the spine fails to develop properly in utero.
In fact, the condition can affect dogs, calves and other mammals – but is so vanishingly rare that in my entire career, having treated thousand and thousands of small animals, I have never seen a clinical case…
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