By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
Tamika Worrell, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
New research positions AI not as a standalone tool, but as part of a wider system that shapes relationships between people, institutions, data and Country.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The government will slash spending in real terms on the National Disability Insurance Scheme over four years, as it undertakes a massive “reset” of the program.
People with lower support needs will be moved off the scheme and over the next two years the average spending on plans will reduce to about A$26,000 – back to where it was in 2023 – down from the current $31,000.
Spending on third parties who manage most NDIS plans and claims will be cut by 30%, and more providers will need to be registered, particularly those giving personal care.
Announcing the crackdown,…
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By Samantha Hepburn, Professor of Law, Deakin University
Politicians and environmental groups are renewing calls for a 25% tax on Australia’s gas exports. An energy law expert explains how it would work.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Smoke billows over the Mississippi River in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. October 15, 2023. © 2023 Eli Reed for Human Rights Watch This Earth Day arrives at a sobering moment as the EPA continues to erase the safeguards it was created to uphold.The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in 1970, following the first Earth Day, expressly to protect human health and the environment. But, since President Donald Trump’s second term began, rapid-fire policy shifts have pivoted the agency away from public health.Since January of 2025, the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Internally displaced people carry food parcels during a distribution at Seba Care displaced persons camp in Mekelle, Tigray region, Ethiopia, July 19, 2024. © 2024 MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images Authorities and security forces in Ethiopia’s contested Western Tigray Zone are arbitrarily detaining ethnic Tigrayans and severely restricting their movements, employment, and access to services.The Ethiopian government and their international partners seem determined to ignore the treatment of Tigrayans as effectively second-class citizens.The Ethiopian government…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Hungarians march in downtown Budapest to protest against a new law banning LGBTQ+ Pride events and the populist government's restriction on assembly rights, May 1, 2025. © 2025 Denes Erdos/AP Photo (Budapest, April 22, 2026) – The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling on April 21, 2026, against Hungary’s 2021 anti-LGBT law is an important rejection of efforts to stigmatize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today. The court found that the 2021 law, which attempts to stigmatize LGBT people under…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2025. © 2025 Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images (Seoul, April 22, 2026) – South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s decision to co-sponsor the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on North Korea reaffirms South Korea’s longstanding commitment to freedom, democracy, and the rule of law, said 25 human rights organizations in a joint statement today.The resolution, adopted by consensus on March 30, 2026, at the council’s 61st session, maintains international scrutiny of grave abuses in…
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By Thileepan Naren, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University; Curtin University
Shalini Arunogiri, Addiction Psychiatrist, Associate Professor, Monash University
Prescriptions for ADHD have grown 11-fold in 20 years. As GPs begin to prescribe ADHD medication, will this rise again?
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By Rebecca Strating, Director, La Trobe Centre for Global Security, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
Tony Bacic, Emeritus Professor of Plant Biology, La Trobe University
Access to open sea lanes is critical not just for economic prosperity, but for ensuring Australians can reliably access food.
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By Hamid R. Jamali, Professor, School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University
Edward Luca, Course Director and Senior Lecturer, Information Studies, Charles Sturt University
Simon Wakeling, Lecturer, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University
‘Diamond open access’ means research is free to read, free to publish. It’s a public good – but it relies on volunteer labour.
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