Indian Authorities Stop Australian Journalist from Covering Elections

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Journalists protest against authorities’ growing restrictions on media, outside the Press Club of India, New Delhi, India, February 18, 2021. © 2021 Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) Australian journalist Avani Dias left India on April 19 after the government did not extend her journalist visa until moments before it was due to expire – the latest example of foreign writers, journalists, academics, and activists being denied access to India for seemingly political reasons. Dias, who works for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and had been…

Read complete article

~	The steamiest movie of the year has almost no sex in it. How did Challengers do it?

~	Can I take your order – and your data? The hidden reason retailers are replacing staff with AI bots

~	Surgery is the default treatment for ACL injuries in Australia. But it’s not the only way

~	Curious Kids: why do trees have bark?

~	The Australian public service is letting Indigenous people down. How do we fix it?

~	How one Jamaican woman’s trauma inspired a ‘Circle of Care’ for survivors of sexual abuse

~	Hundreds of cities have achieved zero road deaths in a year. Here’s how they did it

~	What does the new Commonwealth Prac Payment mean for students? Will it do enough to end ‘placement poverty’?

~	UK Tories perform badly at local elections; Labor still narrowly ahead in Australian polls

~	A Critical Week for Environmental Rights in Southeast Asia