By Simon Adams, Professor of Human Rights, Murdoch University
Instead of bringing people together, the World Cup is in danger of being remembered for the climate of exclusion and fear generated by one of its host nations.
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By Molly Johnston, ARC Industry Fellow, Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University
Julian Koplin, Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University; The University of Melbourne
Neera Bhatia, Associate Professor of Law (Health Law), Deakin University
In recent weeks, a female prisoner in Queensland lost her fight to have her eggs frozen while incarcerated.
Rachel Smith is currently serving a ten-year sentence for drug trafficking. She will be between 39 and 41 years of age when she is released. Smith’s fertility will decline significantly while imprisoned.
Smith was 33 when she first applied to freeze her eggs and was prepared to fund the treatment herself. She applied to Queensland Corrective Services, the Brisbane…
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By Jessica Genauer, Academic Director, Public Policy Institute, UNSW Sydney
Escalating a conflict is paradoxically one way to end it. But this strategy can be flawed, particularly in a region like the Middle East.
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By Ellen Rock, Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney
The judgment allows a man who was unlawfully detained to claim compensation from the government. It’s the latest in the ongoing fallout of the “NZYQ” case.
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By Balkan Diskurs
For young people of the region, cooperation is not a political slogan but a real experience gained through non-formal education, training, and civil society initiatives.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Health workers wearing protective equipment walk outside the General Referral Hospital during the Ebola outbreak response in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 21, 2026. © 2026 Michel Lunanga/Getty Images The Congolese government and international partners should prioritize community engagement and limit the role of security forces in responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The government and its partners need to overcome years of conflict, abuse, and neglect that have strained healthcare systems and eroded trust and that risk…
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By Amnesty International
The widespread use of risk profiling systems by public authorities in law enforcement, social security and migration is incompatible with international human rights law and must be banned, Amnesty International said in a new report. Risk profiling is the assessment of whether a person or group is likely to break a law or a rule. […] The post Global: Risk profiling systems used to identify potential offenders are in breach of international law and must be banned – new report appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
The big question now is how this new media-politics-money combination will form an effective force on the right of Australian politics.
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By Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University
Chinese scientists have discovered hundreds of ancient whale carcasses deep in the Diamantina Zone off the coast of Western Australia.
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By Steven Stern, Professor of Data Science, Bond University
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is one of the most watched events of the international sports calendar, and fans from across the globe will be trying to predict how far their team will go.
I’m a data scientist and in an attempt to forecast the eventual tournament winner, semi-finalists and teams’ chances of progressing through the group stages, I built a model to predict how the World Cup may unfold.
Here’s how I did it and what my model predicted.
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