By Amnesty International
By Boram Jang, East Asia Researcher at Amnesty International In a Seoul courtroom in March this year, a prosecutor read out charges against Jeon Seung-il, a former art student, from an indictment first written in 1989. The language had not changed, nor had the charges. Thirty-seven years later, only the young defendant had grown old. In 1989, […] The post The political painting that is still on trial in South Korea: How the unending Korean War became a permanent excuse to criminalize expression appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Jo Carter
Japanese LGBTQ+ communities are taking to the streets to push for equal marriage rights with the slogan: "May love prevail in the Supreme Court."
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By Ricardo J. Soares Magalhaes, Professor, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in seabirds in two Australian states.
But don’t be fooled by the name: this virus also rapidly infects other animals. It has caused havoc in poultry farms and backyard chicken flocks in the northern hemisphere. And it can also infect, and
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The NDIS minister joined the podcast to discuss the government’s reforms – and what the changes mean for 160,000 Australians .
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By Mark Quigley, Associate Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
On Wednesday evening just after 6pm local time, two earthquakes violently shook northern Venezuela.
The first one struck near San Felipe, the capital of the state of Yaracuy. Just 39 seconds later, another quake struck near the town of Yumare, within 5 to 10km from the first one.
Powerful ground shaking was felt across the region, including in Venezuela’s capital Caracas about 150km east of the earthquake epicentres. Buildings
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By Andrew Norton, Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has introduced a bill under which universities face new caps on their domestic student numbers.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Amid the heated debate around multiculturalism there is a strong case for a reset of multicultural policy to make it more resilient in a changing world.
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By Júlia de Freitas Sampaio, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Luxembourg
As people across Europe are having to acclimatise to an unprecedented heatwave, coordinated responses for tackling extreme heat need to come from the top, and there’s no time to lose.
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By Andrew Fuhrmann, Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne
Lucy Guerin will step down as artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc, one of the most important and best-resourced contemporary dance companies in the country.
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By Erin Cooper-Douglas, Public Policy Editor, The Conversation
The government has granted the woman and her child a permit to come home, having previously tried to block their return. It will now be easier to manage any threats.
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