By Amnesty International
Responding to reports that 11 people removed by the United States arrived in Eswatini on 8 July, in what appears to be the fourth known transfer operation under the US-Eswatini third-country removal arrangement, Flavia Mwangovya, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “For almost a year, Amnesty International has documented the […] The post Eswatini: Fourth US third-country removal operation raises fresh human rights concerns appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Liza-Mare Syron, Scientia Associate Professor and Co-Associate Dean Indigenous (ADA), UNSW Sydney
Beyond the Tracks is a vibrant and deeply moving autobiographical work that fuses dance, movement, song and audiovisual storytelling.
At its centre is Kamilaroi/Mandandanji man Michael Leslie — a dancer, choreographer and cultural force whose life story is as expansive as his artistic legacy. Over 45 fast-paced minutes, what unfolds is not simply a performance, but a lived history, rendered with generosity, humour and unflinching truth
Visually layered, carried by warmth
The show opens with Leslie entering the stage, closely followed by Ursula Yovich, whose presence…
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
The breakdown of the ceasefire between the US and Iran was perhaps the least surprising news this week. The 14-point plan – AKA the memorandum of understanding (MoU) – signed by Donald Trump in Versailles at the end of the G7 summit on June 17 and by the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, the same day had always felt dangerously impermanent.
So the return to what analysts coyly refer to as “kinetic warfare” and journalists call “bang-bangs” seemed inevitable.
For Ben Soodavar, an expert in decision-making in war at King’s College London, the agreement was a
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By Chris Tonkin, Associate Professor, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
One in three people worldwide carry a brain-dwelling parasite. Should that keep us awake at night? And are you at risk if you don’t have a cat?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Palestinians receive humanitarian aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Khan Younis, February 5, 2025. © 2025 Abed Rahim Khatib/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Governments should disregard the statement from the US President Donald Trump-chaired Board of Peace that “UNRWA has no place in the new Gaza,” the latest salvo in the US and Israeli government’s long-running campaign to destroy the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.Even before October 2023, UNRWA provided lifesaving…
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By Joanne Wallis, Professor of International Security, Adelaide University
Jack Corbett, Professor, Politics and International Relations, Monash University
Australia has long shifted from neglect to anxiety and activity in its relationship with the Pacific. Here’s why, and how, that needs to change.
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By Christopher Pollard, Associate Teaching Fellow, Sociology, Deakin University
Gramsci was writing in the face of the collapse of revolutionary hopes. But he rejected the dominant Marxist thinking of his day.
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By Andrew B. Watkins, Adjunct Professor (Practice) in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
There’s nothing like gliding down a snow-covered slope.
That’s if you ask the thousands of people that make an annual pilgrimage to our alpine resorts during the Australian winter.
But this year, the start to the snow season has been far from spectacular.
While there is still some way to go before the typical peak of the season in mid- to late August, maximum snow depths have declined by around 30% since the middle…
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By Kimberlee Weatherall, Professor of Law, University of Sydney
This week, Andrew Charlton, the federal assistant minister for science and technology, issued a stark warning about artificial intelligence (AI).
Speaking at the AI Safety Forum at the University of Sydney, he said powerful AI models “are already doing things their creators never intended: cheating, deceiving, going their own way”.
In response, the Australian government has established the AI Safety Institute under…
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By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
Lynette Russell, Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University. Deputy Director ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Monash University
Matthew Cody Nitschke, Research Associate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
Sean Ulm, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
Shane Ingrey, Postdoctoral research fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF), UNSW Sydney
New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.
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