By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
It’s a hot political issue, but the Liberals’ won’t have an immigration policy in 2026, One Nation’s position is confused and Labor has yet to announce its changes.
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By Global Voices Announcements
With this spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy.
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By Amra Lee, PhD candidate in Protection of Civilians, Australian National University
Israel’s refusal to investigate the killing of Australian Zomi Frankcom relfects a long standing problem of insufficient accountability for aid worker deaths.
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By Fei Huang, Associate professor, UNSW
Your insurer could know a lot more than just what’s on your application form. It’s worth understanding where this information comes from and how it can be used.
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By Jane Torr, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Education, Macquarie University
Try funny voices, point out objects you know and don’t worry if your child would rather just sit on the book.
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By Ben Eltham, Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
Justin O'Connor, Professor of Cultural Economy, Adelaide University
Tully Barnett, Associate Professor, Cultural Policy and Creative Industries, Adelaide University
Culture is a vital part of many people’s lives. This is the view afforded by the latest data on cultural participation from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Creative Australia and Screen Australia.
The…
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By Darryl Jones, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University
Backyard bird feeding is one of our country’s most popular pastimes. Research reveals about half of Australian households feed wild birds, with many people doing so daily.
However, this practice could act as a superspreader event – where a disease infects an unusually high number of people or animals – of the H5N1 virus. This deadly…
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By Bernard Doherty, Associate Head, School of Theology, Charles Sturt University
While the sect has some very conservative views and has been politically involved in recent years, its political impact has been limited.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A 17-year-old boy recruited by the 33rd Front of the EMBF, a dissident group of the demobilized FARC, operating in Colombia’s Catatumbo region near the Venezuelan border. © 2026 Federico Ríos Escobar Child recruitment by armed groups has risen sharply in Colombia in recent years; exploiting poverty, social exclusion, and lack of education to lure children with promises of money, power, and prestige, and increasingly using social media to do so.Colombia has established a range of policies and strategies to prevent child recruitment, and protect and rescue children,…
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By Matt Savage, PhD Candidate and Lecturer in Physiotherapy, La Trobe University
Adam Culvenor, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow in Sport and Exercise Medicine, La Trobe University
Many of these exercises deliberately bend the knee through a larger range of motion, boosting the work done by your thigh muscles. But they may not be for everyone.
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