By Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
The Robodebt saga has highlighted serious concerns about corruption, as well as about the body charged with stamping it out.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Matt Canavan was once Barnaby Joyce’s staffer, and later his closest ally and most vociferous spruiker. Not to mention his best political friend.
Now, in selecting Canavan as their new leader, the Nationals have chosen him to spearhead the party’s life-and-death fight against One Nation. Its latest weapon is Joyce, who defected from the Nationals late last year.
Canavan can perhaps thank the surge in One Nation’s vote in recent months for his leadership victory. It’s a direct response to this threat. After the 2025 election, Canavan only received seven votes when he ran…
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By Melissa Phillips, Lecturer, Western Sydney University
The past 48 hours in Australia has showcased the dramatic complexities of the country’s migration and asylum landscape, and the power of ministerial intervention in this federal portfolio.
On the one hand, the federal government pulled out all stops to safeguard members of the Iranian women’s soccer team from returning to Iran – after competing in Australia at the Asian Women’s Cup – by providing them with refugee status.
On the other hand, as this…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A former bus station hosts internally displaced people who arrived in Gedarefduring during a wave of mass displacement from the Sinjar/Sannar region south of Khartoum, Sudan, July 2024. © 2024 Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images On February 26, the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway announced the formation of a coalition to prevent atrocities and promote justice in Sudan. As atrocities continue unabated the coalition has its work cut out.The announcement—by the countries that make up Sudan Core Group at the Human Rights’ Council—follows…
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By Hussein Dia, Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
Diesel powers most freight trucks. As oil prices spike, electric trucks are looking more attractive – if upfront cost and charging barriers can be overcome
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By Amnesty International
What were some of Hind’s last words to you, and do you hold the world responsible for her terrible death? I’m scared… come and get me. She said a sentence that tore my heart apart: ‘Mum, they’re lying. Stay with me!’ At that moment, I realized the betrayal. An ambulance was sent to her. It […] The post Wesam Hamada: “I want to keep Hind’s voice alive, because hers is the voice of all the children of Gaza” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay
From BNP stalwart to expelled independent, Rumeen Farhana rode the ‘duck’ symbol to a 38,000-vote victory in Brahmanbaria-2, defying harassment, party betrayal, and Bangladesh’s bruising gendered political battlefield.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Logo of the National Cyber Defense Council (Conseil national de cyberdéfense) at the entrance to the National Transport Office in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. © 2025 Human Rights Watch Congolese security forces have been responsible for numerous enforced disappearances in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, since March 2025.The Congolese government is using the National Cyber Defense Council (CNC) as a proxy to carry out arrests and detentions of political opponents on dubious grounds.The authorities should ensure that…
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By Sophie Andrews, Associate Professor and Lead, Healthy Brain Ageing Research Program, Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast
Your mind goes blank in the supermarket. What was it you meant to buy? Here’s what’s going on in your brain and when you need to see your GP.
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By John Cook, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Alex Farnsworth, Senior Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Bristol
Dan Lunt, Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol
Dann Mitchell, Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol
When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws.
For a world to be truly immersive and believable, readers apply what is known as the “principle of minimal departure”. This assumes anything not explicitly magical, such as a planet’s weather or gravity, must adhere to the laws of the real world.
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