By Bronwyn Lea, Associate Professor in Australian Literature and Writing, The University of Queensland
Are judges of literary awards and fellowships now being asked to assess not just the work, but the writer too?
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By Giselle Woodley, Lecturer and Research Fellow in Communications and Sexologist, Edith Cowan University
Megan Lim, Head of Young People's Health Research, Burnet Institute
New rules aimed at protecting kids online are now in force, but a major porn company has all but shut down its Australian presence instead.
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By Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University
Even though the deployment is defensive in nature, it could still be seen by Iran as support for the US-Israeli air offensive.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Reserve Bank’s Andrew Hauser told The Conversation’s podcast inflation is likely to be higher than projected before the war in the Middle East broke out.
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By Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Professor of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
Oil is a key feedstock for everything from plastics to cosmetics. Over time, we’re likely to see less oil burned for transport – and more used to make products.
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By Human Rights Watch
.paragraph--id--11756 .pb-video { padding-bottom: 73.25%; } Click to expand Image People look out at a street in the Simon-Pele neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 22, 2025. © 2025 Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo (Washington, DC) – Haitian security forces and private contractors working with them have conducted extensive and apparently unlawful lethal drone strikes, Human Rights Watch said today. The strikes, at least some of which appear to be deliberate extrajudicial killings, have been carried out with quadcopter drones armed with explosives in densely populated urban…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Screenshot of a video shared online on January 29 and geolocated by Human Rights Watch showing at least 11 tank trucks burnt or still in flames on the road about seven kilometers south of Ambidédi village. Source: https://x.com/SalahMo73628462/status/2016965739027017797 (Nairobi) – An Al-Qaeda-linked armed group summarily executed ten long-haul truck drivers and two teenage apprentices in late January 2026 in southwestern Mali, Human Rights Watch said today. The killings, in an attack on a fuel convoy, are apparent war crimes.On January 29, the Group for the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Lawmakers in Ghana have reintroduced a draconian bill that jeopardizes the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. On February 17, the Ghanaian parliament formally received the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, also known as the anti-LGBT bill, marking the latest chapter in a prolonged legal and legislative process that started in 2021. Click to expand Image Queer rights activist Angel Maxine opposing the anti-LGBT bill in Accra, Ghana. © Angel Maxine Ghana’s parliament first passed a version of the bill in February 2024, but it expired without…
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By Amnesty International
Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink, said Amnesty International today. Amid Israel’s deliberate imposition of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza, Palestinian women face compounded and […] The post Israel’s genocide in Gaza inflicts compounded harms on women and girls appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Cécile Yougbare, activist in Côte d’Ivoire: “I refuse to let women die from clandestine abortions when solutions exist” I am a human rights defender. I specialize in challenges related to women’s health because several factors, such as unsafe abortions, continue to cause preventable deaths among girls and women. For 20 years, both through my community and professional […] The post Three abortion rights defenders share their stories of hope appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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