By Phoebe Hart, Associate Professor, Film Screen & Animation, Queensland University of Technology
Members of the Australian screen industry have been shocked to learn one of the nation’s most successful and prolific production companies, Matchbox Pictures – and its subsidiary Tony Ayres Productions – will shut their doors this week.
Matchbox was closed by its parent company, Universal International Studios, and the closure has resulted in…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers remarks at the 2024 National Healthcare Congress at the Kremlin, in Moscow, October 29, 2024. © 2024 Mikhail Sinitsyn/Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock Russian authorities are restricting access to safe abortion care and limiting the ability of women and girls to get accurate information about their reproductive choices.Russian authorities are jeopardizing women’s rights, health, and even lives, as part of their harmful “traditional values” crusade and effort to boost population growth.These policies…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Exterior of the Swedish Migration Agency's offices in Stockholm, March 9, 2022. © 2022 ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect Ayla, 21, Jomana, 18, and Ilya, 19, came to Sweden as children, though at different ages and under different circumstances. Today they face the same reality: all have been ordered to leave the country alone while their families remain.These cases stem from Sweden’s increasingly restrictive migration policy, under which young people who turn 18 before obtaining permanent residency are no longer considered part of their parents’…
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By Clement Sefa-Nyarko, Lecturer in Security, Development and Leadership in Africa, King's College London
Clean technologies depend on critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt. Over 65% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nearly 40% of the world’s manganese is mined in South Africa. Substantial deposits of lithium are found in Zimbabwe. Ghana is emerging as a miner of that mineral of lithium too.
What’s less well understood is how the supply chains of these minerals are assessed and managed.…
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By Maria O'Sullivan, Associate Professor of Law, Member of Deakin Cyber and the Centre for Law as Protection, Deakin University, Deakin University
Multiple states have moved to tighten protest rules and increase police powers. But these laws aren’t adequately balancing public safety with human rights.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The newly installed Liberal deputy leader talks about the turnaround in her fortunes, the spectre of WorkChoices, and why she doesn’t believe in quotas for women.
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By Tammy Williams, Lecturer, University of New England
Marg Rogers, Associate professor, University of New England
Ratios are presented as a simple safeguard. But how they work in practice can be very different to how they look on paper
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By Neeraj Sharma, Scientia Associate Professor of Chemistry and ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
Big batteries used in electric vehicles and grid storage have long relied on metals with tarnished supply chains. But this is changing.
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By Ilayaraja Subramanian, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Canterbury
As ChatGPT moves toward ads, fears about manipulation are rising. But if designed well, advertising inside AI could help fund access while making shopping easier.
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By Marten Risius, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
Johannes Sedlmeir, Acting Professor of Statistics, Security & Trust, University of Münster
Online chat service Discord has announced it will begin testing age verification for some users, joining a growing list of platforms trying to work out who is actually behind the screen.
The move comes as governments around the world push for stronger protections of young people online. The United Kingdom and France have imposed age verification…
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