By Natalie Klein, Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney
In the law of naval warfare, the line between belligerents and neutrals is not always an easy one to draw.
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By Justine Poplin, Teaching Associate, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University
From state-backed mega museums to privately-funded contemporary art spaces, the expansion of China’s galleries, libraries, archives and museums – or “GLAM” – sector is reshaping how the nation narrates its past and imagines its future.
China’s museum sector has expanded at an unmatched pace this century. From 2010 to 2024, a new museum has opened, on average, every 1.5 days. There…
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By Peter Edwell, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University
Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural.
Some ancient thinkers, however, suspected the gods had nothing to do with it.
They wondered, centuries ahead of their time, if lightning was related somehow to the movement of air and clouds.
A reminder of power and wrath
In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, thunder and lightning strikes were the prime weapon of Zeus (the king of the gods, known to the Romans as Jupiter). Reminders of…
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By Benjamin D Tombs, Pūkenga-Lecturer in Property Law, University of Otago
Judy Lawrence, Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Rob Bell, Teaching Fellow, Environmental Planning Programme, University of Waikato
In the aftermath of another summer of weather disasters, there were headlines about a “growing gap” between recovery efforts and preparation for climate change impacts.
There were calls for a rethink of how New Zealand approaches natural hazards and for decision-makers
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image South Koreans in Seoul watch a news broadcast showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter visiting the undisclosed manufacturing site for a nuclear-powered submarine, December 24, 2025. © 2025 Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images via AP Photo While breaking news stories capture our attention—North Korea’s recent launching of 10 ballistic missiles grabbed headlines—there’s a tendency to ignore long running but dire issues such as North Korea’s ongoing human rights crisis. On March 13, the United Nations special rapporteur on North Korea, Elizabeth Salmón, reminded…
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By Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Assistant Professor in Health Ethics, Simon Fraser University
What Canada’s response to AI protocols in the wake of the Tumbler Ridge tragedy gets wrong, and what durable governance actually requires.
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By Jeannie Marie Paterson, Professor of Law (consumer protections and credit law), The University of Melbourne
More than 8 million customers could have a stake in this upcoming court case. The clock is now ticking for them to decide if they want to be involved, or opt out.
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By Tracey Varker, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
Meaghan O'Donnell, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
Psychedelic drug MDMA may help people manage PTSD symptoms. But it should only be used in certain contexts, according to two trauma experts.
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By Sara Webb, Course Director, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
Project Hail Mary reminds us how important our world is – and how vital science is to our continued existence on it.
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By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Associate Professor, Chair of Linguistics and Director of Language Lab, The University of Western Australia
I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.
After four decades researching language and linguistics, that response now seems almost absurd. But it reflects a common bias among those of us raised in text-based cultures. We tend to view written language as the ultimate form of expression, knowledge transmission and even thinking itself.
Yet linguists know that speech…
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