By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
One Nation’s smashing victory in Farrer fires up the insurgent party, and casts fresh doubts over the future of the Liberal Party.
The result could not be a more devastating rebuff for Liberal leader Angus Taylor, who has been found wanting after only months in the job. This puts him under even more pressure for next week’s budget reply.
The result will raise more doubts about whether, or for how long, Taylor will survive as leader, given Andrew Hastie, a political freelancer, waits in the wings.
Taylor said after the result, “For too long, we have been a party…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
One Nation has won the Farrer federal byelection – the first time the party has won an election for a federal House of Representatives seat. At the same time, the Liberal vote has crashed, with independent Michelle Milthorpe running second on Saturday night.
The byelection in the regional New South Wales seat was triggered by former Liberal leader Sussan Ley’s resignation. At the 2025 general election, Ley had defeated independent Michelle Milthorpe in Farrer by 56.2–43.8.
With 41% of enrolled…
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By R Umaima Ahmed
Even in 2026, Women journalists in Pakistan face persistent online abuse, where appearance often overshadows work, amid rising digital harassment, self-censorship, and legal concerns around cybercrime laws and enforcement gaps.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to news that five law enforcement officers in Georgia have been arrested and charged over attacks in 2024 on three people attending anti-government protests, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Deputy Director, said: “Accountability for the widespread abusive use of force by police against peaceful protesters, journalists and government critics during […] The post Georgia: Justice and accountability require more than criminal charges against five police officers for assaulting protesters appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Benoit Barbeau, Associate professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
The Andean virus is not highly transmissible between humans. But it is deadly, and the incubation period can be long, so we must remain vigilant, says the virologist.
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By Nye Davies, Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University
After all the predictions, projections and polling permutations, Welsh Labour’s defeat has been confirmed.
In 1985, Welsh historian Gwyn Alf Williams described Labour majorities standing “like Aneurin Bevan’s memorial stones”. Forty years on, the stones have finally been eroded. On the worst day for the party in its history in Wales, even its leader, Eluned Morgan, lost her seat.
After more than a century as Wales’ dominant political force, the figures and symbols that once anchored Welsh…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A police van with one of the Australian women allegedly linked to the Islamic State at the Mascot Police Station in Sydney on May 7, 2026. © 2026 Izhar Khan/Getty Images (Sydney) – Australian authorities should ensure that criminal proceedings against three Australian women who were charged on May 7 and 8, 2026, with serious alleged crimes linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) fully respect due process rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The accused are among thirteen Australians—four women and nine children—who returned to Australia after more than seven years of…
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By Aditya Narayanan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton; UNSW Sydney
Alberto Naveira Garabato, Professor, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
Alessandro Silvano, NERC Independent Research Fellow in Oceanography, University of Southampton
For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice – frozen seawater that expands around the continent each winter – appeared remarkably resilient. It was often described as the “heartbeat of the planet”.
Unlike the Arctic, where sea ice declined rapidly as the planet warmed, Antarctic sea ice showed little overall loss. It even expanded between 2007 and 2015. But that resilience has now…
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By Guest Contributor
...[T]he promise of a digital future may come at the same heavy cost to human rights and environmental justice as the floral exports that preceded it.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to news that five law enforcement officers in Georgia have been arrested and charged over attacks in 2024 on three people attending anti-government protests, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Deputy Director, said: “Accountability for the widespread abusive use of force by police against peaceful protesters, journalists and government critics during […] The post Georgia: Justice and accountability require more that criminal charges against five police officers for assaulting protesters appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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