By Laura
Climate change negatively impacts human, animal, and plant species. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), this crisis is leading beehives, which are vital to food security, to run dry.
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By Sam Bennett, Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute
Reilly Polaschek, Associate, Grattan Institute
Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has grown too big, too fast.
The NDIS is a government-funded program providing support to more than 760,000 disabled Australians. It launched in 2013 as a way to make disability support more accessible and equitable.
But public support for the NDIS is faltering.…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Liberal candidate Raissa Butkowski has drawn top position on the ballot paper for the May 9 Farrer byelection, in a field of a dozen candidates.
While she will be at the top of the ballot paper Butkowski, a lawyer with a community legal service and an Albury councillor, has a massive struggle in the contest. The byelection is to replace as member former Liberal leader Sussan Ley, who quit parliament after being ousted from the leadership.
The frontrunners are Independent Michelle Milthorpe, who has an education background and won 20% of the vote at the last election, and…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People pass through a destroyed section of Omdurman, Sudan on May 25, 2025. © 2025 Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images (Berlin) – Leaders meeting in Berlin on April 15, 2026, the three-year mark of ongoing conflict in Sudan, should commit to concrete, time-bound measures to protect civilians and to hold those responsible for serious international crimes to account, Human Rights Watch said today.Germany, the African Union, France, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States will meet in Berlin to address the conflict between…
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By Amnesty International
Nearly two months after the approval of the amnesty law intended to grant freedom to people prosecuted and detained for political reasons in Venezuela, Amnesty International reminds the Venezuelan authorities that its implementation must not rely on discretionary criteria that perpetuate the political repression the law is, in theory, intended to remedy. In this regard, […] The post Venezuela: Amnesty law must not become a mechanism of repression appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
Pope Leo XIV does not claim to direct political outcomes. He claims the right, and the duty, to judge them.
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By Warlpa Thompson, Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owner of Mutawintji National Park, Indigenous Knowledge
Jodi Rowley, Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney
Thomas Parkin, Research Officer, Herpetology, Australian Museum
Hidden among the red sandstone escarpments of Mutawintji National Park in western New South Wales lives a rare lizard, long isolated in this arid landscape.
Known to Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owners as kungaka – “the hidden one” – we have now scientifically described it as a new species: Liopholis mutawintji.
For decades, this little lizard was thought to be an isolated population of a widespread skink. However, through a research collaboration between Wiimpatja…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A Taylor government would make conformity with Australian values legally binding for immigrants, and make non-citizens wait longer for access to the social security system.
Outlining the first instalment of the Coalition’s long-awaited tougher approach to immigration, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor on Tuesday also said the 1700 who came to Australia from Gaza after the outbreak of the Middle East conflict presented a high risk and “must be re-assessed entirely with far greater scrutiny”.
Taylor said in a Tuesday speech to the Menzies Research Centre that was attended by…
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By Allison Harell, Professor of Political Science, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Daniel Rubenson, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Laura Stephenson, Professor of Political Science, Western University
Lewis Krashinsky, Postdoctoral fellow, Political Science, University of Toronto
Instead of assessing parties along familiar ideological lines, many Canadian voters approached the 2025 election based on who could best protect the country from the U.S. That’s seemingly still the case.
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By Robert Horvath, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University
Viktor Orbán had consolidated his power and taken over state institutions, but Magyar found his Achilles’ heel – growing public anger over corrupt elites.
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