By Katie Robertson, Associate Director, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
Stateless people can struggle to access the most basic human rights many of us take for granted such as education, health care, the ability to work and move freely.
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By Sarah Diepstraten, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
John (Eddie) La Marca, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
UK media celebrity Jeremy Clarkson this week revealed he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
He told his co-stars about the diagnosis on air during the latest season of Clarkson’s Farm. At the time of filming, he said he didn’t know whether he would be back for another season. However, he said the cancer had been caught early and he was receiving treatment.
Clarkson specifically noted his cancer was…
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By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
Vodafone Australia suffered a major nationwide outage today that may have affected millions of customers.
Customers of Australia’s third-largest telecommunications company in Darwin, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra reported having no service for several hours early this morning.
At roughly 11am, Vodafone, which is owned by TPG Telecom, issued a statement saying it was aware customers…
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By Robert Davis, Associate Professor in Wildlife Conservation, Edith Cowan University
For months, a flood of mice has engulfed Western Australia’s agricultural regions.
For people living through it, this latest mouse plague is all-consuming. Houses, sheds, paddocks and roads are blanketed with mice. And the smell of mice, both dead and alive, is impossible to escape.
It may well be the worst plague the region has ever seen, with scientists recording up to 8,000…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A protester sits on the street with his arms up in front of federal agents and Minneapolis Police on W. 27th St and Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis after Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents in the area early Saturday morning, January 24, 2026. © 2026 Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images The Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota led to widespread human rights violations, terrorized residents, and spotlighted the deeply abusive patterns in US immigration enforcement.In…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Javokhir Muminov (left) and Djura Akbarov (right) at the Kashkadarya Regional Prosecutor's Office, Uzbekistan. © 2025 Elena Urlaeva (Berlin, June 18, 2026) – Uzbek authorities should release a local human rights activist accused of extortion and investigate his allegations of abuse in police custody, Human Rights Watch said today. Javokhir Muminov, the activist, told his lawyer on June 10, 2026, that following his arrest, police officers had beaten and suffocated him.“This criminal investigation into Javokhir Muminov, coupled with his allegations of abuse, is…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The departing Liberal frontbencher also said it’s ‘mad’ to be talking about doing deals with One Nation so far from an election.
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By Human Rights Watch
© 2026 Glenn Harvey for Human Rights Watch (Brussels, June 18, 2026) – The Bulgarian government between 2018 and 2023 licensed exports of surveillance equipment to countries that were likely to use it for internal repression or to commit serious human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said today.Human Rights Watch previously reviewed data that shows that European Union governments often seem to issue such licenses. Human Rights Watch urged EU institutions to tighten enforcement of laws intended to restrict the export of surveillance technology to places where there is a credible…
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By Jaimie Veale, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Waikato
Anti-trans policies are often described as protective, but they follow a documented pattern that creates conditions to make exclusion and harm easier to justify.
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By John Freebairn, Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
The federal government’s cut to the fuel excise is due to expire at the end of June, meaning the cost of filling up a 65-litre petrol vehicle could rise by about A$19 from July 1.
This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese left the door open to extending the temporary cut for petrol or for diesel.…
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