By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Students taking a group photo. © 2016 Owen Franken/Getty Images Australia’s eSafety commissioner issued an advisory on July 28 urging schools to review how they share images online, citing a rise in the misuse of school photos. Between January and March 2026, the commissioner received over 100 reports concerning anonymous accounts targeting schools and school staff through misuse of images taken from official school websites and social media accounts. Much of the content, shared on platforms including TikTok and Instagram, involved artificial intelligence…
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By Brandy Hadley, Professor of Finance and Distinguished Professor of Applied Investments, Appalachian State University
D. Brian Blank, Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
Fresh off a divided Fed vote to hold rates, policymakers confront a deeper question: Which of conflicting inflation gauges should guide them?
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By Anna Turns, Senior Environment Editor, The Conversation
This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.
The world is burning. As ferocious wildfires spread across Europe, some people continue to fly off to the continent on their holidays, seemingly unaware of the extreme dangers facing thousands of people.
Better climate reporting could help to bridge this gap. There is often…
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By Benjamin Goodair, Postdoctoral Researcher, Privatisation of Health and Social Care Services, London School of Economics and Political Science
Prime minister Andy Burnham announced on Wednesday his commitment to improving England’s social care system.
If the new prime minister has his way, England will legislate a new national care service within the next two years. Burnham will also seek to make social care more person-centred, ensure it’s better aligned with the NHS and remove…
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By Khondokar Humayun Kabir, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph
Ataharul Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Capacity Development and Extension, University of Guelph
Ottawa’s $3-billion National Food Security Strategy funds greenhouses, food terminals and processing plants, but not the advisors who help farmers put any of it to work.
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By Daryl Higgins, Professor & Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
It has been a tumultuous and frightening time for Australian families and educators. For more than a year, there has been a litany of claims of abuse and poor standards across the early childhood sector.
Friday marks 12 months since the federal government passed major legislation to try and improve safety…
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By John Hawkins, Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
The US dollar is said to benefit from ‘exorbitant privilege’ in international trade. But history shows that may not last.
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By Kaitlyn Hammond, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Northern British Columbia
Craig Nitschke, Professor in Forest and Landscape Dynamics, The University of Melbourne
Patrick Baker, Director of the AFWI Centre for Climate Smart Forestry and Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, The University of Melbourne
Raphael Trouve, Senior Research Fellow in Forest Dynamics and Statistical Modelling, The University of Melbourne
What’s the best way to manage a forest? Australians have argued about this for decades. The debate is often framed as binary: do we protect forests entirely, or harvest trees to support local economies and communities?
The reality is more interesting, as our new research on a long-forgotten experiment in Victoria’s mountain ash forests reveals.
Since the 1970s, scientists and the public have questioned…
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By Mary-Anne Lea, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Marine/Polar Predator Ecology, University of Tasmania
Christopher Chapman, Senior Lecturer in Oceanography, UNSW
Could marine heatwaves in the cold Southern Ocean be making animals and birds migrate? It’s possible – but we need better monitoring to know.
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By Simon Avenell, Professor in Modern Japanese History, Australian National University
Japan’s leader says the country needs a stronger military. This has prompted deep reflection and fierce debate about the country’s post-war legacy.
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