By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Farmers walk past an alleged Eritrean army tank abandoned in Dansa, southwest of Mekele in Tigray region, Ethiopia, June 20, 2021. © 2021 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Barely a week after African leaders met in Luanda, Angola to strengthen the African Union’s conflict prevention capacity, escalating tensions in northern Ethiopia are testing whether the AU can turn early warning into action.Tensions between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the Tigray region’s main political party, have grown for over a year…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A white phosphorus munition airbursts over buildings in the town of Khiam in southern Lebanon during an Israeli bombardment on October 31, 2024. © 2024 AFP via Getty Images Recent use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in Lebanon underscores the need for new international law to regulate these devastating weapons.White phosphorus munitions can inflict excruciating burns and cause lifelong physical, psychological, and socioeconomic harm.Countries should condemn ongoing use of white phosphorus munitions, call for further international talks on the matter,…
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By Daniel Binns, Senior Lecturer, Media & Communication, RMIT University
One of Prime’s greatest hits this year has been the teen romance series Off Campus. The show follows hockey player Garrett and musician Hannah as they try to reconcile sex, adulthood, college life, and their feelings for each other.
The show makes use of a split screen on various occasions, such as when it simultaneously shows Garrett training and Hannah dancing, or both of them having a phone conversation.
In its simplest form,…
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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
In a national YouGov poll, the Pauline Hanson-led party is four points ahead of the Labor government in primary votes – a record high in this poll.
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By Heather Handley, Senior Curator of Geosciences, Museums Victoria Research Institute; Monash University
It’s hard to overstate just how big the 1883 eruptions were, and the catastrophic and often strange impacts that followed. For starters, the Moon went blue.
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By Trevor Mazzucchelli, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Curtin University
Some people seem naturally tidy. Their keys are always in the same place, clothes make it into the wardrobe, and their kitchen bench remains mysteriously visible.
Others can clean the house on Sunday and wonder by Wednesday how everything became messy again.
It’s tempting to explain this as personality: “I’m just a messy person.” And there is some truth to that. But personality isn’t destiny. Our surroundings and the small things we repeatedly do within them matter too.
In fact, changing those patterns may eventually change something about the kind of person…
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By William Partlett, Associate Professor of Public Law, The University of Melbourne
Premier Ben Carroll’s new laws, along with the building royal commission, are vital in ensuring accountability and restoring good governance in Victoria.
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By Derick M. J. Luong, Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
The NSW government has announced another legislative crackdown on organised crime after the suspected mistaken-identity killings of 23-year-old student Marco Tapia and 40-year-old Joshua Macdonald.
It is the government’s third major organised crime package in recent years.
The political spur is understandable. Multiple…
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
How will the Supreme Court justices approach the vote-by-mail case that concerns the most fundamental right in a democracy, the right to vote? A former federal judge weighs in on their task.
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By Anthony Clarke, Research Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
Jim Leary, Senior Lecturer in Field Archaeology, University of York
Long ago, the Devil stood on Howe Hill and hurled giant stones towards the town of Aldborough, roaring:
“Borobrigg keep out o’ way, for Auldbro’ town I’ll ding down!”
Fortunately for Aldborough, his aim was poor. The stones fell short, landing outside Boroughbridge instead, where they became known as the Devil’s Arrows. Or so an old Yorkshire legend tells us.
It is a dramatic explanation for one of Britain’s most extraordinary prehistoric monuments: three enormous megaliths, rising…
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