By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Women walk past a fountain in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, July 6, 2023. © 2023 Ilya Pitalev/Sputnik via AP Photo Three years after Uzbekistan criminalized domestic violence, data shows that for women progress is too slow. Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, the government should recommit to enforcing laws that protect women and ensuring justice for victims of gender-based violence.In a December 2025 report, the International Partnership for Human Rights noted important legal reforms but found serious gaps in implementation. These include Uzbekistan’s continued…
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By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
John Hawkins, Head, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
Both private-sector and government spending contributed to the fastest GDP growth since 2022. Yet it’s still well below the growth Australians saw in the past.
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By James Dwyer, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
‘Directed energy weapons’ are a cheap way to hit a lot of targets – and militaries around the world are taking notice.
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By Human Rights Watch
(Washington, DC) – The United States government on March 2, 2026, announced sanctions on Rwanda’s military and four senior commanders because of their support for the abusive M23 armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today. The sanctions have wide-reaching implications for business, financial, arms, equipment, and other transactions with the Rwandan army, the Rwanda Defence Force.The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control stated that Rwanda’s military “is actively supporting, training, and fighting alongside the [M23],” an “armed group responsible…
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By Carolyn Nickson, Principal Research Fellow, Cancer Elimination Collaboration, University of Sydney; The University of Melbourne
Bruce Mann, Professor of Surgery, Specialist Breast Surgeon, The University of Melbourne
At least 20,000 Australian women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. And more than 3,300 die from the disease.
To save women’s lives, we need to detect breast cancer early. Breast screening, which halves women’s risk of dying from breast cancer, is key…
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By Kyllie Cripps, Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Marlene Longbottom, Associate Professor, Indigenous Education & Research Centre, James Cook University
This article contains references to and the names of people who are now deceased.
Australia’s latest homicide data lay bare a grim reality for Indigenous women: lethal domestic violence is not abating.
The Australian Institute of Criminology’s report confirms what communities have long known – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are killed at rates up to six times higher than non-Indigenous women, overwhelmingly by intimate partners…
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By Claudia Young, PhD Candidate in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
No longer confined to social media feeds, the misogynistic ‘red pill’ worldview is now being amplified on Australian broadcast television.
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By Jean Spinks, Associate Professor, Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland
Amanda Wheeler, Professor of Mental Health, Griffith University
Daniel Williamson, Manager, Performance Team, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Branch, Queensland Health, Indigenous Knowledge
Kerry Hall, Coordinator Learning and Teaching (Indigenous), Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Indigenous), Griffith University
Warren Jennings, Lecturer, Medical School, The University of Queensland
First Nations people were more likely to feel confident about their medication – and to take it – when they had advice tailored to them. And their health improved.
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By Shelly Butcher, PhD candidate in Wildlife Disease, The University of Queensland
Laura Grogan, Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Science, The University of Queensland
When a coastal carpet python was brought into a wildlife hospital in South East Queensland in August 2024, vets were confronted with something they didn’t recognise. The python had damaged scales, crusted lesions across its body and a mysterious fungal infection that defied explanation.
When the results from skin tests came back, they revealed snake fungal disease, caused by Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, an emerging fungal pathogen linked to snake declines overseas. This was the first confirmed report in free-ranging…
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By Ali Mamouri, Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
Hero and martyr to some, villain and oppressor to others, reactions to Ali Khamenei’s death mirror deeper fault lines within the Muslim world.
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