By Henrik Emilsson, Senior lecturer, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University
For decades, Sweden was known as one of Europe’s most welcoming countries for refugees. It took pride in pursuing one of Europe’s most generous asylum policies, and often presented itself as a humanitarian role model.
But today it has one of the continent’s most restrictive migration policies. That transformation has taken little more than a decade.
The turning point came during the 2015 refugee crisis. Sweden received more than 160,000 asylum applications, more…
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By Katy Clough, Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London
The first appearance of a wormhole in Star Trek was a typically pioneering reference to what was then a niche research topic.
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By Amnesty International
“From the moment I refused to get married, I was beaten everyday” “When I was 14, my father wanted to marry me off to a cousin who was in his thirties. He’d started making arrangements for the wedding behind my back; I realized he’d already bought the fabric to have the wedding clothes made. I […] The post ‘I refused this marriage’: Meet West African women who fought for their right to education appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Daniel Angus, Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Christine Parker, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
In the same week the federal government is preparing to introduce its landmark digital duty of care legislation, it is also returning to some unfinished business: strengthening its social media age restrictions.
On Tuesday, the government will move an amendment through…
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By David Eager, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney
On Saturday, five children were hospitalised after two separate incidents in which jumping castles were lifted into the air by high winds.
In one incident, two children were tossed out of a jumping castle and received upper body injuries at a birthday party near Geelong in Victoria. In the second incident, in Sydney, two children and an infant were injured.
So should we be worried about letting kids on jumping castles? As an expert in…
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By Matt Fitzpatrick, Professor in International History, Flinders University
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has sent shock waves across Germany – and the world – by trouncing the opposition in a state election over the weekend. But will the party actually be able to govern?
In an election that saw record-high levels of voter turnout, the AfD captured more than 44% of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. This is more than double the party’s result…
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By Anne Twomey, Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
Should the federal government be constitutionally able to ban a group, resulting in stiff criminal penalties for its continuing members, even though the group has not committed any crime?
This is the dilemma the High Court is facing with the constitutional challenge by the White Australia Party to the validity of the recently enacted Part…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Pauline Hanson’s attention-grabbing policy to give mortgage holders and renters is high populism while being – according to its many critics – low economics.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2025. © 2025 Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via AP Photo Seventeen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, the latest report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, updates the current human rights situation in the country.The government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office in September 2024, promising justice for past rights violations. Yet, as the high commissioner’s September 3 report concludes, beyond…
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By Lyndall Bryant, Senior lecturer, QUT Centre for Justice, School of Econmics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology
Amanda Bull, Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology
Until we do more to tackle the causes of high construction company insolvencies, we’ll keep seeing more headlines about builders going bust.
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