Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Three years into the devastating conflict in Sudan, nearly four million displaced people have returned to their places of origin across the country, only to face “another struggle for survival”, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
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By Chris Evans, Emeritus Professor, School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, UNSW Sydney
We don’t inflation-proof any other parts of the tax system, so why should we give special treatment to capital gains?
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By Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
Frustrations at slow global climate talks has led more than 50 nations to begin plans to phase out fossil fuels – even as oil shocks raise the stakes.
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By Thomas Pace, Researcher and Lecturer at the Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast
Roger Koenig-Robert, Senior Research Fellow, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney; UNSW Sydney
There’s a lot going on in your brain all the time. To power your imagination, the neurons need some silence.
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By Fotini Vasilopoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher, Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
For children, rocks can be spaceships. Pens can be fairies. And this kind of play can help protect mental health in childhood, according to new research.
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By Laura Davy, Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Computers promise to replace fallible human judgement with something more consistent, efficient and fair. But this isn’t always the case.
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By Alexandra Aikhenvald, Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow, Jawun Research Institute, CQUniversity Australia
When the Crusaders descended upon the eastern shores of the Mediterranean at the end of the 11th century, they had to communicate with each other, with traders and with locals.
Many of them spoke different Romance languages: Italian (especially from the then powerful city-states of Venice and Genoa), Provençal, French or their forerunner, Latin.
Most Westerners in southern Europe were French, especially from between Marseilles and Genoa, from where ships and traders sailed towards the Middle East. These…
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By Gwenda Tavan, Adjunct Associate Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
Malcolm Fraser was one of the country’s longest-serving prime ministers. His support of multicultural policy forever changed Australia’s social fabric.
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By Mark Beeson, Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
Alexander Stubb’s book Triangle of Power is a reminder that we are a quite intelligent species, even if we continue to do unbelievably stupid things.
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the EU’s failure to call for a vote to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement or to agree on any other concrete measures today at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns said: “At this point, the EU’s decision to maintain its trade […] The post EU: Failure to suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement shows contempt for civilian lives appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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