By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
When opposition started talking about cutting immigration it would have thought, on the basis of polling, that it was tapping into a vein of political gold.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy, Andrew Charlton, has flagged the government is looking to regulate AI companies by forcing them to run rigorous “risk management” processes.
Called “systems regulation”, the approach would place “the onus on companies to build and run a rigorous process for finding, testing, reporting on and managing the risks of their systems”.
They would then be held “accountable for whether that process works,” Charlton said in a speech to the Sydney Trust and Safety Festival on the Regulation of AI.
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By Connectas
From droughts to floods and fires, El Niño is exposing vulnerabilities in Latin America’s food systems by putting farmers, food supplies and household budgets under growing pressure across the region.
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By Charles T. Hunt, Professor in Global Security, Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University
Julie Boulton, Research Fellow, College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University
Pia Treichel, Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, RMIT’s Pacific Initiative in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
Tim Flannery, Honorary Fellow, Australian Museum
Electricity in the Pacific is currently among the least reliable and most expensive in the world. Switching to renewables offers huge benefits.
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By Human Rights Watch
Blogger Sirojiddin Adilov’s October 5 conviction on dubious extortion and fraud charges raises serious questions about fair trial standards in Uzbekistan, as well as the government’s commitment to upholding freedom of expression. Click to expand Image Sirojiddin Adilov, September 2026. © 2026 Abdurakhmon Tashanov A criminal court sentenced Adilov—who ran “Sirojiddin Media,” a YouTube channel with over 915,000 subscribers—to four years in a prison colony for committing extortion in the case of one individual and fraud in the case of two others. The court also ordered that he pay…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human rights defender, Naji Fateel. © Private (Beirut) – Bahraini authorities have rearrested at least nine men who had previously been released from prison by royal pardon, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and Human Rights Watch said today. The men, who were previously detained on politically motivated charges, were arrested in July and August 2026 for allegedly failing to pay fines dating back a decade. Bahraini authorities should immediately release them and cease all efforts to collect the dubious unpaid fines.“King Hamad bin Isa…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image “An ICE agent told me to sign for deportation to Chad. I refused . . . The ICE agent said, ‘I don’t care, I’m going to sign it myself.’ . . . I said, ‘I’m going to talk to my lawyer,’ but he said, ‘It’s too late.’ . . . I don’t know what happened, maybe later they changed their minds, because we ended up in Cameroon. . . . Even before we got on the plane, we asked where we were going, and they told us, ‘You’ll find out when you arrive.’” – Tesfay T., 35, an Ethiopian man deported to Cameroon. © 2026 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch The United States has sent more…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A teacher conducting a lesson at the private Parents' Hope Nursery and Primary School in Namayingo district. © 2022 ISER The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on Uganda to significantly expand government support for early childhood education and provide free, state-run pre-primary education to all children.In its latest review of Uganda’s record on children’s rights, issued October 1, the Committee expressed concern about high numbers of children out of school due to financial barriers, and highlighted “very limited access to early…
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By Amnesty International
How did your husband end up a faith leader? Before becoming a pastor, Wang Lin worked as a lawyer. In 2006, after he became a Christian, he left the legal profession, enrolled in seminary, and spent several years in the US pursuing theological studies. We returned to China at the end of 2017 and Wang […] The post China’s crackdown on house churches: An interview with Su Ziming, wife of detained Chinese pastor Wang Lin appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By David Lees, Reader in French Studies, University of Warwick
The student demonstrations that have spread across France in recent weeks are not unprecedented. Indeed, commentators have been quick to point to comparisons with the events of May and June 1968, where, at their peak, more than 10 million students and workers took to the streets.
In 1968, as now, there were legitimate reasons for protest. The unrest began at the Nanterre campus of the University…
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