By William Gourlay, Teaching Associate in Politics & International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University
A Turkish proverb – düştüğün yerden kalk – counsels that one should arise from where one has fallen.
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and main rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey’s 2028 election, has taken this advice to heart.
Imprisoned in March on charges widely viewed to be concocted, İmamoğlu refuses to be silenced. Earlier this month, he published a by-invitation…
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By Stephen Espiner, Associate Professor, Department of Tourism, Sport & Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Charging entry fees at world-famous destinations like Milford Sound and expanding commercial use of public land would raise money. How it’s spent is the challenge.
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By Daniel You, Clinical Lecturer USYD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist FRANZCP, University of Sydney
Micah Boerma, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland
Yuen Siew Koo, Clinical Supervisor, Psychology, Macquarie University
It’s no surprise these lifelike AI companions are attractive to lonely people. But for some, these relationships are harmful and even dangerous.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Brazilian Senate in Brasilia, February 1, 2021. © 2021 Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images Today, Brazil’s Senate passed a long-awaited bill to protect children’s rights online. The bill now heads for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s signature into law.If enacted, this legislation would impose sweeping digital safety and privacy safeguards for children. It would compel tech companies to design products with young users’ best interests in mind and provide children with the highest levels of privacy by default.Two of the bill’s strongest provisions respond…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Refugees at the Mae La refugee camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, March 5, 2025. © 2025 Valeria Mongelli/Anadolu via Getty Images On August 26, Thailand’s cabinet approved measures allowing Myanmar refugees living in camps along the border to work legally. For many, it will be the first formal employment of their lives. About 108,000 refugees live in the nine camps that have sheltered people fleeing Myanmar military abuses since the 1980s. Nearly half were born there. The new work permits will only be available to about 80,000 refugees registered with the Thai government,…
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By Danita Catherine Burke, Senior Research Fellow, Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark
The EU has failed to engage Greenlandic people in public consultations that are part of its review of its seal trade regulations.
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By Martin Brueckner, Pro Vice Chancellor, Sustainability, Murdoch University
Charles Roche, Lecturer in Sustainability and Development, Murdoch University
Tauel Harper, Associate Professor in Communications and Media, Murdoch University
Solar on rooftops and EVs on the roads can give a false sense of progress. But it will take much more to actually end reliance on fossil fuels.
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By Drew Terasaki Hart, Ecologist, CSIRO
The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows that this notion is far too simple.
We present an unprecedented and intimate portrait of the seasonal cycles of Earth’s land-based ecosystems. This reveals “hotspots” of seasonal asynchrony around the world – regions where the timing of seasonal cycles can be out of sync between nearby locations.
We…
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By Jacqui Yoxall, Associate Professor & Chair of Discipline - Psychological and Social Health, Southern Cross University
Queensland woman Amanda Maree Power has recently been jailed after faking cancer and fraudulently raising about A$24,000 from friends, family and strangers over several years – including to pay for holidays and fake medical bills.
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By Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University
“I’ve had Japanese people crying when I tell them I’m not Diana,” British woman Christina Hance, who sometimes earned thousands of pounds a day as a Diana impersonator, told the BBC in 1996. A few months later, she announced she was stepping back from her duties as a Diana lookalike, saying the job had sent her mad and made her ill.
“I ended up a zombie just like her […] the strain of public life has been too much for both of us,” she said. Probably the best known of countless professional Diana impersonators, she “didn’t really look very much like Diana at all”, according to Edward…
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