By Amnesty International
The Israeli military’s deliberate destruction of civilian homes in Quneitra governorate in southern Syria since December 2024, with no absolute military necessity, should be investigated as war crimes, said Amnesty International today. Israel has an obligation to make reparations for these serious violations of international humanitarian law, which should be tailored towards addressing the specific […] The post Syria: Israel’s deliberate destruction of civilian homes in Quneitra must be investigated as war crimes appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Olivia Maurice, PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University; University of Sydney
Mark Antoniou, Associate Professor, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University
From live speech translation in video calls to auto-dubbing on TikTok, the technology to dissolve language barriers has arrived. Real-time translation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is now embedded in everyday life.
Tools from OpenAI, Meta, Google…
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By Erin Smith, Associate Professor, Paramedicine and Head of Department, Rural Allied Health, La Trobe University
Cameron Anderson, Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead, Paramedicine, La Trobe University
Ambulance workers are increasingly being verbally abused and physically attacked. Two paramedicine researchers explain how we can better protect them.
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By Nathan Garland, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Physics, Griffith University
The measures announced in the budget are not the kind of renewal many in the research sector might have hoped for.
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By Mei Li, Lecturer in Strategic Public Relations, University of Sydney
For many in the West, China still feels hard to fully understand. Public debate and media coverage too often focus on the “China threat”. Critics highlight the flaws of China’s political system and limits on freedom, yet China has still managed to rise as a major power that can now compete with the United States.
One reason for this gap in understanding is that the media often interprets China through a Western-centric perspective.
US President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week, for instance, will be analysed in the West very differently from…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The treasurer joined us on the podcast to defend his fifth budget, explaining the ‘new architecture’ to make future tax cuts easier ‘when the budget can afford it’.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor says a Coalition government would restrict access to welfare benefits to Australian citizens.
Taylor will include the controversial policy in his Thursday night budget reply. It will be seen as an obvious pitch to those voters who are currently supporting One Nation. But the policy, which would hit permanent residents as well as other non-citizens, will be highly controversial.
The payments that would be affected range from the family tax benefit and carer payment to Austudy and the farm household allowance.
Under the plan, access…
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By Lisa Bennett, Associate Professor in Creative Writing and English Literature, Researcher in Old Norse Literature, Flinders University
Images of the sleek keels, elegant planks, and dragon-headed prows of Viking longships have been reproduced countless times on postcards, book covers, souvenirs and in television shows and movies.
These vessels are, quite literally, the poster-ships for the Viking Age, which was between around 750 and 1100 CE.
So what made these ships so special? And why were these advanced shipbuilding techniques so crucial to the Vikings’ success?
What drove this shipbuilding boom?
In Old Norse, there are two…
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By Sam Ryan, PhD Candidate, Literary Studies, University of Tasmania
In Yñiga, Glenn Diaz gives readers a glimpse into his country’s history in the only way that would do it justice.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Activists demand the Indonesian parliament pass a bill to protect domestic workers outside the parliament building in Jakarta, August 14, 2023. © 2023 Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo Two female domestic workers, ages 15 and 18, jumped from the fourth floor of a Jakarta boarding house on April 22 in a desperate attempt to escape their employer. One died; the other was severely injured.The tragedy came just a day after Indonesia’s parliament finally approved the long‑awaited Domestic Workers Protection Law, granting domestic workers long denied legal safeguards. But passing…
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