Monday, November 24, 2025
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, says major companies and fast-moving technologies are creating new challenges for tackling rights abuses – and that governments and businesses need to step up.
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By Katherine Y. Ko, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neuroscience, Monash University
This debilitating brain disease is rare. But its early symptoms are often mistaken for anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue or dementia.
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By Sara Tolbert, Professor of Science Education, Monash University
Ben Kennedy, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Canterbury
Sibel Erduran, Professor of Science Education, University of Oxford
Troy D Sadler, Professor of Science Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Critical thinking is an essential skill students should be encouraged to develop as part of their science learning. NZ’s draft science curriculum fails the test.
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By Cheng Cheng, Senior Research Officer, School of Engineering, Australian National University
Australia’s renewable boom has created a new bottleneck: grid access. As new transmission line costs blow out amid protests, we need to optimise the build.
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By Roslyn Petelin, Honorary Associate Professor in Writing, The University of Queensland
AI slop was the clear winner of Macquarie’s Word of the Year – it also won the People’s Choice Award. Honourable mentions included another AI-related word: clanker.
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By Laura Walls, PhD Candidate in Screenwriting, Queensland University of Technology
Much of The Beast in me is sensitive, sophisticated storytelling. So why is this sacrificed for a gratuitous depiction of violence against women?
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By Michael Rawling, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
News of the proposed deal broke a day before rival delivery company Menulog’s closure in Australia – with its customers set to be redirected to Uber Eats.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Members of the Burmese-American community demonstrate outside the Consulate General of Myanmar in Los Angeles, April 24, 2021. © 2021 Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Is it safe to return to a country wracked by an abusive armed conflict, widespread atrocities, and targeted ethnic violence, including war crimes and crimes against humanity?The Trump administration says it is. On November 24, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued notice of termination of Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for people from Myanmar, effective…
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By Jean Sovon
Nigeria is experience a mining boom due to Chinese investment, however, many are looking to ensure the benefits trickle down to the regular population — particularly those affected by mining operations.
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By Rachel Carey, Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
It’s a missed opportunity to think differently about how we can ensure all Australians have access to enough healthy and sustainably produced food.
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