By Paul Larkin, Senior Researcher in Youth Athlete Development, Victoria University
With the Australian Football League (AFL) season and trade period over, attention turns to the AFL draft.
The annual draft is the moment when many young hopefuls’ dreams become reality: they are selected by one of the league’s 18 clubs.
In the AFL, as with many other sports, the first draft pick is allocated to the team that finishes last, with the second-worst team gaining the second pick, and so on. These picks may be traded between teams after being allocated.
Every year…
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By Treena Clark, Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that the following article contains images and voices of deceased persons.
Marrithiyel artist and designer Paul McCann defines fashion as armour. Wearing his own creations allows him to feel protected while centring culture and claiming presence.
McCann describes himself as having “faboriginal flair,” a phrase that captures both the playful and cultural essence of his work.
His celebrated…
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By Joel Robert McGregor, Senior Lecturer, Criminology, Swinburne University of Technology
Scottish police created a specialised violence reduction unit to treat violence as a public health issue. It worked, and it’s coming to Victoria.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Sanae Takaichi is applauded after being elected Japan's new prime minister by lawmakers in the lower house of the Diet on October 21, 2025, in Tokyo. © 2025 Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images (Tokyo, November 18, 2025) – Japan’s new government should make the promotion of human rights central to its foreign policy, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on November 6, 2025. The Japanese government should affirm its commitment to human rights by taking the lead in promoting civilian democratic rule and the rule of law across…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wazed at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, November 9, 2021. © 2021 Michel Euler/AP Photo The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh on November 17, 2025, found Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister, and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, the former home minister, guilty of crimes against humanity during the violent suppression of student-led protests in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today.Both were prosecuted in absentia, not represented by counsel of their choosing, and sentenced to death, raising serious human…
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By Lucinda Grummitt, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
Being exposed to trauma in childhood is linked to serious mental and physical health issues later in life. These findings show trauma is not rare.
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By Sophie Smit, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sydney
Tijl Grootswagers, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
Within a fraction of a second of seeing another person being touched, our brains figure out who is involved and how it might feel.
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By Danilo Urzedo, Research fellow, The University of Western Australia
Oliver Tester, Indigenous Liaison Manager, Curtin University
Stephen van Leeuwen, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia
The UN climate conference in the Brazilian Amazon marks an unprecedented effort to elevate Indigenous concerns in negotiating rooms and on the streets.
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By Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.”
The law’s creators promised it would protect law-abiding citizens from prosecution if they used force in self-defense. Then-Florida state Rep. Dennis Baxley, who cosponsored the bill, claimed – in the wake of George…
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By Nicolas Chartier-Edwards, PhD student, Politics, Science and Technology, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
François-Olivier Picard, PhD student, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Promoting AI as an economic driver within an unregulated environment risks disrupting key sectors and services that sustain Canadian democracy.
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