By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Albanese government will expand the scheme providing incentives to households and businesses to acquire renewable energy to enable larger businesses, farms and community facilities to install solar systems up to ten times bigger than presently allowed.
Energy minister Chris Bowen will announce the broadening of the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme on Wednesday, saying it will address the “missing middle” in Australia’s energy transition.
“The missing middle is mid-scale solar,” he says in his speech to the National Press Club, part of which has been released ahead…
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By Daniel Gagnon, Professeur agrégé, Université de Montréal
Thomas Deshayes, Professeur adjoint, Faculté des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Heat waves pose a threat to older adults, but a recent study suggests that they retain an unexpected ability to adapt to high temperatures.
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By Rainer Prinz, Senior Scientist, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck
This decrease of snowfall is driven by changing sea surface temperature patterns in the Indian Ocean, which is a signal of global warming.
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By Michael Wahman, Professor, Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Nicholas Kerr, Associate Professor, University of Florida
Malawi’s constitutional court annulled the 2019 presidential election. The 2020 re-run brought an extraordinary transfer of power from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party to the opposition Malawi Congress Party, raising hopes for economic and political renewal.
However, the new government…
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By Tanya Doherty, Professor and Chief specialist scientist, South African Medical Research Council
Christiane Horwood, Senior researcher, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Every woman has the right to be treated with dignity, compassion and respect when giving birth. Yet for many South African women childbirth in public health facilities can be marked by poor communication, neglect, lack of privacy and, in some cases, verbal or physical mistreatment from health workers.
In a few cases, exposure to severe, disrespectful and abusive behaviour can lead to long-term psychological distress, affecting…
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By Bismark Aha, Senior Lecturer in Real Estate, Nottingham Trent University
Abubakar Sadiq Abass, Researcher, City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University
Philip Kofi Alimo, Post Doctoral Researcher, Urban Planning, Economics and Transport Laboratory, ENTPE
Richmond Juvenile Ehwi, Senior lecturer, Oxford Brookes University
For years, Ghana’s housing debate has revolved around one headline figure: a national shortage commonly estimated at about 1.8 million homes. The number is useful. It signals that housing supply has failed to keep pace with population growth, urbanisation…
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By Steve Greenfield, Professor of Sports Law and Practice, University of Westminster
The plan by Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, to invite equity investment into the World Cup didn’t last long. Announced on July 28, it immediately provoked hostility from across football.
Three days later Fifa sought to reassure critics: “Nobody is selling football. This is not something Fifa would ever entertain.” The proposal was then unceremoniously abandoned less than 48 hours…
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By Annie Curtis, Professor (Assoc), School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences (PBS), RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Cansu Gorgun, Tenure Track Researcher, Università degli studi di Genova
Your bones run on a 24-hour clock too and disrupting it with late nights and screens could be weakening your skeleton.
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By Human Rights Watch
(Nairobi) – The Ugandan authorities have brought abusive criminal charges against an opposition politician, Muwanga Kivumbi, apparently based on his criticism of the president’s son, who is head of the armed forces, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 29, 2026, the authorities charged Kivumbi, a deputy president of the National Unity Platform (NUP) Uganda’s main opposition party, with “inciting violence” and “managing an unlawful society,” after unlawfully detaining him for 19 days in an unrevealed location the day after he was released on bail for separate politically related charges.…
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By Amnesty International
My name is Jonas Ndayisenga. I’m a refugee from Burundi and have been living in Nairobi, Kenya, for 11 years. I fled political violence targeted at young protesters. I was with my parents, who suggested I should leave when the violence escalated, and a few days later, the government came and raided our house. When […] The post “I know what it feels like to be a refugee and how change can happen” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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