By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s cancelling of his big speech on migration that had been scheduled for delivery at the National Press Club on Thursday was embarrassing but also revealing.
Obviously, Burke was unable to finish the work on time. He didn’t want to deliver a speech with glaring holes that had to be filled later. Reportedly, there were arguments when the policy outline was discussed by cabinet ministers on Monday.
One thing the delay tells us is just how hard it is to put together a good migration policy. Remember, the government commissioned an expert review…
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By Guest Contributor
Indigenous Assyrian women were erased three times: first as Assyrians, then through sexual violence, finally by history itself. The machinery that made them disappear is still running.
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By Amnesty International
Filipino domestic workers reveal the abuses they faced in Saudi Arabia “I thought my body was going to collapse” Gloria* took on the role of a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia for two years I decided to take a job in Saudi Arabia when I was 44. My son was in college and my husband’s […] The post “For five months, I worked for 14 hours a day without a break” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The outgoing union leader said that beyond the new Victorian royal commission, ‘a lot more needs to be done’ to fight corruption in construction Australia-wide.
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By Kristy Campion, Associate professor, Terrorism and Security Studies, Charles Sturt University
In an apparent Australian first, an attack on a Victorian defence manufacturer is being investigated as a potential act of far-left terror.
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By Kim Munro, Senior Lecturer, Film & Television, Adelaide University
It wasn’t until episode eight in the ABC’s current reboot of Race Around the World that the question of ethics was raised.
Kate McGuinness’ film intercut accounts of village residents in Romania discussing their hardships under and after communist rule. McGuinness is known through the series for her droll humour and, here, her deadpan tableaux-vivants resemble something from a Wes Anderson film.
Judge John Safran is unsure about the ethics of moving between humour and the tragedy of other people’s lives, and the judges and McGuinness have a brief discussion. But then the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ali Karimli speaks at a rally in 2016. © 2016 Aziz Karimov/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Azerbaijani authorities have imposed increasingly punitive detention conditions on Ali Karimli, chairman of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), raising serious concerns about inhuman or degrading treatment.Karimli, 61, has been held in the State Security Service detention facility since November 29, 2025. Authorities charged him under Article 278.1 of the Criminal Code with "actions aimed at the violent seizure of power and forcible change of the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A person is detained during a Palestine Action demonstration at Marylebone Road in London, UK, July 30, 2026. © 2026 James Willoughby/SOPA Images via Reuters Palestine Action, the direct-action protest group, was granted permission on July 30 to appeal its terrorist designation at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. The government controversially issued this designation in 2025, and although the group successfully appealed the designation in the High Court, that ruling was reversed by the Court of Appeal in June. Since the group was designated as terrorist, more…
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By Miniature Malekpour, Research assistant, criminal justice, University of Sydney
Even with human rights safeguards in place, the new convention risks giving authoritarian regimes new tools to target their critics.
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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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