By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
The poster for the National Gallery of Victoria’s upcoming triennial features artwork made with AI. But the artist’s work is critical of our AI future.
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By Yves Rees, Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
“Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been.”
“Orlando was a man until the age of thirty; when he became a woman and has remained so ever since.”
With their unabashed acceptance of gender fluidity, these declarations ring with the politics of our present moment. They would be at home in a contemporary trans memoir or Instagram caption. Over on X, they would send a certain children’s author and her followers into a predictable frenzy.
Remarkably, however, these sentences were penned…
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By Shae McCrystal, Professor of Labour Law, University of Sydney
Dawn Duncan, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Otago
Australians and New Zealanders will be the world’s first gamers to play the new R-rated video game – which could see employees not turn up to work on November 20.
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By Anna Wang, Associate Professor of Chemistry, UNSW
The sugar-plus-amino acids combination involved in fake tanning is the same broad class of chemistry that happens in cooking. You are, in a sense, toast.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Representatives from across the international community are meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, to ensure that children everywhere can thrive in a world marred by war, climate chaos and other fundamental challenges.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. © 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images Burkina Faso’s unelected parliament has unanimously adopted a new penal code that restores the death penalty for high treason, terrorism, acts of espionage, parricide and importation of expired or prohibited products. The country had abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 2018 while its last known judicial execution took place in 1988.Reinstating capital punishment…
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By Guest Contributor
Access Now's 2025 report found that at least 313 shutdowns were implemented globally, and that in Africa the Internet was shut down 30 times in 15 countries, with protests the leading trigger, followed by elections.
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By Richard Hastings, 125th Anniversary Chair, and Professor of Psychology Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
Chris Hatton, Professor of Social Care, Department of Social Care and Social Work, Faculty of Health and Education, Manchester Metropolitan University
Anxiety. I always feel like I’m on edge. COVID, cost of living crisis, finances, current living arrangement. The majority don’t seem to care about COVID anymore and you can’t just ignore it, people are still dying from it.
Cara, whose name has been changed, described these concerns in our research into the continuing effects of the pandemic on people with intellectual disabilities. Her account shows how concerns about infection became entangled with uncertainty about everyday…
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By James Mollard, Researcher, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Matthew Wright, DPhil Candidate, Department of Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford
The Royal Meteorological Society’s annual report highlights how weather and climate affect the UK’s energy sector. Both winter and summer extremes pose challenges.
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By Lydia Namatende-Sakwa, Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
Schools are often among the first places where emotional and behavioural difficulties become visible. Learners may start missing classes, withdrawing from friends or struggling academically.
Schools are strategically positioned for mental health intervention because of their centrality in the lives of children and adolescents. They are an important entry point for mental health responsive action that can reach large numbers of children and adolescents through existing systems.
The burden of child and…
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