By Amnesty International
How did your husband end up a faith leader? Before becoming a pastor, Wang Lin worked as a lawyer. In 2006, after he became a Christian, he left the legal profession, enrolled in seminary, and spent several years in the US pursuing theological studies. We returned to China at the end of 2017 and Wang […] The post China’s crackdown on house churches: An interview with Su Ziming, wife of detained Chinese pastor Wang Lin appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Julian Novitz, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
Catherine Chidgey’s novel The Starving Bride is a disturbing and bleakly funny portrait of a society attempting to distract itself from mounting disasters.
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By Doug Cowen, Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Premier Ben Carroll, Opposition Leader Jess Wilson, One Nation’s Colleen Harkin and pollster Tony Barry preview November 28’s closely watched election.
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By Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
Cheneal Puljević, UQ Amplify Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
Not a week goes by without a news story about illicit tobacco in Australia, which is now a serious problem across the country.
This week, the federal government announced an additional A$2.7…
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By Toby Murray, Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
As Pornhub embraces Apple’s new age verification in Australia, this could be the start of a broader shift in the tech industry.
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By Nial Wheate, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
Wai-Jo Jocelin Chan, Pharmacist and Lecturer, UNSW ; University of Sydney
Your eyes detect when darkness falls, triggering the brain to produce melatonin. But do supplements always have the same effect?
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By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
There’s a rich tradition of daggy humour in Australian film and television, running from Alvin Purple (1973) to Muriel’s Wedding (1994) to the inimitable ABC series Dog’s Head Bay (1999). These works embrace the cultural cringe of Australianness in a way that’s thoroughly disarming.
It’s great to see Stan keeping this tradition alive and kicking, first with The F Ward and now with the comedy horror series Gnomes.
Gnomes is,…
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By Nina Araneta-Alana, Research fellow, Laureate Program on Global Corporate Climate Accountability, The University of Melbourne
Jacqueline Peel, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
Liz Hicks, Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne
Suzanne Varrall, Research Fellow, Laureate Program on Global Corporate Climate Accountability, The University of Melbourne
Australia’s highest court has just delivered its first-ever decision in a climate case. And it could sour the economic argument for developing new coal and gas projects in New South Wales, and possibly Australia.
This High Court judgement is timely – Australia is co-hosting an international pre-COP31 climate summit in the Pacific this week…
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By Sajish Mathew, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in the body depending on how they’re arranged in space.
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