By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Opposition leader Angus Taylor is losing one of his most effective shadow ministers, Jonno Duniam, who will quit parliament this year, citing family reasons and “exhaustion”.
Duniam, 43, a senator for Tasmania, shadows the demanding portfolio of home affairs, and has been central in the crafting of the opposition’s immigration policy, which is still to be fully released.
Part of the conservative faction in the Liberal Party (and close to leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie), Duniam will be missed not just on the policy front. He is a good negotiator in the Senate, where…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Ministry of Interior Office in Doha, Qatar, May 5, 2021. © 2021 Shutterstock (Beirut) – The Qatari authorities since March 2026 have ordered at least four people with roles in key institutions of the minority Baha’i religion to leave the country, Human Rights Watch said today, based on information from informed sources. The four were ordered to leave without due process and with no legal pathway to challenge the orders.The people ordered to leave, who have lived in Qatar for decades and have families there, risk deportation in violation of their right to family…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image OSA students perform a flash mob in front of the Ministry of Education and Merit to request sexual and affective education in schools in Rome, Italy, on October 31, 2024. © 2024 Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images Last week, Italy’s senate passed the “Valditara bill,” a reform that could significantly restrict young people’s access to comprehensive sexuality education. The bill requires parents to provide consent before children can receive sexuality education in middle and high schools, and bans it entirely in elementary school.Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania. © European Union (Berlin) – Belarusian authorities are carrying out a countrywide intimidation campaign against former and current students of the European Humanities University (EHU), Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have searched the homes of dozens of students and their families and harassed, interrogated, and detained them. The actions violate their rights to freedom of thought, expression, and association. “The vicious targeting of the community of free academic thinkers fostered by…
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Friday, June 12, 2026
More civilians were killed and injured in Ukraine in May than in any other month in the past four years, UN investigators said on Friday in their latest update.
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By Katie Field, Professor in Plant-Soil Processes, University of Sheffield
A new study provides a crucial baseline: the first global map of where these fungal networks are and how much of them exists.
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By Amani Maalouf, Senior Researcher & Integration Lead, University of Oxford
Illegal waste dumping in the UK is no longer a marginal nuisance. It is increasingly operating at an industrial scale, with serious consequences.
The reported dumping of around 30,000 tonnes of waste at a protected site of special scientific interest in Leicestershire is one recent example of how severe the problem has become. Similar concerns have emerged recently at the large illegal waste site near Kidlington, Oxfordshire, where shredded mixed waste was deposited close…
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By Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
A new exhibition at the Opera Gallery London, is offering two very different – yet curiously complimentary – sets of artistic responses to nature. It highlights the work of Dutch sculptor Pieter Obels and French-Chinese painter Feng Xiao-Min.
This is Obels’s first major London exhibition for ten years. Born in 1968 and now based in Tilburg in his native Netherlands, Obels is a sculptor who works primarily with the kind of complex Corten steel structures…
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By Sophie Lovell-Kennedy, PhD Student/Durham Infancy and Sleep Centre Co-Manager, Durham University
New research finds that baby slings offer important benefits, but better safety information could help prevent rare deaths and injuries.
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By Luke Brunning, Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds
The CEO of dating app Hinge recently suggested that generation Z, “struggling to have the confidence to put themselves out there”, needs AI to help them find love. Apparently, without AI tools, younger people will struggle to express who they really are.
From the fascinating rise and uncertain social impact of AI relationship apps, to the hype of dating app companies promising…
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