By Anne Toomey McKenna, Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State
Geofencing warrants round up the location data of everyone in a specific place and time, whether or not they had any connection to a crime – a test of the Fourth Amendment in the digital age.
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By Jamie Cross, Assistant Professor of Econometrics & Statistics, Melbourne Business School
With the Strait of Hormuz still effectively closed, prices will likely stay high in the near term. But a weaker cartel could mean more competition in the future.
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By Claudio Bozzi, Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
Even at the best of times, most seafarers face extremely difficult working conditions, while contending with geopolitical crises and unpredictable trade cycles.
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By Nicole Lee, Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
Wastewater data can only measure the volume of drugs consumed, not the number of people using them or the level of harm they experience.
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By Stephanie Milford, Research Officer, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University; Curtin University; Federation University Australia
A new study spoke to first-time parents about ‘screen rules’ and how they apply in the chaos of family life.
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By Martin Kear, Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Francesca Albanese, an Italian lawyer and scholar, is the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, comprising the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Her job is to report to the UN on the human rights situation in these territories.
Since its inception in 1993, the role of rapporteur has been controversial and at times adversarial. Previous appointees were regularly castigated by Israeli governments and pro-Israel lobby groups for their…
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By James Hall, Lecturer, Media & Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University
This toxic social media trend proves how – even today – women are punished and pathologised for simply being less than perfect.
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By Alexandre Siqueira, ARC DECRA and Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
Some parts of this epic coral reef system weren’t even where the greatest reefs are found today. But remnants have survived.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image “Mina” in Panama City, Panama, 2025. © 2025 Human Rights Watch A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected on April 24 the government’s denial of the right to seek asylum for asylum seekers who arrive at the southern border. The ruling stops summary deportations based on President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day proclamation of an “invasion” at the US-Mexico border.The court held that US immigration law “makes plain that the right to apply for asylum is broadly available to all foreign individuals present or arriving in the…
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By Philip Murphy, Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
The king’s speech pushed in interesting ways at the boundaries of what a British monarch might be expected to have said in Trump’s America.
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