By Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of Art History, Griffith University
An enormous sun looms overhead in the gallery space. Somehow, it throbs and pulses with lights that render its surface active and alive. An austere rocky landscape inside another gallery reveals a riverbed and a narrow stream runs down the gentle slope towards the viewer.
Visitors explore, clamouring across the rocks and dipping their toes into the water to test the temperature. Outside, on a long table, visitors are invited to engage with hundreds of kilos of white Lego and build an imaginary cityscape.
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur…
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By Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
After the Rain, curated by Tony Albert, celebrates the resurgence of Australian Indigenous cultures in the aftermath of the loss of the referendum
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By Lisa Denny, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
An extensive government review of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in 2023 made 51 specific recommendations to enable “an RBA fit for the future”. But the narrow terms of reference confined the review to an economic lens.
The failure to investigate the effectiveness of monetary policy setting through a demographic lens has resulted in an RBA which is no longer fit for purpose.
The Reserve Bank…
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By Debbie Ging, Professor of Digital Media and Gender, Dublin City University
Digital Storytelling Team, The Conversation
It starts with one innocuous video. It ends in misogyny, anger and nihilism. Welcome to this online rabbit-hole of toxic masculinity.
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By Fiona Hurd, Associate Professor, Marketing & International Business, Auckland University of Technology
Suzette Dyer, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, University of Waikato
What happened to Tokoroa in 2025 underscored the fragility of NZ’s manufacturing base – and the consequences for local communities when decisions are made elsewhere.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Mothers who’ve been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care units or struggle to survive as they endure acute malnutrition, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
UN human rights chief Volker Türk has voiced concern over reports that “draconian security laws” in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China are being used to clampdown on people calling for a probe into the deadly fire at an apartment complex last month.
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By Rezwan
Global Voices spoke with the Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA) about their work and how it connects with COP30’s focus on justice, human rights, and a circular economy.
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By Sara Wilson, PhD Candidate, Communications, Simon Fraser University
In Canada, emergency communication is issued only in English and French, even in regions where Indigenous languages are widely spoken and recognized — an exclusion that compromises safety.
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By Joel Scanlan, Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity and Privacy, University of Tasmania
The ban may keep some children out, but it does nothing to fix the harmful architecture awaiting them when they return.
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