By Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, Boise State University
Charlie Kirk and his organization connected students and the GOP in new and effective ways. But the slain conservative spread misinformation and thrived on outrage and intimidation.
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By Benjamin T. Jones, Senior Lecturer in History, CQUniversity Australia
After months of pressure, Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned. This creates a unique opportunity for the federal government.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
It says everything about the Liberals that the fracas over Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments about Indian immigrants became a proxy for the longer-term, debilitating battle over the party’s leadership and identity.
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley mishandled the affair initially by not personally dealing with Price at once. But it quickly became clear Price was using the situation to play the victim and defy her leader.
After a week of damage to the Liberals, when Price on Wednesday refused to endorse her leadership, Ley sacked her recalcitrant colleague from the shadow…
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By Jared Mondschein, Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
The 31-year-old, who was shot and killed while speaking at a university in Utah, was a highly influential figure in conservative politics.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ibtissame Lachgar holding her One Law For All award at the Secular Conference. © 2018 Nederlandse Leeuw/Wikimedia (Beirut) – Moroccan authorities should urgently overturn the 30-month sentence of an activist convicted on blasphemy charges for wearing a t-shirt authorities deemed offensive, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities need to ensure that the right to free expression is respected. The activist, Ibtissame Lachgar, was arrested on August 10, 2025, and charged by the Rabat First Instance Court with “causing harm to Islam” after posting a photo on…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A breach at a dam at a Sino-Metals Leach Zambia mine near Kitwe, Zambia, from video taken on February 19, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Richard Kille, file (Johannesburg) – Zambian authorities should address recent reports that polluted water and soil from an acid spill in Zambia’s copper mining region pose a serious health risk, Human Rights Watch said today.On February 18, 2025, a dam in Chambishi, Copperbelt province, holding mining waste from Chinese mining company, Sino-Metals Leach Zambia, burst its walls and released acidic effluent into Kafue River’s watershed.…
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By Chelsea Morrison, PhD Candidate, Occupational Therapy, Southern Cross University
Andrew Cashin, Professor of Autism and Intellectual Disability, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Southern Cross University
Kitty-Rose Foley, Senior Research Fellow, Mater Research Institute, The University of Queensland
The government plans to redirect some children off the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and onto a new program called Thriving Kids. When announcing the change last month, health and disability minister Mark Butler explained:
Tens and tens of thousands of young children with mild to moderate developmental delay or autism are on a scheme set up for permanent disability.
This seemed…
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By Grace Thompson, Associate Professor in Music Therapy; Senior Academic Fellow at Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
Art and music therapists can charge the National Disability Insurance Scheme the same as counsellors, after an independent review found they are effective.
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By Joel Robert McGregor, Senior Lecturer, Criminology, Swinburne University of Technology
Tougher knife laws make people feel safer but don’t address the real reasons knives are carried in the first place.
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By Oiwan Lam
The Court of Final Appeal gave the government two years to pass a framework for recognising same-sex partnerships. The deadline is October 27, 2025 and little progress has been made so far.
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