By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
One Nation wants to allow renters and mortgage holders to withdraw some super contributions to cover daily expenses. Daley agrees with part of the idea.
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By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
The federal government has today introduced draft digital duty of care legislation, designed to protect Australians from online harms.
The legislation was first planned – but shelved – in 2024. At the time, the government heralded it as “a shift away from reacting to harms by relying on content regulation alone, and moving towards systems-based prevention”.
After a two-year wait, this bill…
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By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Margaret Preston is a breathtaking exhibition. It is Preston as we have never seen her before, and challenges many earlier preconceptions.
We see her work in the context of her students/lovers, Bessie Gibson and Gladys Reynell, and her obsession with First Nations art – her adaptations, her collections, and, now, commentaries on her adaptations by Trevor Nickolls and Gordon Bennett, among others.
A much more complex and nuanced image of Preston emerges than in previous exhibitions.
The show is a mixture of a chronological…
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By Wes Hill, Associate Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, Southern Cross University
Jon Rafman is a master of turning the internet’s trash, excess and alienation into strangely seductive art.
Memento Hikikomori is his intoxicating mini-retrospective at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA).
It combines two ideas: memento mori, the reminder of our mortality, and hikikomori, the Japanese term associated with extreme social withdrawal.
The combination suits Rafman. His works repeatedly depict people retreating from the physical world into digital ones, finding traces of a questionable humanity behind the pixels.
Flâneur of the fringe…
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By Matthew Witt, Associate Professor, Natural Environment, University of Exeter
I spent six days on a small fishing boat in the middle of the English Channel in July trying to catch a thresher shark. The weather was fickle, even at the height of summer.
My colleague, ecologist Lucy Hawkes, and I were with two anglers who probably hold more experience of Channel thresher sharks than anyone alive. Between us, we caught nothing.
Fourteen trips later, after countless more hours at sea, the anglers caught a thresher shark and it was electronically tagged – a first in England and…
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By Amnesty International
This press release contains information that some readers may find upsetting Meta failed to address harmful rhetoric on Facebook against the LGBTI community in Hungary by ineffectively applying its own moderation policies, a new Amnesty International briefing shows. ‘It erodes my soul’: Meta’s contribution to anti-LGBTI discourse in Hungary, shows how Meta’s policy decisions, including […] The post Hungary: Meta failed to stop anti-LGBTI content on Facebook appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
My name is Adnan Barq. I’m 25 and I’m a Palestinian from the Old City of Jerusalem. I’m a journalist and also make films. The Durban Conference was happening when I was one year old. It’s fascinating to see how many people got together back then to try and shape justice in the world but, […] The post Durban Conference 25 years on. Adnan Barq: “The very fact of existing is a fight in itself” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
My name is Paul Divakar Namala. I am the Executive Director of The Inclusivity Project and Convenor of the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent. My work focuses on communities whose social status, occupations and exclusion are inherited across generations through caste, analogous hierarchies and systems rooted in traditional slavery. I am […] The post Durban Conference, 25 years on. Paul Divakar Namala: “Solidarity and resistance work in the long run” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Thomas Corbin, Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University
An AI system might generate the same words as a teacher but that doesn’t mean the educational interaction for the student is the same.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UAE's President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan during a work lunch as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 16, 2026. © Ammar Abd Rabbo-Pool/SIPA/2606161433 (Sipa via AP Images) (Berlin, September 8, 2026) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and other senior officials should publicly call out the United Arab Emirates’ human rights record and its role in regional conflicts when they meet President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Berlin on September 10, 2026, Human…
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