By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
Emily Burch, Accredited Practising Dietitian and Lecturer, Southern Cross University
Sometimes the ingredients we throw away are the ones we should have cooked with all along. Here are some ideas to minimise food waste and save money.
(Full Story)
|
By Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury
New Zealand is changing the law to make sexualised deepfakes a crime. But this alone may not be enough to counter the rise in AI-generated fake sexual material.
This week the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill is set to go through its first reading, with support across the political spectrum. The amendment…
(Full Story)
|
By Jason Tian, Senior Lecturer, Finance School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology
The rarest Bluey silver coins have been resold for more than 11 times their original price. But it’s worth seeing how much of a markup you’re actually paying.
(Full Story)
|
By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Advocacy for Democracy Team (TAUD) members show solidarity with Andrie Yunus, a rights who suffered burns in an acid attack in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 16, 2026. © 2026 Willy Kurniawan/Reuters (Jakarta) – An Indonesian official announced on April 30, 2026, that the government would seek to amend the country’s 1999 Human Rights Law to allow authorities to determine who is a recognized human rights defender, Human Rights Watch said today. Adopting such revisions would violate fundamental rights to freedom of expression and association and put rights defenders…
(Full Story)
|
By Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
Bill Hanage, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
While the hantavirus outbreak will likely be eliminated, it highlights persistent gaps in global pandemic prevention, preparedness and response measures.
(Full Story)
|
By Anna Farmery, Associate Professor, the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong
Clever rebranding and marketing could help boost demand for local sardines among Australians. But really making a difference would require policy change.
(Full Story)
|
By Klinger Soares Faico Filho, Professor da Disciplina de Clínica Médica e Medicina Laboratorial, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
Tests for Ebola don’t detect this strain, so it took the WHO extra time to confirm the cause of the outbreak.
(Full Story)
|
By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The head of the Gendarmerie’s Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity, Genocides and War Crimes (OCLCH), displays documents with a wanted poster of Félicien Kabuga, May 19, 2020, in Paris. © 2020 Benoit Tessler/Reuters The death of accused Rwandan genocide financier Félicien Kabuga closes an important chapter of the country’s 1994 genocide. Unfortunately, it also robs survivors of a chance for justice many had waited decades to see.Kabuga, long alleged to have financed the extremist militia that carried out the genocide and helped fuel genocidal…
(Full Story)
|
By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Omar Ahmod risked his safety to return to Hoyyar Siri a few months after the massacre, located the sites where he had seen civilians gunned down, and took videos and photographs of human remains. These images were analyzed by forensics experts who, in some cases, identified gunshot injuries to the skulls of victims. “There, I saw heaps of skeletons and skulls scattered everywhere, clothes still intact though the flesh had decayed. Some bodies were in water-filled ditches, others on dry ground. I remembered exactly where these people had been gathered,” Omar Ahmod…
(Full Story)
|
By Brian Tang, Professor of Atmospheric Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
A hurricane scientist explains the technology forecasters rely on to keep people safe and help communities all along the Atlantic coast know when to evacuate.
(Full Story)
|