By Ricardo Palomo-Zurdo, Catedrático de Economía Financiera y Decano, Universidad CEU San Pablo
Sending money from your phone seems simple: just choose a contact, enter an amount, and press confirm. But behind these apparently simple actions lie national payment systems that are not always interoperable.
In Europe, the Madrid-based European Network for Payments (ENP) has been established to link five mobile payment solutions operating in 13 European countries: Bizum (Spain), Bancomat (Italy), SIBS-MB WAY (Portugal), Vipps MobilePay (Norway,…
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By Anne Twomey, Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
The One Nation leader’s case is among a slew of cases the High Court will deal with in coming months on freedom of political communication.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The PM will devote Monday to chair meetings on the mid-December budget update before flying off again for the COP summit in Turkey.
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By Óscar Calles
Venezuela’s Nobel laureate María Corina Machado returned to Caracas in a massive celebration after months in hiding and exile, sparking deep hope and sharp questions about the country’s political future.
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By Global Voices
We stand in solidarity with Faktoje following a series of coordinated attacks that have weaponized its transparent financial data to undermine its vital work exposing misinformation around local protests.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Relatives of people killed during a police raid on October 28, 2025 release balloons during a remembrance event in Complexo da Penha, a cluster of favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the one-year anniversary of the police operation. © 2026 João Paulo Casalino for Human Rights Watch It takes a long time to read more than a hundred names. I stood holding a white balloon alongside the victims’ relatives, some wearing T-shirts bearing photos of their loved ones. The list went on and on. As Tauã Brito said name after name, as if reading tombstones, the scale of the tragedy…
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By Johanna Lim, Research Associate, Strategic Technologies, University of Sydney
Olivia Shen, Director, Strategic Technologies, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
This week’s mid-term elections in the United States saw huge swings to the Democrats, away from President Donald Trump’s Republican party.
One surprisingly important factor was a rising backlash to the ongoing boom in data centre development triggered by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years.
Americans across ten states overwhelmingly voted in favour of candidates campaigning for local restrictions on data centres.
According to exit polls, some…
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By James Dyke, Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
Climate breakdown could undermine the social trust, political cooperation and financial resources needed to tackle it – new research shows how this might play out.
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By Jesse Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Te Ngira Institute for Population Research, University of Waikato
Polly Atatoa Carr, Associate Professor of Population Health, University of Waikato
A delve into the Rugby League World Cup’s demographic data reveals a story about family ties, migration and opportunity across the ocean.
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By Javed Ali, Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
The Trump administration has sunk reputational and military costs into the Middle East conflict. But continuing risks alienating voters further.
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