By Peter Tennant, George Saden Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University; University of Leeds
Visiting galleries might enrich your life, but the evidence that it slows your ageing is less certain than recent headlines suggest.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International supports a class action lawsuit filed today by The Privacy Collective on behalf of Dutch internet users against the American tech company AppLovin. The case focuses on the alleged unlawful collection and trading of personal data of millions of Dutch people via tracking software in popular mobile games and apps. This is what’s happening Through software built into countless popular games and apps, AppLovin is […] The post Netherlands: Amnesty International supports strategic lawsuit against alleged illegal tracking software in games and apps appeared first on Amnesty…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Albanese government has found itself on the thorny end of a social media campaign post-budget as it watches One Nation ride a wave.
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By Victoria-Elliot Bush, PhD Candidate, Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
I’m not surprised that Talk Like Yoda Day exists. Over 40 years since his Star Wars debut (puppeteered and voiced by Frank Oz), Yoda remains a recognisable figure in pop culture. This is in part due to his distinctive and frequently imitated version of English.
What stands out about Yoda’s speech is his unusual word order. Think of some of his most famous lines: “Patience you must have, my young Padawan” and “Your path you must decide”. This is clearly not the typical English word order, but it’s…
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By Nicole Froio
In the last decade in Brazil, transphobia has become one of the main tools for disseminating misinformation. In many cases, it is spread by elected politicians with millions of followers
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By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Adelaide University
Diseases once thought confined to history are making a comeback in Australia. And vaccination is only part of the story.
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By James Trapani, Associate Lecturer of History and International Relations, Western Sydney University
After a week of speculation, the US Department of Justice has officially indicted Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old ex-president of Cuba.
The charges relate to a 1996 incident in which the Cuban military allegedly shot down two unarmed civilian planes operated by Brothers to…
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By Misha Ketchell, Editor-in-chief & Executive Director, The Conversation
In the washup following the federal budget last week, the ABC did a vox pop interview with a voter about a tax change that would leave him worse off. The answer he gave was unexpected. Instead of complaining, he told the reporter that he supported the change because it could help young people get into housing, and that would serve the greater good.
I’ve been thinking about what he said ever since. How often, these days, do you hear anyone talk about the “greater good”? For a long time now, large sections of the media and political class have behaved as though public policy is a game…
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By Shannon Bosch, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University
In a video posted by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Wednesday night, detained activists from dozens of countries are shown kneeling on the ground with their foreheads on the floor and hands zip-tied behind their backs.
Some of the activists, who had been intercepted by Israeli forces on a flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, are then pushed and dragged by Israeli personnel. Ben-Gvir is seen waving an Israeli flag and taunting them.
The video on his X account had a simple…
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By Mei-fen Kuo, Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Culture and History, Macquarie University
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and her English translator Lin King have received the 2026 International Booker Prize for Taiwan Travelogue. The novel is the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the award in its ten-year history, and Yang is the first Taiwanese writer to take the prize.
The judges described Taiwan Travelogue as “a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel” that “pulls off an incredible double…
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