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Human Rights Observatory
By Tai Neilson, Senior Lecturer in Media, Macquarie University
News outlets want readers – and big tech – to pay for their content. But blocking the Internet Archive will leave major holes in the public record of the web.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Daryl Efron, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne
Nadia Coscini, PhD Candidate, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne
Shorter wait times and lower costs. That’s what people with ADHD and their families can expect now Victorian GPs are getting more involved with diagnosis and treatment. But questions remain.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera, Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Sydney
Bad Bunny was the first Spanish-language record to win Album of the Year at the Grammys. On Sunday, he will headline the Super Bowl.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. © 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images On January 29, the junta’s Council of Ministers approved a decree dissolving all political parties in the country and a draft law repealing the legislation governing their operations and financing. The minister of territorial administration, Émile Zerbo, said the action is part of a broader effort to “rebuild the state,” following what the junta describes as “abuses” and “division of citizens”… (Full Story)
By Alice Grundy, Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Language and Linguistics, Australian National University
For more than 65 years, book lovers have descended on Adelaide every summer for Australia’s longest running literary festival. That is, until this year, when around 180 invited authors (including me) boycotted Adelaide Writers Week, following the board’s decision to “uninvite” Palestinian-Australian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. The festival was cancelled.

But Abdel-Fattah will…The Conversation (Full Story)

By Ahmed Uzair Aziz, PhD Candidate in Māori Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
This story begins with a 160-year-old cottage, sited in a vortex of overlapping histories, and becomes the tale of a city itself.

The green and cream weatherboard house at 18 Wynyard Street is a rare survivor of the old dwellings that once lined this central Auckland lane.

These days it houses the University of Auckland’s James Henare Research Centre, dedicated to empowering Māori in the Te Tai Tokerau region.

But the cottage was originally built in the 1860s to provide housing for married British army officers during the land…The Conversation (Full Story)

By Joel Scanlan, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Law; Academic Co-Lead, CSAM Deterrence Centre, University of Tasmania
A new eSafety report reveals an ongoing gap between what technology can do and what companies are actually doing to tackle child abuse.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education and Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University
Tom Hartley, Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
There are eight new events at the Milan Cortina games, and several Australians are right in the mix for a medal.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Jon Cornwall, Senior Lecturer and Education Adviser, University of Otago
Sabine Hildebrandt, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard University
The use of AI copies of the dead for medical training remains hypothetical, but the technology to make them exists, raising questions about what it means to be dead.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Kurt Sengul, Research fellow, Far-Right Communication, Macquarie University
Jordan McSwiney, Senior research fellow, University of Canberra
Pauline Hanson’s party has been dysfunctional and scandal-ridden for its entire existence. Capitalising on strong polling will mean changing decades-old patterns.The Conversation (Full Story)
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