By Minority Africa
Passing the anti-LGBTQ+ bill days after receiving global acclaim for human rights advocacy would expose Ghana’s rank hypocrisy, potentially undermining the very reparations dialogue the government claims to prioritize.
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By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
The deal will leave Iran in a stronger position than before the war, the US with far less leverage in the region, and Israel in the lurch.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
With frontbencher Jonno Duniam’s decision the bail out of politics, the Liberals are not just further depleted, but the parliament is losing someone of the calibre we want to see there.
Duniam performs well on policy and on the politics. He looks for compromises (often more than his party does), can negotiate in the Senate, and comes across strongly in the media. At 43 he had a long career ahead, even if the Coalition’s future appears bleak. So why jump, especially as he says he has no job lined up?
He referred, as would be expected, to family reasons – three young sons.…
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By Roos van der Haer, Assistant professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University
Andreas Forø Tollefsen, Senior Researcher
Gudrun Østby, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Ragnhild Nordås, Associate professor, University of Michigan
Siri Aas Rustad, Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
When armed groups use child recruitment or sexual violence, the impact of conflict on schooling is much more severe than in conflicts without these tactics.
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By Charlie Huveneers, Associate Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
A young mother remains in hospital after being bitten by a shark at Coogee beach in Sydney on Saturday morning. Leah Stewart, 35, was swimming about 30 metres offshore when the shark – believed to be a three to four metre great white shark – struck.
In the wake of this…
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By Joshua Lobb, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
These vibrant, provocative books come together in their contemplation of what it means to be Australian in a global context.
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By Francesco Bailo, Senior Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, University of Sydney
On June 12, artificial intelligence (AI) lab Anthropic suspended access to its latest Claude models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, which had been released three days earlier.
The move came in response to an “export control directive” from the US government prohibiting use of the models by anyone who is not a US national.
Mythos is Anthropic’s most powerful, or “frontier”, model. When first announcing the model in April, the company said it was too good at hacking to release immediately.…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Gaza’s education system lies in ruins. © Plan International / Ahmed Salama (New York) – At least 8,500 attacks on education took place globally in 2024-2025, a more than 40 percent increase from the previous two-year period, according to Education Under Attack 2026, released today by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA). These attacks harmed over 10,600 students, teachers, and education personnel across 83 countries, including 55 not in active armed conflict.“We believe the true increase is far higher,” said Felicity Pearce, lead researcher…
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By MacKenzie McCowan, PhD Candidate: English Literature, University of Sydney
When Bell Shakespeare’s Mackenzie begins, it is with the clap of thunder and flash of lightning you might expect from any adaptation of Macbeth. And yet, what follows is no ordinary production of the much beloved Scottish play.
The 2026 premiere of Mackenzie, written by Yve Blake and directed by Virginia Gay, keeps the outlines of Shakespeare’s play and transports it to a Y2K fever dream of child stardom, pink sparkles and stage mums.
But make no mistake, divas: the glitter doth not hide the dark…
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By Luis Mejias, Associate Professor in Aerospace and Autonomous Systems, Queensland University of Technology
Jonathan Roberts, Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
It was clear that something had gone seriously wrong with the thousand-strong swarm of drones twinkling above Darling Harbour during the Vivid Sydney festival last month. Many suddenly started flying out of formation. Almost 90 fell from the sky and into the dark water below.
Thankfully no one was injured. Yet the drone show failure, which has been blamed on radio interference, highlighted a challenge facing all autonomous aircraft: what happens when things go…
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