By Jessica Genauer, Academic Director, Public Policy Institute, UNSW Sydney
There is nothing in the agreement that is positive for the US and did not already exist before the war.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Only a little more than a year into its second term and with Pauline Hanson turning politics upside down, the Albanese government finds itself in policy quicksand on three core issues: its budget tax reforms, its wrestle to curb the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and the electorally sensitive area of migration.
On Thursday the government announced changes worth $475 million over the forward estimates to its tax package, yet to be legislated. While the budget itself indicated there would be consultations with stakeholders about detail, the measures are seeking to allay the fierce…
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By Balkan Diskurs
Bunk’Art Museums 1 and 2, located inside two atomic bunkers commissioned by Albania’s former communist dictator Enver Hoxha, educate visitors on Albania’s 20th century history and the victims of the totalitarian regime.
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By Katie Robertson, Associate Director, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
Stateless people can struggle to access the most basic human rights many of us take for granted such as education, health care, the ability to work and move freely.
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By Sarah Diepstraten, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
John (Eddie) La Marca, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
UK media celebrity Jeremy Clarkson this week revealed he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
He told his co-stars about the diagnosis on air during the latest season of Clarkson’s Farm. At the time of filming, he said he didn’t know whether he would be back for another season. However, he said the cancer had been caught early and he was receiving treatment.
Clarkson specifically noted his cancer was…
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By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
Vodafone Australia suffered a major nationwide outage today that may have affected millions of customers.
Customers of Australia’s third-largest telecommunications company in Darwin, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra reported having no service for several hours early this morning.
At roughly 11am, Vodafone, which is owned by TPG Telecom, issued a statement saying it was aware customers…
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By Robert Davis, Associate Professor in Wildlife Conservation, Edith Cowan University
For months, a flood of mice has engulfed Western Australia’s agricultural regions.
For people living through it, this latest mouse plague is all-consuming. Houses, sheds, paddocks and roads are blanketed with mice. And the smell of mice, both dead and alive, is impossible to escape.
It may well be the worst plague the region has ever seen, with scientists recording up to 8,000…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A protester sits on the street with his arms up in front of federal agents and Minneapolis Police on W. 27th St and Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis after Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents in the area early Saturday morning, January 24, 2026. © 2026 Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images The Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota led to widespread human rights violations, terrorized residents, and spotlighted the deeply abusive patterns in US immigration enforcement.In…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Javokhir Muminov (left) and Djura Akbarov (right) at the Kashkadarya Regional Prosecutor's Office, Uzbekistan. © 2025 Elena Urlaeva (Berlin, June 18, 2026) – Uzbek authorities should release a local human rights activist accused of extortion and investigate his allegations of abuse in police custody, Human Rights Watch said today. Javokhir Muminov, the activist, told his lawyer on June 10, 2026, that following his arrest, police officers had beaten and suffocated him.“This criminal investigation into Javokhir Muminov, coupled with his allegations of abuse, is…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The departing Liberal frontbencher also said it’s ‘mad’ to be talking about doing deals with One Nation so far from an election.
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