By Dan Golding, Professor and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
As authoritarian governments and conflicts loom large, the final season of Andor is perfectly timed to articulate anxieties close to home.
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By Julian Novitz, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
At Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter oversaw iconic coverage and launched the Oscars party. His memoir recalls the golden age of magazines – and ‘the expense account life’.
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By Duncan Ian Wallace, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
Corporations are ‘legal persons’ under the law. But their ability to be ‘owned’ by shareholders embeds a system of exploitation at the heart of capitalism.
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By Guy C. Charlton, Adjunct Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology and Associate Professor, University of New England
New taxes are never popular. But unless central government gives local bodies the power to raise more than just rates, budgets will never cover costs.
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Monday, April 21, 2025
Too many Indigenous people are still being excluded from decisions that directly affect their lands, territories, cultures, and the future of their communities, a top UN forum heard on Monday.
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By Mong Palatino
"The people and academics must be able to study and present information about public issues without the threat of criminal prosecution looming over their heads."
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By Stewart Prest, Lecturer, Political Science, University of British Columbia
The leaders’ debates featured few answers to questions about how Canada should move forward in an emergent new global order amid daunting new threats to peace and democracy.
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By Daniel Cash, Reader in Law, Aston University
Credit rating agencies like S&P Global and Fitch have an outsized influence on the economic fortunes of developing countries. Their assessments shape investor perceptions, influence borrowing costs, and ultimately shape a country’s development path. With many African countries now issuing bonds in global markets amid falling levels of official development assistance (ODA),…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Activists with painted hands protest against fossil fuels and for climate finance at the COP29 Climate Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 22, 2024. © 2024 Sean Gallup/Getty Images Earth Day, which in 2016 marked the opening for signature of the Paris Agreement on climate change, now takes place amid record-breaking global heat and rising fossil fuel production. Yet it also offers a vital opportunity for governments to enforce environmental protections and fulfill their human rights obligations.Around the world, the communities most exposed to the extraction,…
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By R. Blake Brown, Professor, History, Saint Mary’s University
Gun control hasn’t been a big issue during the 2025 election like it was in 2021. But it’s still important to assess the gun policies of the two parties leading in the polls.
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