By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Myanmar refugee activist Thuzar Maung with her husband, Saw Than Tin Win, who were abducted along with her three children from their home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 4, 2023. © 2023 private (Bangkok) – The Malaysian government should press Myanmar’s junta for the immediate release of a refugee family abducted from Kuala Lumpur in July 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. More than two years after her disappearance, Myanmar junta authorities announced on October 17, 2025, that they were detaining Thuzar Maung, a Myanmar pro-democracy activist,…
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By Daria Dergacheva
The prosecution was triggered by viral videos of Stoptime’s performances on Nevsky Prospect, where the musicians played songs by artists labeled as “foreign agents”: Monetochka, Noize MC, Zemfira, and Pornofilmy.
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By Melanie Saward, Lecturer, Creative Writing, The University of Queensland
Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our First Nations writing scene.
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By Olaf Meynecke, Research Fellow in Marine Science and Manager Whales & Climate Program, Griffith University
Australian scientists have noticed a rise in the number of whales getting entangled in ropes and fishing lines. Rescuing them is a job for experts.
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By Mary-Anne Williams, Michael J Crouch Chair in Innovation, School of Management and Governance, UNSW Sydney
I have worked in AI for more than three decades, including with pioneers such as John McCarthy, who coined the term “artificial intelligence” in 1955.
In the past few years, scientific breakthroughs have produced AI tools that promise unprecedented advances in medicine, science, business…
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By Scott McLean, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast
Ange Postecoglou has been sacked by two Premier League clubs in four months: Tottenham Hotspur in June (two weeks after winning the Europa League), then Nottingham Forest in October after just 40 days and eight games (with six losses and two draws).
His time at Forest was the shortest non-interim reign in Premier…
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By Violet Chae, PhD Candidate, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Daniel Feuerriegel, ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Tijl Grootswagers, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
Imagine you’re at the grocery store, standing before a selection of snacks. Seemingly without thinking, you skip over the rice crackers to pick out a bag of chips.
These types of choices are called dietary decisions. It’s how we consider many different aspects of a food – including tastiness, healthiness and price – in order to decide what to buy and what to eat.
It’s not well understood how our brains use all these different bits of information when making food choices. When does information about each aspect of the food become available to our brains to consider? That’s…
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By Andreas Schloenhardt, Professor of Criminal Law, The University of Queensland
The stolen jewellery includes well-known pieces that are easily recognisable, which will make it difficult to sell on the black market.
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By Mike Archer, Professor, Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Blake Dickson, Lecturer, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
Helen Ryan, Collections Manager (Palaeontology), Western Australian Museum
Julien Louys, Professor, Palaeontology, Griffith University
Kenny Travouillon, Curator of Mammals, Western Australian Museum
Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna – large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as sthenurines.
Then they gradually went extinct. What killed them?
There has long been vigorous debate about whether Australia’s First Peoples were responsible for the extinction of Australia’s megafaunal animals, or whether the primary…
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By Adam Simpson, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; Senior Lecturer, International Studies, University of South Australia
Sanae Takaichi has made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister. However, this was hardly a win for feminist or progressive politics.
Takaichi is a right-wing ultraconservative whose policy positions…
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