By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The outgoing union leader said that beyond the new Victorian royal commission, ‘a lot more needs to be done’ to fight corruption in construction Australia-wide.
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By Kristy Campion, Associate professor, Terrorism and Security Studies, Charles Sturt University
In an apparent Australian first, an attack on a Victorian defence manufacturer is being investigated as a potential act of far-left terror.
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By Kim Munro, Senior Lecturer, Film & Television, Adelaide University
It wasn’t until episode eight in the ABC’s current reboot of Race Around the World that the question of ethics was raised.
Kate McGuinness’ film intercut accounts of village residents in Romania discussing their hardships under and after communist rule. McGuinness is known through the series for her droll humour and, here, her deadpan tableaux-vivants resemble something from a Wes Anderson film.
Judge John Safran is unsure about the ethics of moving between humour and the tragedy of other people’s lives, and the judges and McGuinness have a brief discussion. But then the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ali Karimli speaks at a rally in 2016. © 2016 Aziz Karimov/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Azerbaijani authorities have imposed increasingly punitive detention conditions on Ali Karimli, chairman of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), raising serious concerns about inhuman or degrading treatment.Karimli, 61, has been held in the State Security Service detention facility since November 29, 2025. Authorities charged him under Article 278.1 of the Criminal Code with "actions aimed at the violent seizure of power and forcible change of the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A person is detained during a Palestine Action demonstration at Marylebone Road in London, UK, July 30, 2026. © 2026 James Willoughby/SOPA Images via Reuters Palestine Action, the direct-action protest group, was granted permission on July 30 to appeal its terrorist designation at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. The government controversially issued this designation in 2025, and although the group successfully appealed the designation in the High Court, that ruling was reversed by the Court of Appeal in June. Since the group was designated as terrorist, more…
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By Miniature Malekpour, Research assistant, criminal justice, University of Sydney
Even with human rights safeguards in place, the new convention risks giving authoritarian regimes new tools to target their critics.
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By Daniel Gagnon, Professeur agrégé, Université de Montréal
Thomas Deshayes, Professeur adjoint, Faculté des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Heat waves pose a threat to older adults, but a recent study suggests that they retain an unexpected ability to adapt to high temperatures.
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By Rose Upton, Lecturer in Biotechnology, University of Newcastle
Alex Callen, Post-doctoral researcher, University of Newcastle
Anne Ibbotson, HDR candidate, University of Newcastle
Many people are blissfully unaware the world’s frogs and amphibians are fighting their own deadly pandemic. In fact, this fungal disease – chytridiomycosis, or chytrid for short – is the worst wildlife disease on record.
The chytrid fungus has caused the global extinction of
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By Alison Talmage, Postdoctoral Researcher in Music Therapy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Singing in a choir helps people regain their voice and reduces social isolation and the sense of loss that often follows diagnosis with a brain condition.
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By Sharayah Carter, Lecturer Human Biosciences (Nutrition and Dietetics), RMIT University
A new review links to eating less protein to longer lifespans and improved metabolism. But lots of this evidence comes from animals, not humans.
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