Thursday, February 26, 2026
The UN rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday highlighted the “human-made disaster” across the Occupied Palestinian Territory stemming from Israel’s disregard for human rights norms and serious violations also committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Children watch news reports about the situation along the Thai-Cambodian border, in Sisaket province in northeastern Thailand, July 27, 2025. © 2025 loy Phutpheng/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo A Cambodian government-controlled court sentenced two journalists to fourteen years in prison for treason after they appeared in a photograph with Cambodian soldiers near the disputed Thai-Cambodian border.The journalists, Phorn Sopheap of the Battambang Post TV Online and Pheap Pheara of TSP 68 TV Online, were arrested last July and charged with “supplying a foreign state…
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By Pandanus Petter, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
Cosmo Howard, Associate Professor School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
Juliet Pietsch, Professor of Political Science, Griffith University
The assumption that Australian values are coherent is flawed, and the same flawed assumption is often projected onto other countries.
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By Song Shi, Associate Professor, Property Economics, University of Technology Sydney
In the first study of its kind, researchers matched more than 1,500 Sydney house sales with data on nearly 50,000 public trees. They found location is crucial.
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By Sara Fazeli, PhD Candidate, UNSW Sydney
Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Moe Mohammad Mojtahedi, Senior lecturer, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
Taha Hossein Rashidi, Professor of Transport Engineering, UNSW Sydney
Survivor accounts reveal how quickly evacuation routes become fatal, and why the danger of getting behind the wheel is often underestimated.
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By Jason M. Lodge, Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
It it time to get rid of group assignments at university? Federal Opposition education spokesperson Julian Leeser thinks so. On Thursday, he called for universities to drop group assessments entirely, arguing they are fundamentally “unfair” and “cheapen” degrees.
In a speech to the Universities Australia conference in Canberra, Leeser said:
Students feel, instinctively, that in many cases it is deeply unfair to assess them individually based on others’ work.
His logic is one many students will find familiar: one person inevitably…
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By Nicholas Morieson, Research Fellow, Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the dominance of American “frontier labs” such as Google and OpenAI into question.
Last week ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, released an AI video-generating tool called Seedance 2.0 which produces high-quality film-like clips from text prompts, with a casual disregard for copyright…
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By Hazel Dalton, Senior Research Fellow, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University
Karen Hayes, Occupational health researcher and lecturer, School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences, Charles Sturt University
One Nation is proposing to force doctors to do a regional stint before they can work in the city. But would that work in practice?
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By Rachael Mead, Fellow, J.M. Coetzee Centre, Adelaide University
Rachael Mead’s body once carried her across Antarctic ice sheets. At 55, she set out to reclaim her resilience – and what she discovered was surprising.
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By Amy Hume, Lecturer In Theatre (Voice), Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
Michael Caine has licensed his distinctive voice to the AI company ElevenLabs. Here’s what people actually hear when he speaks.
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