By Rifki Dermawan, Lecturer in International Relations, Universitas Andalas
Southeast Asia’s recurring haze is rooted in Indonesia’s fires, but its regional impact calls for stronger ASEAN cooperation, accountability and prevention.
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By Jasper Schipperijn, Professor of Active Living Environments, University of Southern Denmark
Across Europe, cycling is being promoted as a key solution to cleaner, healthier travel. The European Commission recently published its first progress report on the European Declaration on Cycling, highlighting billions of euros in investment, thousands of kilometres of new or upgraded cycle infrastructure, and growing political commitment to treating cycling as a regular mode of transport.
But there is a growing disconnect between…
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By Susmita Aryal
Nepal's Gen Z protesters, a year on, still carry the physical, emotional, and financial scars of that uprising, while questions about justice and accountability remain unresolved.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
One Nation wants to allow renters and mortgage holders to withdraw some super contributions to cover daily expenses. Daley agrees with part of the idea.
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By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
The federal government has today introduced draft digital duty of care legislation, designed to protect Australians from online harms.
The legislation was first planned – but shelved – in 2024. At the time, the government heralded it as “a shift away from reacting to harms by relying on content regulation alone, and moving towards systems-based prevention”.
After a two-year wait, this bill…
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By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Margaret Preston is a breathtaking exhibition. It is Preston as we have never seen her before, and challenges many earlier preconceptions.
We see her work in the context of her students/lovers, Bessie Gibson and Gladys Reynell, and her obsession with First Nations art – her adaptations, her collections, and, now, commentaries on her adaptations by Trevor Nickolls and Gordon Bennett, among others.
A much more complex and nuanced image of Preston emerges than in previous exhibitions.
The show is a mixture of a chronological…
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By Wes Hill, Associate Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, Southern Cross University
Jon Rafman is a master of turning the internet’s trash, excess and alienation into strangely seductive art.
Memento Hikikomori is his intoxicating mini-retrospective at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA).
It combines two ideas: memento mori, the reminder of our mortality, and hikikomori, the Japanese term associated with extreme social withdrawal.
The combination suits Rafman. His works repeatedly depict people retreating from the physical world into digital ones, finding traces of a questionable humanity behind the pixels.
Flâneur of the fringe…
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By Matthew Witt, Associate Professor, Natural Environment, University of Exeter
I spent six days on a small fishing boat in the middle of the English Channel in July trying to catch a thresher shark. The weather was fickle, even at the height of summer.
My colleague, ecologist Lucy Hawkes, and I were with two anglers who probably hold more experience of Channel thresher sharks than anyone alive. Between us, we caught nothing.
Fourteen trips later, after countless more hours at sea, the anglers caught a thresher shark and it was electronically tagged – a first in England and…
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By Amnesty International
This press release contains information that some readers may find upsetting Meta failed to address harmful rhetoric on Facebook against the LGBTI community in Hungary by ineffectively applying its own moderation policies, a new Amnesty International briefing shows. ‘It erodes my soul’: Meta’s contribution to anti-LGBTI discourse in Hungary, shows how Meta’s policy decisions, including […] The post Hungary: Meta failed to stop anti-LGBTI content on Facebook appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
My name is Adnan Barq. I’m 25 and I’m a Palestinian from the Old City of Jerusalem. I’m a journalist and also make films. The Durban Conference was happening when I was one year old. It’s fascinating to see how many people got together back then to try and shape justice in the world but, […] The post Durban Conference 25 years on. Adnan Barq: “The very fact of existing is a fight in itself” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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