By Ger Post, Lecturer Neuroscience, PhD student collaborative reasoning, The University of Melbourne
With the AFL finals approaching, discussions about the league’s clutch players – those who excel under pressure – will soon appear in the media and be debated among fans.
Last year, Gold Coast captain Noah Anderson was ranked…
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By Sanné Mestrom, Senior Lecturer, DECRA Fellow, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Walk into most art galleries with children, and you’ll hear the familiar refrain “look but don’t touch”. This instruction reveals something troubling about how cultural institutions understand learning. Museums have become temples to visual consumption, where knowledge is received through eyes rather than constructed through bodies.
This fundamentally misunderstands how humans learn – and what we deny young people when we privilege looking over all other forms of engagement.
At my exhibition The…
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By Clare Collins, Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
Processed foods vary greatly in their nutritional quality – and the number and type of food additives used to manufacture them.
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By Hugh Breakey, Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University
In mid-August, controversy enveloped the Bendigo Writers Festival. Just days before it began, festival organisers sent a code of conduct to its speakers – a code that drove more than 50 authors to make the difficult decision to pull out.
The code was intended to ensure the event’s safety, with a requirement to…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A former deputy secretary of the immigration department under the Howard government says ‘it’s time politicians on both sides pulled up their socks’.
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By Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne
The president has made some concessions to protesters, but this may not be enough to quell public anger with politicians seen as lazy, corrupt and out of touch.
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By Jennifer Medbury, Lecturer in Intelligence and Security, Edith Cowan University
With cyber crime groups constantly shifting tactics and getting creative, we all must stay vigilant – especially if we work at large companies.
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By Amnesty International
Iranian authorities are waging a terrifying crackdown under the guise of national security in the aftermath of the June 2025 hostilities with Israel, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The deepening crisis underscores the urgent need for the international community to pursue concrete criminal accountability measures. Since 13 June, Iranian authorities have arrested over 20,000 people, including dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists, […] The post Iran: Authorities unleash wave of oppression after hostilities with Israel appeared first on Amnesty International.…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet attend a news conference after a bilateral talk at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo, May 30, 2025. © 2025 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Photo Cambodian authorities are harassing Cambodians living in Japan who are publicly critical of Cambodia’s government and also harassing their relatives in Cambodia.The Cambodian government’s expansion of repression to include activists in Japan and other countries is an example of transnational repression.The Japanese government should rebuke Cambodia’s…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Nibok refugee settlement on Nauru, September 3, 2018. © 2018 Jason Oxenham/AP Photo Last week, the Australian government struck a A$400 million (US$260 million) deal with Nauru to deport 280 people to the small Pacific island nation. It is also proposing new legislation to strip those facing deportation of their basic procedural rights.The government is targeting refugees and migrants whom it had previously been forced to release from its onshore immigration detention system following a landmark 2023 high court ruling. The court ruled that Australia’s…
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