By Amnesty International
*Names changed to protect identities Kenyan authorities systematically deployed technology-facilitated violence as part of a coordinated and sustained campaign to suppress Generation Z-led protests between June 2024 and July 2025 against corruption and the introduction of new tax legislation, a new Amnesty International report shows. The report, “This fear, everyone is feeling it”: Tech-facilitated violence […] The post Kenya: Authorities weaponized social media and digital tools to suppress Gen Z protests appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A UN helicopter performs a routine patrol over the Bentiu internally displaced persons camp in Unity State, South Sudan, on November 4, 2025. © 2025 Rian Cope/AFP via Getty Images The South Sudanese government has demanded that the United Nations drastically scale back its peacekeeping mission in the country (UNMISS), including withdrawing 70 percent of its international peacekeeping forces (though not regional forces), grounding its helicopters, and closing its operating bases and civilian protection sites. The call should ring alarm bells as civilians in South…
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By Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
Elizabeth Baldwin, Senior Associate, Health Program, Grattan Institute
Hospitals are feeling intense pressure, yet the states have been asked to rein in spending. Here’s how they can get more care for every hospital dollar spent.
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By Aude Bernard, Associate Professor, Queensland Centre for Population Research, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
Charles Irvin Siriban, Postdoctoral research fellow, Queensland Centre for Population, The University of Queensland
Gin (Jing) Wu, Postdoctoral research fellow, Queensland Centre for Population, The University of Queensland
Immigration to Australia has surged since the COVID pandemic. But our research shows only about one in five become citizens within seven years.
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By Jenny Buchan, Emeritus Professor, Business School, UNSW Sydney
The blue and red boxes with white dots are immediately recognisable as containing Domino’s pizzas. The pizza chain is Australia’s largest and is run as a franchise, with the ASX-listed public company Domino’s Pizza Enterprises holding the Australian master franchise rights.
Industry analysts IBISWorld calculate Domino’s has 4.2% of the fast food and takeaway market in Australia.
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By Lucas Walsh, Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, Monash University
In a new survey, young people say school makes them ‘book smart’ but does not teach them essential life skills.
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By Colin Klein, Professor, School of Philosophy, Australian National University
Andrew Barron, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent scientific research has been seriously considering the possibility that either, or both, might be conscious.
There are many different ways of studying consciousness. One of the most common is to measure how an animal – or artificial intelligence (AI) – acts.
But two new papers on the possibility of consciousness in animals and AI suggest new theories for how to…
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By Fiona Wilkes, PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia
Despite its original association with purity, it has become somewhat of a trope to put the humble milk glass in the hands of the ‘bad guy’.
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By Abbas Yazdinejad, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence, University of Toronto
Jude Kong, Professor, Artificial Intelligence & Mathematical Modeling Lab, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Shadow AI is the unsanctioned use of AI systems without formal institutional oversight. In health care, it means pasting patient details into public chatbots.
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By Julian Woolford, Head of Musical Theatre, GSA, University of Surrey
The Wicked Witch of the West is back in part two of the film adaptation, of Wicked. Part one recounted the musical’s first half and with an interval of a year, audiences can now find out what happened to Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) after she learned to fly and set off on a mission to save the animals of Oz from the Wizard’s (Jeff Goldblum) vilification
The Legally Blonde light-heartedness of Shiz University is in the past and the second part, Wicked: For Good, has moved into more sinister political territory. This story emphasises the Wizard’s…
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