By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Spellman Bernard Smith, Jr., 78, center, stands in line with other voters at Rosemont Middle School in Norfolk, Virginia, on Election Day, November 8, 2016, to cast his vote. Smith, who has a felony conviction, recently had his voting rights restored and was able to cast a vote for president for the first time. © 2016 Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP (New York) – Legislation advancing in Maryland and Alabama would expand voting rights for people with felony convictions, marking significant progress in the movement to expand voting rights for all,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Players of Afghan Women's United football team receive support from Tunisian players after the FIFA Unites: Women's Series 2025 on October 29 in Casablanca, Morocco. © 2025 Francois Nel - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images (Vancouver) – The FIFA Council’s decision to approve amendments to its Governance Regulations provides a landmark opportunity to ensure gender equity and human rights in sport, the Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA) said today. These changes allow for the official recognition of the Afghanistan Women’s National Team in exile, ensuring that the players…
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By Amnesty International
FIFA President Gianni Infantino must tell member associations gathering tomorrow at the 76th FIFA Congress in Vancouver, Canada, how he will ensure that the world’s biggest sporting tournament does not become a stage for repression and a platform for authoritarian practices, Amnesty International said today. “With just six weeks until the 2026 World Cup kicks […] The post Global: Gianni Infantino must use FIFA congress speech to commit to a World Cup free from deportations, detentions and repression appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
One of the frontrunners in the landmark by-election, independent Michelle Milthorpe, as well as One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce, also joined us on the podcast.
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By Andrea Carson, Professor of Political Communication, La Trobe University
Diana Bossio, Associate Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University
The government’s latest attempt to make big companies pay for the journalism that bolsters their profits has benefits, but also risks.
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By Sara Kells, Director of Program Management at IE Digital Learning and Adjunct Professor of Humanities, IE University
In a typical conversation today, it is not difficult to sense when someone has stopped listening. Their attention shifts, their response arrives too quickly, or their eyes drift toward a screen waiting nearby. The exchange continues, but something essential has already been lost. We speak more than ever across platforms, devices, and digital spaces. But are we actually listening to one another?
Public debate today tends to focus on speech. Questions of who can speak, what should be regulated, and whether free expression is under threat dominate discussions about digital life. These…
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By Mandar Oak, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Adelaide University
Peter Mayer, Associate Professor, School of History and Politics, Adelaide University
It was a rare defeat for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which signals an opposition not afraid to stand up to him, even on politically delicate issues.
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By Daniel Baldino, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
Earlier this month, multibillion-dollar US tech company Palantir posted on X a summary of its chief executive Alex Karp’s recent book, the portentously titled The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.
The book and the post offer a kind of manifesto, making sweeping claims about a hierarchy of civilisations, the rejection of pluralism, Silicon Valley’s moral obligation to US military power, the necessity…
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By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
The case crystallises a wider public anxiety: an incredibly powerful technology is being built and controlled by a tiny number of feuding tech bros.
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By Dennis Altman, Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
While the US president has been at odds with the UK prime minister over Iran, the royals were able to bring the charm to Washington.
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