By Wellett Potter, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of New England
It’s a familiar experience for many Australians. Shopping at discount supermarket chain Aldi, you see an off-brand product that looks similar to a major brand’s product you know and love. You decide to buy it, because not only does it look familiar, it also costs much less than you would pay elsewhere.
Aldi has successfully used this dupe or “lookalike” strategy for decades. However, the approach is not without risk, particularly in the eyes of Australian copyright law.
Last week, Aldi lost…
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By Zoe Bainbridge, Senior Research Fellow, TropWATER, James Cook University
Rebecca Bartley, Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
Sediment and nitrogen runoff carried by rivers is a major challenge to the Great Barrier Reef. Science confirms efforts to improve water quality are paying off.
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By Mathew Leonardi, Associate Professor, Gynaecological Surgeon and Sonologist, McMaster University; Adelaide University
Narges Kalani, Clinical Research Assistant, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Oncology, McMaster University
Could new tests shorten the long road to an endometriosis diagnosis? The promise is compelling, but the evidence is not there yet.
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By Penni Russon, Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
Shaun Tan’s groundbreaking graphic story, The Arrival, counters the dangerous fantasy of a homogeneous (white) Australia – and invites us to inhabit the other.
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By Boram Lee, Senior Lecturer, Adelaide University
OzAsia is more than a festival, and its loss will be felt at a time when Asian-Australians need inclusion more than ever.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Members of the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim group in Myanmar are “suffering, misery, and cruelty on multiple levels and across the country that is heartbreaking,” according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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By Liam Anderson
Women in Nampula turned the capulana into a symbol of resistance, while social media amplified protests, digital activism, and debates regarding state control and civic rights in Mozambique.
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By Diana Tung, Postdoctoral Researcher, FOODCIRCUITS, Universitat de Barcelona
Seth M. Holmes, ICREA Researcher, Department of Social Anthropology, Hub for Global Social Medicine, University of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona; ICREA; University of California, Berkeley
In August 2026, a deep humanitarian crisis unfolded in Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave situated on Morocco’s northern coast. Around 72,000 people entered from Morocco over the course of two days. More than 100 drowned trying to cross into Spanish territory.
The vast majority of migrants soon returned to Morocco, but at present, as…
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By Qian Liu, Associate Professor, Law and Society, University of Calgary
The reluctance to use written legal documentation isn’t primarily rooted in Confucian values, as scholars have commonly argued. It’s a response to structural inequality.
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By Bradley Wood-MacLean, PhD Student, Political Science, University of Toronto
Semra Sevi, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, University of Toronto
The bigger movement in the data over the past quarter-century is at the other end of the age spectrum: A reliable base of older Conservative Party voters is largely gone.
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