By John Hawkins, Head, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
Reports of the death of the US dollar appear to be greatly exaggerated (like that of author Mark Twain).
Global trading in the foreign exchange market has risen to almost US$10 trillion (A$15 trillion) per day. This figure comes from a survey released…
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By Amnesty International
Chinese courts are systematically weaponizing vague national security and public order laws to silence human rights defenders, Amnesty International said today in a new report exposing the judiciary’s central role in sustaining the Beijing authorities’ crackdown on fundamental freedoms. The research briefing, How could this verdict be ‘legal’?, published on China’s National Day, analyses more […] The post China: Courts used as tools of systematic repression against human rights defenders appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Nicodemus Minde, Researcher, United States International University
Tanzania has conducted regular polls since the first multiparty elections in 1995. But they have often failed to meet democratic standards. The opposition has been persistently excluded and restricted, and media freedoms and civil rights have been suppressed. This pattern has come to be identified as electoral authoritarianism.
Tanzania’s ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), will seek to extend its dominance…
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Lifesaving relief efforts to help remote Afghan communities devastated by last month’s deadly earthquake have already been hit by the de facto authorities’ decision to cut internet access nationwide, UN aid agencies said on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
“Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing.” With those stark words, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock opened a high-level UN conference on Tuesday, as alarm rises over the impact of Myanmar’s deepening crisis which threatens to destabilise the wider region.
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By Joel Barnes, Honorary Research Fellow, History, The University of Queensland; University of Sydney
The barque Glenswilly arrived in Sydney Harbour from Greenock, outside Glasgow, on October 29 1839. Among the new arrivals were Hugh Dixson, his wife Helen, and their infant son, also named Hugh.
At 29 years old, Hugh Dixson had been in business as an Edinburgh tobacco manufacturer and retailer for a decade. He came to Sydney, according to the standard story, to evade high excise duties on tobacco in Scotland, and possibly at the urging of the immigration reformer and pillar of the Sydney Scottish community…
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By Georgia van Toorn, Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
Instead of collecting evidence and submitting reports, participants will have an interview with an assessor that lasts up to three hours.
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By Jon Wardle, Professor of Public Health, Southern Cross University
Supermodel Noami Campbell is said to be into it, as is the US military. Here’s what you need to know about ear seeding.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A discussion about the 1965-1966 massacres in a Jakarta bookstore with Martin Aleida, a former political prisoner (a journalist of the Harian Rakjat, a mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Indonesia), Nani Nurrachman Sutojo (the daughter of a general killed by the September 30th Movement), and Eunike Sri Tyas Suci, a psychologist who edited a book on the traumas of the victims, September 30, 2025. © 2025 Andreas Harsono/Human Rights Watch Tari Lang in her new memoir recalls the morning of October 1, 1965, when as a 14-year-old, she had watched Indonesian tanks and…
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By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
Daniel Pfurtscheller, Assistent Professor, Media Linguistics, University of Innsbruck
Katharina Christ, Senior Researcher, Media Studies, National Institute for Science Communication
Katharina Lobinger, Professor of Online and Visual Communication, Università della Svizzera italiana
Nataliia Laba, Assistant Professor in Digital and Multimodal Communication / Humane AI, University of Groningen
From the earliest year of school, children begin learning how to express ideas in different ways. Lines across a page, a wobbly letter, or a simple drawing form the foundation for how we share meaning beyond spoken language.
Over time, those first marks evolve into complex ideas. Children learn to combine words with visuals, express abstract concepts, and recognise how images,…
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