By Stephen Townsend, Research Fellow, UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland
Alan Pearce, Professor, Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Health Science, Swinburne University of Technology
The death of a 17-year-old community cricket player has raised questions about how well helmets and neck protectors are working.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A boy shows a scar allegedly from a rubber bullet fired by the Royal Eswatini Police Service (REPS) during pro-democracy protests. Photo taken on October 28, 2021 in the outskirts of Manzini, Eswatini. © 2021 MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images No member of the Eswatini security forces has been held accountable for deploying tasers, teargas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition against participants and passers-by in the June 2021 pro-democracy protests.Over four years have passed since scores of students, activists, and passers-by were killed, and hundreds more…
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By Archana Koirala, Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist; Clinical Researcher, University of Sydney
Joel Vosu, Clinical Associate Lecturer, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Chickenpox parties are a thing of the past but the virus is still circulating. Most illness is mild but some people can become seriously ill.
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By Justine Bell-James, Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
Labor’s long-awaited environmental reforms do represent progress. But ambition levels have been dialled back and much depends on the detail.
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By Amnesty International
Visa systems in Europe’s Schengen area function like an obstacle course for human rights defenders from different parts of the world, preventing many from participating in key decision-making forums. These obstacles contradict the rights and values that Schengen states claim to uphold, Amnesty International said in a new report today. Closing the door? How visa […] The post Europe: Human rights defenders excluded by discriminatory Schengen visa system appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Global Voices Latin America
The Nobel Committee recognized Machado's leadership during the Venezuelan 2024 presidential election: she spearheaded one of Venezuela’s most ambitious civic electoral monitoring efforts, essential in documenting and verifying electoral fraud.
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By Thomas Lockwood, PhD Researcher in Politics, York St John University
Plaid Cymru’s overwhelming victory in the recent Caerphilly Senedd byelection shattered over a century of political tradition. Lindsay Whittle took the seat with 15,691 votes. Labour, which had held the seat since it was created, came away with just 3,713 votes.
Reform came second to Plaid, with 12,113 votes. And while this was an impressive performance, the fact that it failed to win Caerphilly even after vast amounts of time and money spent on the campaign has led to speculation that tactical voting played a part in this byelection.
A big clue that tactical voting was…
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By Summer May Finlay, Senior Lecturer - Indigenous Health, University of Wollongong
To close the gap, we need First Nations people involved in the evaluation of what worked and what didn’t about Indigenous-focused wellbeing programs.
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By Jessica Taubert, Associate Professor, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That’s “face pareidolia” and it is a perfectly normal illusion where our brains spot faces in patterns that aren’t actually faces.
For most of us, these illusions are harmless. But my new research, published in Perception, suggests people with visual snow syndrome – a rare neurological condition that causes constant “visual static” – experience this phenomenon more strongly and more often.
This…
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
South Sudan faces a renewed slide into full-scale conflict unless urgent international action is taken, the UN-appointed independent investigative body examining human rights there warned on Wednesday.
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