By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Shui-Meng Ng holds a picture of her husband, Sombath Somphone, the forcibly disappeared Lao activist, following a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, December 12, 2018. © 2018 ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images (Sydney) – Australian officials should press the Lao government to take concrete steps to improve its human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. The 9th Australia-Laos Human Rights Dialogue is scheduled for Vientiane on November 18, 2025.In an October submission to Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Human Rights Watch urged…
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By Julie Deslippe, Senior Lecturer in Plant Ecology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The disaster should raise questions about how we fund, manage and protect these vulnerable habitats when climate change is outpacing conservation efforts.
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By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Drink driving in Australia is declining thanks to the right mix of laws, visibility and social messaging. Four strategies could make a difference with drug driving.
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By Alexander Korolev, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, UNSW Sydney
The EU is not abandoning Ukraine, but it is recalibrating its risk exposure. There is growing doubt that Ukraine can win – even if EU leaders won’t say so aloud.
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By Kelsie Boulton, Senior Research Fellow in Child Neurodevelopment, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
Adam Guastella, Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health, University of Sydney
New research shows children and families with the greatest and more complex needs have more delays to accessing assessments and support.
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By Ben Edwards, Professor, Child and Youth Development and Longitudinal Studies, Australian National University
Jessica Arnup, Research Fellow, Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
Kate Doery, Research Officer, Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
An increasing number of Australian school students are applying for an early offer to university, before they have their exam results back.
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By Heather L. Robinson, Research Associate - Creative Industries, Flinders University
A new report shows that visits to Australian public libraries are up 10% – though funding is down. They provide everything from books and internet to help with CVs.
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By Prudence Rees-Lee, PhD Candidate, School of Design, RMIT University
Kraftwerk helped invent modern electronic music. What happens to their legacy when a co-founder’s studio is broken up and sold off?
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By Michael J. I. Brown, Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the Sun.
It sounds easy enough. The Sun is unbelievably massive, with gravity sufficient to keep the planets in their orbits over billions of years. How hard can it be?
Well, it may be harder than you think.
Fire away
The obvious way to fire someone into the Sun is the direct approach, as shown in South Park Season 1. Point a rocket at…
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By Christian Eva, Research Fellow, POLIS: The Centre for Social Research and Policy, Australian National University
The new research maps where $7 billion of contracts went over eight years. It shows Indigenous businesses in Canberra won a surprisingly large slice of the funds.
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