By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
The way the case was handled has done substantial damage to the ABC’s reputation, not just for impartiality but for its capacity to stand up for its staff.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung during his inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly in Seoul, June 4, 2025. © 2025 Anthony Wallace/AP Photo (Seoul) – South Korea’s new government should adopt measures to address human rights problems in the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Lee Jae-myung. It is critically important for the government to bolster democratic institutions, end entrenched discrimination, protect digital rights, and promote North Koreans’ human rights.President Lee took office on June 4, 2025,…
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By Conrad Daniel Mackenzie Wilson, PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, Carleton University
A newly discovered species of ancient predatory fish in Nova Scotia sheds light on how early ray-finned fish evolved new ways to feed.
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By Donald Heflin, Executive Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
While Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire after 12 days of airstrikes, it isn’t clear what specific measures, if any, the countries might agree to in order to keep the peace.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Opposition politician and president of the Dalfa-Umurinzi party, Victoire Ingabire, at the High Court in Kigali on March 13, 2024. © 2025 Photo by Guillem Sartorio / AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The Rwandan authorities rearrested Victoire Ingabire, the head of an unregistered political party, on June 19, 2025, as a part of a drawn-out trial that targets political opposition figures, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should release Ingabire and other people detained on politically motivated grounds and guarantee the rights to freedom of expression,…
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Gender-based violence is rising - especially in conflict – something which is a “shameless repudiation of the basic rules of warfare,” according to the UN human rights chief Volker Türk.
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By Kevin Veale, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, part of the Digital Cultures Laboratory in the School of Humanities, Media, and Creative Communication, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
NZ Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour says his Victim of the Day posts are ‘a bit playful’. Yet not so long ago, he was demanding apologies for similar ‘jokes’.
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By Conrad Daniel Mackenzie Wilson, PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, Carleton University
A newly discovered species of ancient predatory fish in Nova Scotia sheds light on how early ray-finned fish evolved new ways to feed.
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By Ismail Albayrak, Professor of Islam and Catholic Muslim Relations, Australian Catholic University
Food, religious rituals, gender relations … Ibn Battuta described them all in his travelogue, which covered the medieval Islamic world, India, China and beyond.
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By Phoebe Toups Dugas, Associate Professor of Human-Centred Computing, Monash University
Michelle Cormier, PhD Candidate / Research Assistant, Monash University
New research highlights how game makers can design for trans-inclusivity – because if we want trans joy in the world, we will have to design for it.
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