By Angela Conquet, PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
In three works presented at the festival, protagonists throw their bodies into the fight and dance with depth and urgency.
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By Jessica Kaufman, Research Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Julie Leask, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Last week, the Australian government announced a new National Immunisation Strategy for 2025–30. This strategy sets out the government’s priorities for improving vaccine uptake for children, adolescents and adults over the next five years.
It comes at an important moment. Childhood vaccination coverage has been declining…
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By Sarah Lothian, Senior Lecturer in Maritime Law and Academic Barrister, University of Wollongong
After 20 years of intense debate, the world looks set to have a treaty protecting marine life out beyond national waters.
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By Ashlynne McGhee, Digital Storytelling Editor
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au
Monday June 16
No deal
“In the era where the US Defence Secretary is hinting that he has plans to take Greenland by force, are we really sure that we want to
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By James Dwyer, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
Late last week, Israel began a wave of attacks on Iran under the banner of Operation Rising Lion, with the stated goal of crippling the Islamic republic’s nuclear program and long-range strike capabilities. At the outset, Israel claimed Iran would soon be able to build nine nuclear weapons, a situation Israel regarded as completely unacceptable.
Following Israeli…
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By Matt Fitzpatrick, Professor in International History, Flinders University
In the late 1960s, the prevailing opinion among Israeli Shin Bet intelligence officers was that the key to defeating the Palestinian Liberation Organisation was to assassinate its then-leader Yasser Arafat.
The elimination of Arafat, the Shin Bet commander Yehuda Arbel wrote in his diary, was “a precondition to finding a solution to…
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By Kaitlin Cook, DECRA Fellow, Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications, Australian National University
Uranium has civilian uses that have nothing to do with weapons. For a bomb, the uranium needs to be a lot more concentrated.
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By Laura
Poor natural resource governance has prevented the redistribution of resources that could aid the development of this country, which is classified as having a lower-middle-income.
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By Amnesty International
States must urgently deliver ambitious climate action by mapping out a just transition away from fossil fuels in all sectors to prevent even worse human rights harms around the world, Amnesty International said in a new briefing to mark the start of the Bonn Climate Conference which takes place between 16-26 June. Despite the challenges […] The post Global: Urgent action needed as climate crisis leads to devastating new harms to human rights appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees attend a solidarity event with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the Bangladesh Interim Government, at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 14, 2025. © 2025 Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters Dawood is 19 years old and living in a crowded Rohingya refugee settlement in Bangladesh. He says his life is shattered. In February 2024, the Myanmar military conscripted Dawood and other Rohingya men and boys to fight the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group, in Rakhine State. They received little…
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