By Rising Voices
Europe's linguistic diversity is increasingly finding a home online. Rising Voices’ @EuroDigitalLang campaign showcases narratives from a language activist who will be sharing digital initiatives working with the Irish language.
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By Karrin Vasby Anderson, Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
Tim Bakken, Professor of Law, United States Military Academy West Point
Both scholars stressed they are working very hard to be ‘vigorously neutral’ about Trump himself, while noting that the trial is drawing attention to a broader subject: his approach to the media.
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By Amin Naeni, PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Iranian commentators are warning of a potential economic shock and wider public unrest should Trump resume his ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against the country’s leaders.
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Queensland Premier Steven Miles’ net-approval rating was the worst for a leader in the state since YouGov started doing polls for The Courier Mail.
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By Tristan Salles, Associate professor, University of Sydney
Ian Moffat, Associate Professor of Archaeological Science, Flinders University
Laurent Husson, Earth sciences researcher, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
Manon Lorcery, PhD Candidate, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Professor, Southern Cross University
By detailing the landscape at the time of first humans’ migration into Australia, we can better understand how people travelled and where they settled.
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By Felicity Castagna, Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University
I live on the edge of Parramatta, Australia’s fastest-growing city, on the kind of old-fashioned suburban street that has 1950s fibros constructed in the post-war housing boom, double-storey brick homes with Greek columns that aspirational migrants built in the 1970s and half-crumbling, Federation-era…
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By Michael Ryan, Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato
New Zealand’s history of inflation, recessions and unemployment offer clues to what might happen next. Coupled with global events, the outlook is not promising.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Australian soldiers take part in training exercises in Townsville, Australia, June 30, 2023. © 2023 Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images (Sydney) - The Australian government should include human rights vetting provisions in all bilateral security force cooperation agreements, Human Rights Watch said in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties. The committee is reviewing a proposed agreement between Australia and Fiji for defence cooperation. “The Australian military should not support, train, or appoint to its ranks anyone credibly accused of committing…
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By Caroline Emberson, Rights Lab Assistant Professor in Operations Management, University of Nottingham
The health and social care visa route was introduced in August 2020 as a response to labour shortages after Brexit and the COVID pandemic. Now, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration has found that the Home Office’s “limited understanding of the sector” has put care workers at risk of exploitation.
An independent report, published in March, details the…
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By Bryce J. Casavant, Associate lecturer, School of Humanitarian Studies, Royal Roads University
British Columbia’s proposed new police law, Bill 17, has excluded provincial armed environmental law enforcement from its legal definition of “police.” Why does this matter?
At the heart of this issue lies a fundamental legal question. Should environmental police services be treated in the law as regular police and, crucially, subject to the same regulatory oversight?
For many officers,…
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