By Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
Anti-immigration rallies across Australia are the culmination of years of political scaremongering. But better immigration messaging could change the trajectory.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 9, 2024. © 2024 Press Association via AP Images (Beirut) – The United Kingdom government should publicly pledge to incorporate strong human rights conditions before a Free Trade Agreement between the UK and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is signed, a coalition of 14 human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, and trade unions said in a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer today. “Without strong rights protections in the forthcoming…
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By Amnesty International
The report contains sensitive content that may be upsetting for some readers. X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has contributed to the spread of targeted hate against LGBTI people in Poland, Amnesty International said in a new report analyzing the platform’s business model for the first time. The report, ‘A Thousand Cuts’: […] The post Poland: Twitter/X facilitated spread of anti-LGBTI hatred and harassment appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Felicity Deane, Professor of Trade Law and Taxation, Queensland University of Technology
Trading partners of the United States are facing a fresh period of uncertainty after a US federal appeals court ruled President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs were illegal.
In a 7-4 majority, the judges ruled Trump had exceeded his power by invoking emergency powers to impose tariffs of “unlimited duration on nearly all goods from nearly…
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By Claudio Bozzi, Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
Taiwan is particularly vulnerable to a naval blockade, with only four months of emergency food reserves and three months of fuel reserves.
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By Eda Gunaydin, Lecturer, International Studies, University of Wollongong
The protagonist in Raaza Jamshed’s novel What Kept You? grows up in Lahore, Pakistan, under her grandmother’s watchful eye, in a house that sits in the shadow of the city’s walls. The memory of the turmoil and human suffering that resulted from India’s Partition in 1947 swirls around Jahan’s upbringing.
In an attempt to make her fearful of what awaits her outside the relative safety of home, Jahan’s female carers tell her stories about demons, as well as the more mundane reality of men’s…
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By Tristen Anne Norrie Jones, Academic Fellow, Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of Sydney
Alfred Nayinggul, Senior Erre Traditional Owner, Indigenous Knowledge
Sam Provost, Associate Academic and PhD Candidate, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
This new project has strong potential to be scaled up and delivered in other land and cultural heritage management contexts.
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By Nick Fuller, Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney
When I mention kids and nuts in the same sentence, some parents react like I’ve dropped the F-bomb, thanks to the association of nuts with two other F-words: fat and fear.
Parents sometimes avoid nuts due to claims they cause unwanted weight gain or trigger life-threatening allergies.
But nuts are good good for kids – and avoiding them can do more harm than good.
The fats in nuts are healthy fats
Decades of exposure to the diet industry’s relentless low-fat marketing have led parents to believe that all fats are bad. But this isn’t the case.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
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 September 1
Gender-affirming surgery
“Considering that people can barely afford to go to the GP anymore because so few bulk bill and it has been years since government funding has matched the costs of the GP, not to mention that Medicare still does not cover dentistry and glasses as if teeth and eyes are completely separate from the body, I really think gender-affirming…
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By Simon Levett, PhD candidate, public international law, University of Technology Sydney
Palestinian journalists do not have access to the same training, equipment or pay as foreign correspondents, despite the fact their lives are on the line in Gaza.
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