By Darryl Veitch, Professor of Computer Networking, University of Technology Sydney
Allison Kealy, Director, Innovative Planet Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
Telstra experienced a second major network fault after yesterday’s nationwide outage, with the telco confirming late last night that some calls, including to Triple Zero, were not going through.
At a press conference this afternoon, Michael…
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By Steve Bickley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Economics & Finance, Queensland University of Technology
What makes people change their minds, or their behaviour? Social scientists spend a lot of time thinking about this question, and experiments are one of the most powerful ways to answer it.
Experiments – testing ideas on real people – take considerable amounts of time and money. Enter large language models (LLMs): artificial intelligence (AI) systems trained to mimic certain kinds of text-based human behaviour based on vast amounts of…
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By Jessica Genauer, Academic Director, School of Public Policy and Government, UNSW Sydney
New tit-for-tat airstrikes between the US and Iran over control of the Strait of Hormuz suggest the ceasefire will not turn into a permanent peace.
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By Niusha Shafiabady, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University
Md Akhtaruzzaman, Professor of Finance and Head of Department, Accounting and Finance, Australian Catholic University
The most important lesson for Australia is not to slow digitalisation, but to make it more resilient and remove single points of failure.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Security forces disperse protesters near the parliament building in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 12, 2026. © 2026 Aristote Lokinda/Reuters (Kinshasa) – Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo used excessive force against protesters demonstrating against a proposed law that could extend President Félix Tshisekedi’s term on June 12, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.The security forces used tear gas and batons in the capital, Kinshasa, to prevent a group of protesters created to defend the existing constitution from attending…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Antonovsky bridge destroyed by the Russian army with explosives in its retreat of Kherson, Ukraine, November 16, 2022. © 2022 Celestino Arce Lavin/ZUMA via Reuters (Berlin, July 9, 2026) – Civilians trapped in front-line areas of the Russian-occupied Khersonska region in southern Ukraine face dire humanitarian conditions and have no safe way to leave, Human Rights Watch said today. Civilians who wish to evacuate should be allowed to do so safely.Residents who escaped the city of Oleshky, on the east bank of the Dnipro River, described severe shortages…
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Three survivors of a genocide which took place in Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in July 1995 have told UN News how they are keeping alive the memory of the more than 8,300 men and boys who were killed in the town while combating the rising current of denial about the massacre.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Protesters gather outside the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 26, 2026. © 2026 Sebastien Canaud/NurPhoto via AP Photo Georgian authorities are using repressive laws, funding restrictions, and politically motivated criminal investigations to dismantle independent civil society. New laws place virtually all foreign funding under strict government control, impose stigmatizing “foreign agent” labels, and threaten activists and independent groups with severe fines and prison sentences.The government should repeal these unjustifiable legal measures…
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By Amnesty International
Three Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon in March 2026 that killed 24 civilians – 12 of them children – wiping out families, must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said today. The organization investigated three Israeli attacks that destroyed civilian homes in al-Thakana neighbourhood in Tyre district, Irkay village in Saida district, and al-Rahbat neighbourhood in Nabatieh district on 6, 12, and 13 March, respectively. Those killed included 12 children, ranging in ages from […] The post Lebanon: Israeli attacks killing children, wiping out families must be investigated…
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By Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury
The new Australian film is an effective exploration of one woman’s eating disorder, and a worthy entry into the growing canon of contemporary female-led horror.
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