By Natalie Harkin, Associate Professor, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
In an extract from her new book, Narungga poet and researcher Natalie Harkin reveals intimate truths about the shameful history of Aboriginal domestic labour.
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By Alexander Kaurov, PhD Candidate in Science and Society, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
An AI audit of scientific research would likely expose some fraud and widespread inconsequential work. But we need to be careful it doesn’t discredit science in general.
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By Alan Renwick, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand
High demand for dairy has been good for farmers. But with the price of butter nearing $10, shoppers are asking if it’s time for the government to get involved.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Police detain an activist in front of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2025, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed "extremist." © 2025 AP Photo This week, Russia’s State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, adopted a draft law that imposes fines on ordinary citizens for “intentionally” searching for “extremist” content on the internet, including via censorship circumvention tools like Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).Violations of these new amendments…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's minister for climate change, speaks surrounded by demonstrators at the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change in The Hague, Netherlands, July 23, 2025. © 2025 Peter Dejong/AP Photo The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a unanimous opinion on July 23, 2025, that climate change is "an existential problem of planetary proportions that imperils all forms of life and the very health of our planet."The long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the Obligations…
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By Geoff Beattie, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University
We are living in an age of anxiety. People face multiple existential crises such as climate change and conflicts that could potentially escalate into nuclear war. So how do people cope with competing threats like this? And what happens to climate anxiety when wars suddenly…
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By Eerke Boiten, Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
As of July 25 2025, people in the UK accessing web services with pornographic content will have to prove they are over 18 years of age. This development has been in the works for a while. It was proposed in 2014 by the video-on-demand regulator, and legislated for introduction in 2019 through the British Board of Film Classification. It is of course important to stop children from accessing inappropriate…
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By Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, University of Westminster
The House of Lords this week approved government legislation that will allow foreign states to hold up to a 15% stake in British newspaper publishers. This vote clears the way for the American investment company Redbird to take control of the troubled Telegraph newspaper group following two years of uncertainty. An integral element of that…
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By Karl Bell, Reader in Cultural History, University of Portsmouth
Maritime folklore has long been shuffled to the margins of nautical history, presented as the quaint, colourful oddities of a former age. Yet this body of beliefs, practices and stories can offer important insights into how seafarers of the 19th century viewed and understood their working environment. Beneath the dominant histories of European exploration, heroic naval battles and imperial claims to mastery of the seas, there was the daily reality of working, living and, not uncommonly, dying in a dangerous…
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By Travis Van Isacker, Senior Research Associate, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol
The recent Cranston Inquiry has shed light on the rescue operation that failed to prevent the deaths of at least 30 people in the Channel.
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