By Nicole Lee, Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
Wastewater data can only measure the volume of drugs consumed, not the number of people using them or the level of harm they experience.
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By Stephanie Milford, Research Officer, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University; Curtin University; Federation University Australia
A new study spoke to first-time parents about ‘screen rules’ and how they apply in the chaos of family life.
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By Martin Kear, Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Francesca Albanese, an Italian lawyer and scholar, is the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, comprising the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Her job is to report to the UN on the human rights situation in these territories.
Since its inception in 1993, the role of rapporteur has been controversial and at times adversarial. Previous appointees were regularly castigated by Israeli governments and pro-Israel lobby groups for their…
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By James Hall, Lecturer, Media & Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University
This toxic social media trend proves how – even today – women are punished and pathologised for simply being less than perfect.
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By Alexandre Siqueira, ARC DECRA and Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
Some parts of this epic coral reef system weren’t even where the greatest reefs are found today. But remnants have survived.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image “Mina” in Panama City, Panama, 2025. © 2025 Human Rights Watch A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected on April 24 the government’s denial of the right to seek asylum for asylum seekers who arrive at the southern border. The ruling stops summary deportations based on President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day proclamation of an “invasion” at the US-Mexico border.The court held that US immigration law “makes plain that the right to apply for asylum is broadly available to all foreign individuals present or arriving in the…
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By Philip Murphy, Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
The king’s speech pushed in interesting ways at the boundaries of what a British monarch might be expected to have said in Trump’s America.
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By Miquel Cabal Guarro, Professor lector, Secció d'Estudis Eslaus, Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes, Universitat de Barcelona
In June 2018 I had the opportunity to visit Minsk, the capital of Belarus. In a large bookshop in the city centre – beneath the inquisitorial gaze of the ever-present portraits of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko – I asked the bookseller for one of the volumes of Svetlana Alexievich’s collected works. The Russian publisher Vremya had reissued them after the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015.
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By Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Professor in International Relations, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Over the past two decades, global health has undergone a profound transformation. As public funding for international health and development has become increasingly unpredictable, private philanthropy has largely stepped in to fund global programmes.
It is well known that large foundations, such as the Gates Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, or the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to list a few, now largely contribute to the budgets of the…
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By Louise Gentle, Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
Birds sing the most around an hour before dawn, when the air is at its stillest. Theoretically, this enables sounds to travel further, making song up to 20 times more effective than if sung at midday.
With International Dawn Chorus day approaching, it’s time to take a moment to soak in the spring birdsong and notice the individual harmonies blending together.
International…
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