By Fethi Mansouri, Distinguished Professor in Migration and Intercultural Studies, Deakin University
The Albanese government has handed down its response to its special envoy’s report on Islamophobia in Australia, ten months after it was tabled. Despite some positive steps forward, the response doesn’t go nearly far enough to address the scope of the problem.
Special envoy Aftab Malik’s report had 54 recommendations for how to tackle…
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By Muwatin Media Network
Many stateless people in the Gulf live in extremely difficult conditions: excluded from education, employment, public healthcare and freedom of movement, while also suffering political and social discrimination
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By Ray Wills, Adjunct Professor in Sustainability, The University of Western Australia
Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
In 2019, China was a minor player in Australia’s car market. Seven years later, it’s now the biggest supplier of new vehicles overall – including about 80% of Australia’s electric vehicles (EVs). The shift to EVs has accelerated markedly this year amid oil…
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By Human Rights Watch
“Through rap, I'll stage a coup d’Étatwith my spiteful homies, ‘cause their lives are all stormy weather… Go ahead, take me — blindfold my eyes, reopen Tazmamart, and throw me in.”With these biting lyrics, 34-year-old Moroccan rap star Mehdi Lyoubi, known as Mehdi Black Wind, invoked the infamous Tazmamart prison, where those accused of plotting against the monarchy were jailed in atrocious conditions from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s. Click to expand Image Mehdi El Youbi. © Mehdi El Youbi/Facebook When a Moroccan judge ordered the detention of…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Bangladesh military and Rapid Action Battalion personnel stand guard outside the Supreme Court in Dhaka, February 8, 2025. © 2025 Suvra Kanti Das/Abaca/Sipa via AP Photo (London) – The Bangladeshi authorities should immediately comply with a July 12, 2026 court order to investigate the alleged disappearance of 30-year-old Miraj Sheikh, who was last seen in the custody of the Coast Guard, in what appears to be the first known enforced disappearance case in two years, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should also reverse its decision to scrap reforms aimed…
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By Ashmitaa Thiruselvam, Social Media Cadet, The Conversation
On the limitations of auctions, effects of immigration on climate change and voluntary assisted dying: an edited selection of your views.
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By Ashmitaa Thiruselvam, Social Media Cadet, The Conversation
On questioning the nation’s strategic concerns about China, becoming a non-aligned nation and AI reducing total working hours: an edited selection of your views.
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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 July 20
On media balance
“This is an excellent article. Accurate and fair, educative and temperate. I am a secondary teacher and this is the type of article that all senior students need to read: not just for its social comment…
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By Andrew Cullen, Senior Research Fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
At a two-and-a-half-hour Senate grilling on Friday, Telstra executives revealed just how bad their catastrophic outage earlier this month was. At its peak, it affected about 45% of calls and data across the telco giant’s national network.
The root cause was a failed software update of a piece of hardware…
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By Zakaria Lacheheb, Assistant Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia
Universities’ crackdown on the use of AI misses the point. They should instead teach it as a vital productivity tool, undepinned by ethics.
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