By Jeslyn Lemke
About 60 to 70 percent of the Ghanaian population depends on the traditional medicine market for their medical care, according to a 2023 study in Frontiers in Pharmacology.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Indigenous residents from Nueva Vizcaya province protest outside the Mines and Geosciences Bureau and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Quezon City, Philippines, on July 13, 2026. © 2026 Charles Edmon Perez/JNA Press/Sipa USA via AP Photo Philippine police on August 28 dispersed a barricade that Indigenous communities had erected in Kasibu town, Nueva Vizcaya province, and arrested 11 Indigenous protesters. Members of the Bugkalot/Ilangot and other tribes have peacefully maintained a barricade since May to oppose the exploration activities of…
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Wednesday, September 2nd 2026
Yasmin Al-Mashaan lost five brothers during more than a decade of conflict in Syria. Two were forcibly disappeared. Three were killed during peaceful demonstrations or by snipers loyal to the Bashar Al-Assad regime.
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
In the two latest new federal polls, Morgan was good for Labor but Essential was bad. There were four federal polls taken last week, largely before the Western Australian Secret Harbour byelection.
The total vote for One Nation and the Coalition was 44% in Morgan (down four), 49% in Newspoll…
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By Liz Evans, Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
Life of M bleeds fact into fiction, but it requires much more of the reader than a simple guessing game of who’s who.
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By Rachel Lamarche-Beauchesne, Senior Lecturer in Fashion Enterprise, Torrens University Australia
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s planned 2027 Costume Institute exhibition, John Galliano: Horizons, has been cancelled, following Galliano’s statement that “it is best for the exhibition not to take place at this time”.
The exhibition was intended to provide a retrospective of the British designer’s highly influential, four-decade career.
But Galliano,…
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By Andrew J. Martin, Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW
A new study looks at how students’ capacity to handle adversity relates to their ability to manage changes at school.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Greens’ longest serving federal politician said politics ‘isn’t working’ for ordinary voters and all parties need to do better at addressing their grievances.
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By Peter Edwell, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University
Every second Wednesday, like clockwork, my salary arrives in my bank account. By Thursday, most of it is gone.
Recently, though, as I contemplated its fortnightly appearance and disappearance, I started thinking about the origin of the word “salary”. As a historian of the ancient Roman Empire, I often think about the modern legacy it continues to bestow.
It’s a common belief that the English word “salary” derives from the Latin word salarium…
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By Izabella Nantsou, Academic in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney
Disputes from 1944 to today trace the increasingly central role of government funding in shaping working conditions in the arts.
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