By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Parliament began it’s first full day and while the Government continues to ride high, a call from senior Nationals to drop the commitment to Net-Zero, leaves Sussan Ley in trouble.
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By José Manuel Cabrero, Catedrático. Estructuras Arquitectónicas y Construcción con Madera. Cátedra Madera Onesta, Universidad de Navarra
Rayder Willian Leonardo Laura, Científico investigador, Universidad de Navarra
Most of us are already quite comfortable recycling our household waste. In Spain, for instance, millions of tonnes of packaging are processed every year, but did you know that buildings and their materials can also be recycled, or that an entire building could be completely dismantled and reassembled?
Formula 1, often a laboratory for innovation, offers us a real-world example of this in the form of the Red Bull team’s “pit box”, known as the F1Holzhaus…
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By Matt Warren, Managing Director, Universal Impact, The Conversation
We believe in the power of research to change the world for the better. But we also understand that research needs to be shared – effectively and accessibly – if it is to have its greatest impact.
As the Conversation UK’s specialist communications subsidiary, Universal Impact’s mission is to enable researchers to communicate their work, in a targeted way, to a wide range of different audiences. Which is why we’re currently working with Prototypes…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Eternity C sinks after it was struck by a Houthi missile on July 8, 2025, on the Red Sea. © 2025 Houthi Media Center/Getty Images (Beirut) – The Houthi armed group in Yemen attacked two commercial cargo vessels in the Red Sea between July 6 and 9, 2025, violations of the laws of war amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The Houthis sunk both ships, killing and injuring several crew members, and appear to be unlawfully detaining six rescued crew members.The Houthis, who have controlled most of Yemen since 2015, sought to justify the…
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By Aimee E. Smith, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Net Zero Observatory, The University of Queensland
Covering the cost of someone else obviously makes a dent in your own bank account. But researchers found it could have some surprising impacts on your happiness.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Former Niger President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 16, 2023. © 2023 Michel Euler/AP Photo (Nairobi) – Authorities in Niger should immediately release former President Mohamed Bazoum, who remains arbitrarily detained two years after he was ousted in a military coup, Human Rights Watch said today.On July 26, 2023, Nigerien army officers of the self-proclaimed National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (Conseil National pour la sauveguarde de la patrie, CNSP), led by Brig. Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani, overthrew Bazoum’s government and…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A woman consoles her 6-year-old daughter, who is malnourished, at a shelter in central Gaza City, on May 11, 2025. © 2025 Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP Photo Last summer, my son, then two months old, got sick while visiting family in California. Before our eyes, he rapidly lost weight, falling below his birth weight, until his body went into shock. Doctors later told us he almost died.I will never forget what it felt like to see his bones protruding, hearing him cry and being unable to soothe him, and watching him go days without smiling.This is the reality parents…
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By Amnesty International
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes. Exactly two months since the Israeli government-controlled scheme, the […] The post As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Tania Chatterjee, Joint PhD Candidate at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, The University of Queensland
Agam Gupta, Associate Professor, Technology and Society, The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Pradip Ninan Thomas, Associate Professor in Communication & Media, The University of Queensland
Big tech platforms often present content moderation as a seamless, tech‑driven system. But human labour, often outsourced to countries such as India and the Philippines, plays a pivotal role in…
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By Andrew Norton, Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
The debt changes will deliver major benefits to recent graduates, but much less to current students and nothing to future students.
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