By Kit MacFarlane, Lecturer, Creative Writing and Literature, University of South Australia
The enduring legacy of the 1925 film – with Lon Chaney as a villainous Phantom – is complicated by its tangled release history and multiple versions.
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By Liam Gillespie, Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
March For Australia did not occur in a vacuum. There’s a long history of racism and nationalism we’re at risk of obscuring.
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By Jake Newman-Martin, PhD Candidate in Palaeontology, Curtin University
Alison Blyth, Associate Professor, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
Kenny Travouillon, Curator of Mammals, Western Australian Museum
Milo Barham, Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
Natalie Warburton, Associate Professor in Anatomy, Murdoch University
You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies too, and most likely quokkas as well.
Less famous are their small endangered cousins, the bettongs. These little marsupials love to dig and have a thing for mushrooms.
Because of their size and relative scarcity, it has always been hard to work out exactly how many different species of bettongs there are and where they all live.
Scientists have believed there are five living species of bettongs – but our new research, published today in…
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By Ken M.P. Setiawan, Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies, The University of Melbourne
Charlotte Setijadi, Lecturer in Asian Studies, The University of Melbourne
Elisabeth Kramer, Scientia Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy, UNSW Sydney
During the recent mass protests and political unrest in Indonesia, the looted homes of politicians in Jakarta revealed unexpected victims: the MPs pet cats.
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By Melek Cigdem-Bayram, Ronald Henderson Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Travers McLeod, Honorary Enterprise Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Some estimates say up to one in seven people are living in poverty, but Australia doesn’t properly measure it. Here’s how we could.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the US government’s decision to impose sanctions against Palestinian NGOs, al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in the context of sanctions imposed against International Criminal Court (ICC)- related activities, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International said: “The Trump […] The post Israel/ OPT: US sanctions against Palestinian NGOs a blatant attack on human rights appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the recently published letter sent by seven UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights to Shell, Eni and other oil companies as well as the governments of the companies’ home countries and Nigeria regarding the historic pollution of the Niger Delta, Isa Sanusi, Amnesty International Nigeria’s Director, said: “Amnesty International has researched and campaigned […] The post Nigeria: Shell remains responsible for cleaning up and remediating historic oil pollution despite divestment appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Leaders assemble at the 2024 Pacific Islands Forum in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, August 26, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay Pacific leaders preparing to gather for the Pacific Islands Forum in Solomon Islands this month have accepted a collective responsibility: to act decisively for the many Indigenous communities already living the sobering realities of climate displacement.Over the last decades, abnormally high “king tides” and storms forced one such community, the Solomon Islander people of Walande, to abandon their tiny island home, now submerged by the…
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By John Potvin, Professor, Art and Design History, Concordia University
From the unstructured jacket that’s worn with ease to the social media frenzy garnered by red carpets, Giorgio Armani’s imprint can be seen in every corner of the fashion industry.
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By Mary Ellen O'Connell, Professor of Law and International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
The U.S. government is justifying its lethal destruction of a boat suspected of transporting illegal drugs in the Caribbean as an attack on “narco-terrorists.”
But as an expert on international law, I know that line of argument goes nowhere. Even if, as the U.S. claims, the 11 people killed in the Sept. 2, 2025, U.S. Naval strike were members…
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