By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Margaret Preston is a breathtaking exhibition. It is Preston as we have never seen her before, and challenges many earlier preconceptions.
We see her work in the context of her students/lovers, Bessie Gibson and Gladys Reynell, and her obsession with First Nations art – her adaptations, her collections, and, now, commentaries on her adaptations by Trevor Nickolls and Gordon Bennett, among others.
A much more complex and nuanced image of Preston emerges than in previous exhibitions.
The show is a mixture of a chronological…
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By Wes Hill, Associate Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, Southern Cross University
Jon Rafman is a master of turning the internet’s trash, excess and alienation into strangely seductive art.
Memento Hikikomori is his intoxicating mini-retrospective at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA).
It combines two ideas: memento mori, the reminder of our mortality, and hikikomori, the Japanese term associated with extreme social withdrawal.
The combination suits Rafman. His works repeatedly depict people retreating from the physical world into digital ones, finding traces of a questionable humanity behind the pixels.
Flâneur of the fringe…
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By Matthew Witt, Associate Professor, Natural Environment, University of Exeter
I spent six days on a small fishing boat in the middle of the English Channel in July trying to catch a thresher shark. The weather was fickle, even at the height of summer.
My colleague, ecologist Lucy Hawkes, and I were with two anglers who probably hold more experience of Channel thresher sharks than anyone alive. Between us, we caught nothing.
Fourteen trips later, after countless more hours at sea, the anglers caught a thresher shark and it was electronically tagged – a first in England and…
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By Amnesty International
This press release contains information that some readers may find upsetting Meta failed to address harmful rhetoric on Facebook against the LGBTI community in Hungary by ineffectively applying its own moderation policies, a new Amnesty International briefing shows. ‘It erodes my soul’: Meta’s contribution to anti-LGBTI discourse in Hungary, shows how Meta’s policy decisions, including […] The post Hungary: Meta failed to stop anti-LGBTI content on Facebook appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
My name is Adnan Barq. I’m 25 and I’m a Palestinian from the Old City of Jerusalem. I’m a journalist and also make films. The Durban Conference was happening when I was one year old. It’s fascinating to see how many people got together back then to try and shape justice in the world but, […] The post Durban Conference 25 years on. Adnan Barq: “The very fact of existing is a fight in itself” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
My name is Paul Divakar Namala. I am the Executive Director of The Inclusivity Project and Convenor of the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent. My work focuses on communities whose social status, occupations and exclusion are inherited across generations through caste, analogous hierarchies and systems rooted in traditional slavery. I am […] The post Durban Conference, 25 years on. Paul Divakar Namala: “Solidarity and resistance work in the long run” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Thomas Corbin, Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University
An AI system might generate the same words as a teacher but that doesn’t mean the educational interaction for the student is the same.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UAE's President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan during a work lunch as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 16, 2026. © Ammar Abd Rabbo-Pool/SIPA/2606161433 (Sipa via AP Images) (Berlin, September 8, 2026) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and other senior officials should publicly call out the United Arab Emirates’ human rights record and its role in regional conflicts when they meet President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Berlin on September 10, 2026, Human…
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By Patrick Finnerty, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Conservation and Wildlife Management, University of Sydney
David M Watson, Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
From poems to films and books of history, horses feature widely in Australian popular culture.
Feral horses, also known as brumbies, are descendants of domesticated horses that now live and breed independently in the wild. For some…
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By Sam Elliott, Associate Professor, Flinders' Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Flinders University
Amy Elizabeth Hardwick, Impact, Engagement and PCE Fellow, School of Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University
Amy Whitehead, Professor of Sport Psychology and Coaching, Liverpool John Moores University
Finals have arrived for many winter sports. For young athletes, that can mean excitement, bigger crowds and games that suddenly feel more important.
It can also change the atmosphere around the grounds, especially in older junior age groups.
We have researched adult sideline behaviour at junior sports. The young athletes are rarely the problem – parents, coaches and officials must create more supportive cultures to reduce inappropriate behaviour.
We researched sideline behaviour
Watch children playing sport at ages five or six and the message from adults…
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