By Barry Barton, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
New Zealand needs a legal arrangement that allows carbon capture and storage technologies to evolve without being a mere offshoot of the oil and gas industry.
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By Sue Hand, Professor Emeritus, Palaeontology, UNSW Sydney
Camilo López-Aguirre, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Laura A. B. Wilson, ARC Future Fellow, Head of Biological Anthropology, Australian National University
Robin Beck, Lecturer in Biology, University of Salford
A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence might support it.
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By Mary Anne Kenny, Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
When refugees flee their home country due to war, violence, conflict or persecution, they are often forced to leave behind their families.
For more than 30,000 people who have sought asylum in Australia since arriving more than a decade ago, that separation has stretched into more than a decade. This group of people – known in policy circles as “the legacy caseload” – need a clear pathway to reunite with family members.
Refugees separated from family are plagued by
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By Hannah Pitt, Senior Research Fellow – Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University
Grace Arnot, Public Health Researcher, Deakin University
Samantha Thomas, Professor of Public Health, Deakin University
Simone McCarthy, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Commercial Determinants of Health, Deakin University
As gambling companies increasingly target young people, many are becoming frustrated by a lack of government action to protect them from gambling harms.
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By Tegan Cohen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Political parties are exempt from many of the regulations about spam and unsolicited marketing – and it’s unlikely to change.
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By Paul Crosby, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
Jordi McKenzie, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
This research suggests people may not be as bothered by the use of AI in filmmaking as you might expect.
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By Fiona MacDonald, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Northern British Columbia
Jeanette Ashe, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King's College London
The Liberals helmed by Mark Carney have felled yet another Conservative opponent amid continuing threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to make Canada a 51st American state.
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By Katerina Sviderska, PhD Candidate in Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
Leandre Benoit, PhD Candidate in Politics, University of Oxford
From defence to trade and climate, Canada and the European Union share deep economic and strategic ties. What does Mark Carney’s victory mean for Canada-EU relationship?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypydaw, Myanmar, April 7, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo (Bangkok) – The Myanmar military junta’s years of unlawful attacks on healthcare facilities and health workers have severely hindered the emergency response to the devastating earthquake on March 28, 2025, Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights said today. A month after the earthquake, the junta has continued to obstruct access to lifesaving services in opposition-held areas and during military operations.The…
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By Amnesty International
The Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful trends already present, gutting international human rights protections and endangering billions across the planet, Amnesty International warned today upon launching its annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights. This “Trump effect” has compounded the damage done by other world leaders throughout 2024, eating away at […] The post Amnesty International warns of global human rights crisis as ‘Trump effect’ accelerates destructive trends appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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