Monday, May 26, 2025
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for an immediate end to the daily killings and destruction in Ukraine, following a weekend of deadly attacks that left at least 14 civilians – including three children – dead and dozens more injured across the country.
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By Petra Molnar, Associate Director, Refugee Law Lab, York University, Canada
Visa revocations are becoming an increasingly weaponized part of the U.S. immigration system, and in education, international students are already vulnerable to uncertain futures.
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By Izabella Nantsou, Academic in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney
Four decades ago, amid a cost-of-living crisis, rising unemployment and stagnant wages, a unique partnership between artists and trade unions thrived.
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By Ruth Morgan, Associate Professor of History, Australian National University
Paul Hawken’s Carbon is about a decade in the making. Perhaps the book’s long gestation is why it feels so familiar,
Other recent carbon-centred works include ecologist Dag Olev Hessen’s The Many Lives of Carbon, astrobiologist Robert Hazen’s Symphony…
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By Jai Whelan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Population Health, University of Otago
The benefits of providing safe smoking kits include fewer people injecting and stronger connections with harm-reduction services and community groups.
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By Andrew Macintosh, Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University
Australia’s largest carbon market player, GreenCollar, has quit the federal government’s voluntary carbon neutral program, Climate Active. More than 100 companies have left the program in the past two years.
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By Andrew J. Martin, Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney
Oscar Yau, PhD Candidate, School of Education, UNSW Sydney
Paul Ginns, Associate Professor in Educational Psychology, University of Sydney
Rebecca J. Collie, Scientia Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney
A new international study confirms boys have more ‘academic buoyancy’ or resilience when it comes to common setbacks, such as a poor test result or heavy workloads.
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By Megan Willis, Associate Professor, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
Narcissism has become the armchair diagnosis of the decade. Social media is awash with people flinging the label around. Everyone’s ex seems to be a narcissist, some of our parents are under suspicion, and that office villain? They definitely tick the box, too.
The accuracy of these rampant diagnoses warrants scepticism. But the reality is narcissists do exist. At its extreme, narcissism is a rare mental health diagnosis, known as narcissistic personality disorder. But narcissism also describes a cluster of…
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By Krista Fisher, Research Fellow, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
Dan Lubman, Executive Clinical Director, Turning Point & Director of Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
Simon Rice, Associate Professor & Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health in Elite Sports, The University of Melbourne
Zac Seidler, Associate Professor, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
One in five men experience anxiety at some point in their life. Some don’t seek help until they’re in crisis and call an ambulance for help.
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By Amnesty International
Turkish authorities must immediately lift unlawful restrictions on the Saturday Mothers/People’s protest at Istanbul’s Galatasaray Square and allow them to gather there, said Amnesty International on the eve of the protest movement’s 30th anniversary. Amnesty International will join Saturday Mothers at a panel discussion on 27 May as the group mark three decades of […] The post Türkiye: Thirty years of struggle for justice as the Saturday Mothers mark a sombre anniversary appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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