By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Liberals are set to dump net zero with a strong majority of the party room speaking out against the policy.
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By Amnesty International
Fossil fuel infrastructure poses risks for the health and livelihoods of at least 2 billion people globally, roughly a quarter of the world’s population, Amnesty International and Better Planet Laboratory said in a new report on the fossil fuel industry’s harms to climate, people and ecosystems across the world. The report, Extraction Extinction: Why the lifecycle of […] The post Global: Fossil fuel infrastructure is putting rights of 2 billion people and critical ecosystems at risk appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
A Venezuelan migrant allegedly linked to criminal organizations sits inside a cell at CECOT on March 16, 2025, in Tecoluca, El Salvador. © 2025 Salvadoran Government via Getty Images The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.The cases of torture and ill-treatment of Venezuelans in El Salvador were not isolated incidents by rogue guards or riot police, but rather systematic violations.The Trump administration is complicit in torture, enforced disappearance, and other grave violations,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Roger Lumbala Tshitenga, a former Congolese rebel leader and government minister, in Kampala, Uganda, February 6, 2013. © 2013 Isaac Kasamani/AFP via Getty Images The trial of Roger Lumbala Tshitenga, a former rebel leader and former minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo, begins on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, before the Paris Criminal Court. Lumbala is charged with crimes against humanity allegedly committed in North Kivu and Ituri provinces between 2002 and 2003, including summary executions, torture and other inhuman treatment, rape, pillages, and…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A desk bearing signs of shelling in a school where displaced people were sheltering, in El Fasher, Sudan, October 7, 2025. © 2025 Mohyaldeen M Abdallah/Reuters Following an appeal by 49 rights groups, a cross-regional group of states requested an urgent United Nations Human Rights Council session on atrocities in North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher, in Sudan.The session, planned for November 14, follows reports and images of mass atrocities by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is battling the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)following the takeover of El Fasher on…
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By Laura Nicole Driessen, Postdoctoral Researcher in Radio Astronomy, University of Sydney
Over the past few days an active sunspot has erupted multiple times, sending clouds of high-energy plasma into space. The sunspot happens to be facing Earth just now, so the plasma clouds are heading in our direction.
At about 0200 UTC (that’s 1pm AEDT) on November 12, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and
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By Fareed Khan
Afghan refugees in Pakistan face forced repatriation amidst stricter measures. Najeebullah Khitab, a singer raised in Pakistan, prepares to leave, carrying memories and dreams to his homeland that forbids music.
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By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
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By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher and Sustainable Future Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Greg Morrison, Professor, Director of the Urban Transformations Research Centre, Lang Walker Endowed Chair in Urban Transformation, Western Sydney University
Steel is an increasingly common material in Australian houses. But it’s also hugely emissions-intensive to make. Shifting to green production could help.
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By Caitlin McGee, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Gordon Noble, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Our proposed build-to-rent-to-own model would mean residents could buy a stake in the development they live in – without a deposit or bank loan.
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