Thursday, February 26, 2026
Nearly three years of war in Sudan have been marked by killings, rape and other violations, with risk of genocidal violence spreading, the UN Human Rights Council heard on Thursday.
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By Guy Bate, Professional Teaching Fellow, Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Rhiannon Lloyd, Senior Lecturer, Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
When new technology can produce the texts companies or departments use to explain themselves, core values can shift incrementally without anyone really noticing.
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By Rodney Taveira, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Sydney
Ava Kalinauskas, Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Emirati Princess Al Qasimi is pro-Palestine and this year’s Sydney Biennale arts director, a choice that has drawn criticism. But should art be comfortable?
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By Carolina Quintero Rodriguez, Senior Lecturer and Program Manager, Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise) program, RMIT University
You pull on your rain jacket, step out into the storm, and within half an hour your undershirt is soaked. The jacket you purchased as “waterproof” seems to have stopped working, and all the marketing claims feel a bit suspect.
In reality, the jacket probably hasn’t failed overnight: a mix of how it’s built, the exact level of water protection it offers, and years of sweat, skin oil and dirt have all played a part.
But there are a few simple ways you can care for your rain jacket to ensure you…
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Thursday, February 26, 2026
The UN rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday highlighted the “human-made disaster” across the Occupied Palestinian Territory stemming from Israel’s disregard for human rights norms and serious violations also committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Children watch news reports about the situation along the Thai-Cambodian border, in Sisaket province in northeastern Thailand, July 27, 2025. © 2025 loy Phutpheng/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo A Cambodian government-controlled court sentenced two journalists to fourteen years in prison for treason after they appeared in a photograph with Cambodian soldiers near the disputed Thai-Cambodian border.The journalists, Phorn Sopheap of the Battambang Post TV Online and Pheap Pheara of TSP 68 TV Online, were arrested last July and charged with “supplying a foreign state…
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By Pandanus Petter, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
Cosmo Howard, Associate Professor School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
Juliet Pietsch, Professor of Political Science, Griffith University
The assumption that Australian values are coherent is flawed, and the same flawed assumption is often projected onto other countries.
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By Song Shi, Associate Professor, Property Economics, University of Technology Sydney
In the first study of its kind, researchers matched more than 1,500 Sydney house sales with data on nearly 50,000 public trees. They found location is crucial.
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By Sara Fazeli, PhD Candidate, UNSW Sydney
Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Moe Mohammad Mojtahedi, Senior lecturer, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
Taha Hossein Rashidi, Professor of Transport Engineering, UNSW Sydney
Survivor accounts reveal how quickly evacuation routes become fatal, and why the danger of getting behind the wheel is often underestimated.
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By Jason M. Lodge, Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
It it time to get rid of group assignments at university? Federal Opposition education spokesperson Julian Leeser thinks so. On Thursday, he called for universities to drop group assessments entirely, arguing they are fundamentally “unfair” and “cheapen” degrees.
In a speech to the Universities Australia conference in Canberra, Leeser said:
Students feel, instinctively, that in many cases it is deeply unfair to assess them individually based on others’ work.
His logic is one many students will find familiar: one person inevitably…
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