By Sheikh Mehzabin Chitra
Lasting peace cannot be delivered from a distance. It must grow within communities themselves shaped by local realities, and supported by international partners willing to listen before they act.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has quashed a push by his Special Minister of State Don Farrell to increase the size of the federal parliament.
Albanese was blunt in response to questioning from Opposition Leader Angus Taylor asking him to rule out an expansion.
He told parliament he was satisfied with the current number of 150 members of the House of Representatives and 12 senators from each state. He was also “very satisfied” with the current composition of the parliament.
He added: “I have been very privileged to have the best campaign director I have ever…
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By Kerry Brown, Professor of Employment and Industry, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
The decision will go some way to improve pay equity for young adults. But it will not directly address some other issues of fairness in the workplace.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives to brief senators at the US Capitol, Washington DC, January 7, 2026. © 2026 Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Photo (Washington, DC) — The United States’ latest strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, which reportedly killed four people, highlights a sustained pattern of unlawful use of lethal force outside any context of armed conflict, amounting to extrajudicial executions, Human Rights Watch said today.The US Southern Command announced on March 25, 2026, that it had carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” against a boat it said…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Iranian security forces stand guard on top of an armored vehicle in Tehran on March 21, 2026. © 2026 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is conducting a campaign to recruit children as young as 12 to volunteer to become “homeland defending combatants,” Human Rights Watch said today. The military recruitment and use of children is a grave violation of children’s rights and a war crime when the children are under 15.On March 26, 2026, an official from the IRGC’s 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division in Tehran said that…
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Monday, March 30, 2026
A night of drone attacks reportedly killed two people and injured 12 in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, as a maternity hospital and three educational facilities were also damaged.
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By Shannon Bosch, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University
This development reverses decades of global movement towards abolition of the death penalty, while normalising executions in an occupied territory.
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By Nicola Welsh-Burke, Sessional Academic in Literary and Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University
Hans Christian Andersen published The Emperor’s New Clothes in 1837. How did his life as an outsider shape the meaning of this darkly prescient story?
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By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
eSafety is investigating Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube for “potential non-compliance”. But several questions about the ban remain unanswered.
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By Austin Haynes, PhD Candidate, School of Arts and Media, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Over 100 years after Pō Atarau was popularised, it’s on the soundtrack of Ryan Gosling’s blockbuster Project Hail Mary. But who was the remarkable woman behind it?
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