By Hannah Frances Roux, Sessional Academic, University of Sydney
For Tolkien, any place can become “Mordor”, when the desire to benefit others turns into the will to dominate them.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An M23 fighter stands guard as people board a truck during an enrollment of civilians, police officers, and former Congolese army soldiers in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 23, 2025. © 2025 MICHEL LUNANGA/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Rwandan military forces and the M23 armed group carried out a campaign of forced recruitment and abusive detention of thousands of captured combatants and civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The 78-page report, “‘Death Was Everywhere’: Arbitrary Detention,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A Polish border guard stands near a barbed wire fence at the Polish-Belarusian border in Polowce, Poland, July 21, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski (Brussels) – The new European Union Migration and Asylum Pact ushers in sweeping changes that undermine the right to asylum, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch released a question-and-answer document that explains the key changes to EU asylum laws and procedures and the risks for people’s rights. The Pact, adopted in 2024, comes into full effect on June 12, 2026.“The new EU asylum pact, despite the…
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By Nick Fuller, Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney
If you follow child nutrition content on social media, you’re bound to be confused when it comes to giving your kids milk. Here’s what the evidence actually says.
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By Bruce M Smyth, Emeritus Professor of Family Studies, Australian National University; La Trobe University
One million children are meant to receive child support each year. Proposed changes will help them in some ways, but fall short of addressing big problems.
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By Michael Cain, Associate Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
In early June, an ABC Four Corners investigation into NSW Police showcased first-hand accounts of police using excessive force against the public.
These stories alleged an internal police culture that willingly covered up wrongdoing to evade accountability.
This is not a novel concept. The 1997 Wood Royal Commission revealed the same…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The NBA logo at center court. © 2020 Mark J. Terrill/AP Photo (Beirut) – The National Basketball Association (NBA) risks “sportswashing” the UAE’s egregious human rights record by expanding its financial partnership with its government, Human Rights Watch said today. The 2026 NBA Final series began on June 3, 2026, and is ongoing. The UAE hosts high-profile sporting, entertainment, and cultural events to promote a public image of openness that is at odds with the government’s efforts to prevent scrutiny of its rampant, systemic human rights violations…
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By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education, Charles Sturt University
As the world prepares for the 2026 FIFA World Cup – to be hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States throughout June and July – many sports fans have been looking back to 1994, the last time it was hosted in North America.
The 1994 World Cup was spectacular, chaotic and ultimately, a
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By Rebecca Davies, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
Deanne Fisher, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Swinburne University of Technology
At the start of cosmic history, galaxies were big clouds of gas, and they grew by turning that gas into stars. If a galaxy runs out of gas, it will stop forming stars and die.
Present-day galaxies have had more than 10 billion years to grow old and die. But this is not true in the early universe: we expect to see very few dead galaxies in the first billion years of cosmic time.
In 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope gave us our first clear glimpse of galaxies in the early universe. What we saw completely defied our expectations: there were too many big, dead galaxies,…
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By Timothy Graham, Associate Professor in Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology
Ella Chorazy, Senior Research Associate, Queensland University of Technology
Stephen Harrington, Associate Professor, School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being made on well-timed oil bets occurring just before Trump posts. But can we call it insider trading?
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