By Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University
In a time of global crisis, the strategy fails to tackle the thorniest of issues – including Trump’s America – with much clarity.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
An effective opposition is good at policy. At present the Liberals new immigration policy leaves the public in the dark on detail.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The war in Iran has become the third major economic crisis in the last 20 years, with fuel prices jumping and inflation…
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By Michael Toomey, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Glasgow
Magyar wants to restore a friendly relationship with the EU, but the reset will face sizeable tests over the years ahead.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image (Johannesburg) – Zambia should provide accountability for its failure to clean up a contaminated mine site that is responsible for the ongoing lead poisoning of children, Human Rights Watch said today in supporting a request for African Union action to require the government and others involved to clean up the site.The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), together with Zambian nongovernmental organizations, and affected families filed a complaint to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC). The complaint…
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By Brian Oliver, Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Peter J. Irga, Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Air and Noise Pollution, University of Technology Sydney
The blaze at the Geelong oil refinery in Victoria has reportedly been extinguished. But residents in the area may be worried about the health effects of lingering smoke.
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By Tony Wood, Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
Late on Wednesday, Victorian firefighters were called to a large fire at Viva Energy Group’s oil refinery in Corio, a suburb of Geelong. The blaze is believed to have been an equipment failure. Thankfully, no-one was injured.
Viva is one of two refineries left in Australia, and supplies more than 50%…
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By Stephanie Wescott, Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences, Monash University
Naomi Pfitzner, Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Hub and Senior Lecturer in Criminology Monash University, Monash University
Sarah McCook, Research Fellow, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Monash University
Steven Roberts, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
In a cabinet reshuffle, Paul Edbrooke has been appointed Victoria’s first minister for Men and boys. Academic evidence gives him some clear policy priorities.
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By Daria Dergacheva
Generative AI does not write, design or paint: it generates statistically closest patterns; these are probabilistic automation systems, which make them fundamentally different from human cognition or creativity.
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By Symon Braun Freck, PhD Candidate, School of Engineering, DeathTech Research Team, The University of Melbourne
This week, Nicole Kidman revealed she is training to become a death doula. She told an audience at the University of San Francisco it “may sound a little weird”, but she was inspired after her mother died in 2024.
Observing how her family wasn’t able to provide the support they hoped they could, Kidman wished there were “people in the world that were there to sit impartially and just provide solace and care”. This is how she came to explore the field of death doulaship.
The…
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