By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Greens’ internal crisis has escalated dramatically, with Leader David Shoebridge and Jordon Steele-John at odds over whether the embattled senator should, or agreed to, take leave while allegations against him are investigated.
Last week, after a letter from several (non-parliamentary) Greens members about the Western Australian Senator Jordon Steele-John’s alleged inappropriate behaviour towards women, Shoebridge said the WA Greens were conducting an investigation and the senator was taking leave from the party room.
But Steele-John, in a 2450…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Robert McClelland, who is currently deputy chief justice of the Federal Circuit and Family Court, replaces Paul Brereton at the top of the commission.
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By Bruce Wolpe, Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney
Donald Trump has repeatedly promised oil prices will “drop like a rock”. The opposite has happened, and Americans will likely punish his party at the midterms.
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By Susan Grantham, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Griffith University
The prime minister’s social media presence has landed him in hot water both on and offline this year. He’s discovering visibility is not the same as credibility.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Screenshot of a video posted online and analyzed by Human Rights Watch showing the destruction of a health center following an apparent Malian military drone strike in Talahandak village in the northern Kidal region, Mali, on July 29, 2026. © Private Malian armed forces and their allies have since July 2026 responded to mounting attacks by Islamist and separatist armed groups with abusive counterinsurgency operations in central and northern Mali.The Malian military, armed groups, and insurgent forces are committing grave laws-of-war violations while international…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Vietnam’s leader To Lam meeting President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during United Nations General Assembly meetings, September 24, 2024. © 2024 Pool Union Europe/Agence Hans Lucas via Reuters (Brussels) – Leaders of the European Union, Belgium, and Denmark should urge Vietnam to make concrete progress in improving its human rights record during Vietnamese President To Lam’s visit to Copenhagen and Brussels the week of October 19-24, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.Human Rights Watch wrote to the prime ministers of Denmark and Belgium and,…
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By Daria Dergacheva
“Our idea is not simply to collect complaints, but to transform individual students’ experiences into evidence that can be used for advocacy and for creating change.”
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By Amnesty International
Kenyan authorities have increasingly used authoritarian tactics, including arbitrary arrests and detention, abductions, malicious prosecution of protesters, surveillance, and media repression, to crack down on protests against deepening economic hardship and the government’s aggressive fiscal policies, Amnesty International said in a new report today. The report, “Human Rights Under Siege: Unpacking Authoritarian Practices in an […] The post Kenya: Authorities must address economic grievances driving protests, end repressive tactics appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Peter McPhee, Emeritus professor, History, The University of Melbourne
What started as protests about conditions in French schools has widened into riots about cost of living – and taken hold in other European countries, too.
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By David Simes, Teaching Assistant and Researcher, Te Whare Ngangahau – Theatre and Performance Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
After God, now playing at Circa Theatre, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, follows Stuart McKenzie’s quest to grapple with questions of faith and certainty
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