By Philippe Le Billon, Professor, Geography Department and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
Zelda Ladefoged, Master's Student, Geography, University of British Columbia
The High Seas Treaty requires a secretariat to co-ordinate between parties, service meetings, manage information and keep the machinery running.
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By Gehan Gunasekara, Professor of Commercial Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
New US requirements for visa-free travel could involve sharing large amounts of biometric and law enforcement data, prompting concerns about privacy.
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By Susan Hutchinson, PhD Candidate, International Relations, Australian National University
In 2024, the Taliban government in Kabul wrote to the Australian government to request the Afghan embassy in Canberra be closed.
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By Carolina Rossini, Professor of Practice and Director for Program, Public Interest Technology Initiative, UMass Amherst
The verdicts in a case against Meta and another against Meta and Google have the potential to change how social media works – and it has little to do with financial penalties.
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By Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
Fuel theft has risen up to 30% nationally since the start of the Middle East war. Here’s what can push it higher, how common it is – and what to do if you spot it.
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By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
The system is now twice the size it was when it reached far north Queensland, 5,700km and one week ago.
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By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
Emily Burch, Accredited Practising Dietitian and Lecturer, Southern Cross University
Dark chocolate has a reputation for being healthier, but is that true? Here’s how to choose between dark and milk chocolate this Easter.
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By Damien O'Meara, Lecturer, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
When Darcy returns home in this new SBS series, he realises there’s another presence in his childhood home: a ghost of his younger pre-transition self, Dee.
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
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The five-day deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz handed to Iran by Donald Trump on Monday expires some time tomorrow and the Islamic Republic needs to “get serious before it is too late” – or so the US president has announced on his TruthSocial platform.
You’ll recall that…
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By Quynh Hoang, Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption, Department of Marketing and Strategy, University of Leicester
A Los Angeles jury has delivered a landmark verdict: Meta and YouTube were negligent in the design and operation of their platforms, causing a young woman known in court documents as Kaley, or KGM, to become addicted to social media.
The tech giants must now pay her a total of US$6 million in damages – $3 million compensatory and $3 million punitive.
She claimed the platforms’ design features got her addicted to the technology and…
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