By Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University
Even though the deployment is defensive in nature, it could still be seen by Iran as support for the US-Israeli air offensive.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Nationals leader David Littleproud has unexpectedly quit his post, declaring he is “buggered” and “out on my feet”.
His announcement came as a shock to colleagues and follows a period of extreme turbulence for his party and the Coalition, which split twice during this term.
Littleproud has been a controversial and, in terms of Coalition relations, provocative, leader. Although the Nationals held their lower house seats at the election, since then two of their high profile MPs have defected. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price went to the Liberals immediately after the election, and…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image SAPES Trust director Ibbo Mandaza (L) listens to Jacob Ngarivhume (C) and Tendai Biti (R) speaking to the media at the Trust in Harare, Zimbabwe on October 28, 2025. © 2025 Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) - Authorities in Zimbabwe have intensified their crackdown against critics of an effort by the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party to push forward a constitutional amendment to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term of office, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposed amendment has attracted…
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By Bronwyn Lea, Associate Professor in Australian Literature and Writing, The University of Queensland
Are judges of literary awards and fellowships now being asked to assess not just the work, but the writer too?
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By Giselle Woodley, Lecturer and Research Fellow in Communications and Sexologist, Edith Cowan University
Megan Lim, Head of Young People's Health Research, Burnet Institute
New rules aimed at protecting kids online are now in force, but a major porn company has all but shut down its Australian presence instead.
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By Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University
Even though the deployment is defensive in nature, it could still be seen by Iran as support for the US-Israeli air offensive.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Reserve Bank’s Andrew Hauser told The Conversation’s podcast inflation is likely to be higher than projected before the war in the Middle East broke out.
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By Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Professor of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
Oil is a key feedstock for everything from plastics to cosmetics. Over time, we’re likely to see less oil burned for transport – and more used to make products.
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By Human Rights Watch
.paragraph--id--11756 .pb-video { padding-bottom: 73.25%; } Click to expand Image People look out at a street in the Simon-Pele neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 22, 2025. © 2025 Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo (Washington, DC) – Haitian security forces and private contractors working with them have conducted extensive and apparently unlawful lethal drone strikes, Human Rights Watch said today. The strikes, at least some of which appear to be deliberate extrajudicial killings, have been carried out with quadcopter drones armed with explosives in densely populated urban…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Screenshot of a video shared online on January 29 and geolocated by Human Rights Watch showing at least 11 tank trucks burnt or still in flames on the road about seven kilometers south of Ambidédi village. Source: https://x.com/SalahMo73628462/status/2016965739027017797 (Nairobi) – An Al-Qaeda-linked armed group summarily executed ten long-haul truck drivers and two teenage apprentices in late January 2026 in southwestern Mali, Human Rights Watch said today. The killings, in an attack on a fuel convoy, are apparent war crimes.On January 29, the Group for the…
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