By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Liberal frontbencher and leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie has launched an extraordinary attack on One Nation’s Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce, calling them “lying cowards”.
Hastie said Hanson and Joyce “are trashing my service record, they called me a traitor to my own country”.
One of Hanson’s Please Explain animated cartoons, from July and titled “Don’t be Hastie”, is at the centre of Hastie’s latest attack on One Nation, which has been targeting him and his seat of Canning in Western Australia. One Nation recently won a state seat, Secret Harbour, that is largely…
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By Björn Lundberg, Researcher in History, Lund University
For decades, Sweden has fostered a self-image as something of a world record-holder for peace, celebrating more than two centuries since it was last at war. But this record involves some creative accounting. The narrative, for example, excludes Sweden’s participation in modern-day military operations in Afghanistan and Libya.
Nor has Swedish “peacefulness” been entirely pacifist. The country operated one of the world’s largest…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Israelis look at the border with Lebanon from a position in the northern village of Metula on March 5, 2026, after Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel during the ongoing conflict. © March 2026 Amir Levy/Getty Images (Beirut, September 9, 2026) – Hezbollah unlawfully fired widely banned cluster munitions into a town in northern Israel on March 4, 2026, and again on March 15, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks, neither of which caused civilian casualties, took place during a major escalation in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah beginning…
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By Justin Ellis, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Newcastle
A Victorian parliamentary inquiry has examined anti-LGBTQIA+ attacks facilitated online and through dating apps. Here’s what can be done to keep people safe.
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By Jordan Roods, PhD candidate in Sustainability, University of Technology Sydney
Kerry Tozer, PhD candidate in Sustainability, University of Technology Sydney
For millennia, farmers relied on human urine for its vital plant nutrients. As synthetic fertilisers get more expensive, is it time to give pee a chance?
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By Melissa Wong, Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Yuvisthi Naidoo, Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
New research reveals how the visa someone arrives on shapes whether their first ten years are secure or spent in poverty.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
We see it often: political players insisting what’s good for the goose shouldn’t apply to the gander.
Back in the Morrison days, Labor relentlessly pursued then sports minister Bridget McKenzie over grants found by an audit to be politically skewed. Eventually McKenzie was forced to quit cabinet – on the grounds she had undeclared membership of gun organisations.
Now the tables have been turned. A report from the independent…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Farmers walk past an alleged Eritrean army tank abandoned in Dansa, southwest of Mekele in Tigray region, Ethiopia, June 20, 2021. © 2021 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Barely a week after African leaders met in Luanda, Angola to strengthen the African Union’s conflict prevention capacity, escalating tensions in northern Ethiopia are testing whether the AU can turn early warning into action.Tensions between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the Tigray region’s main political party, have grown for over a year…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A white phosphorus munition airbursts over buildings in the town of Khiam in southern Lebanon during an Israeli bombardment on October 31, 2024. © 2024 AFP via Getty Images Recent use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in Lebanon underscores the need for new international law to regulate these devastating weapons.White phosphorus munitions can inflict excruciating burns and cause lifelong physical, psychological, and socioeconomic harm.Countries should condemn ongoing use of white phosphorus munitions, call for further international talks on the matter,…
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By Daniel Binns, Senior Lecturer, Media & Communication, RMIT University
One of Prime’s greatest hits this year has been the teen romance series Off Campus. The show follows hockey player Garrett and musician Hannah as they try to reconcile sex, adulthood, college life, and their feelings for each other.
The show makes use of a split screen on various occasions, such as when it simultaneously shows Garrett training and Hannah dancing, or both of them having a phone conversation.
In its simplest form,…
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