By Kevin John Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
Sharon Kernot knows how to make a pressing, potent, aching song from a stanza of free verse lines – and how to make a page of poetry talk its way into your head.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Bangladesh military and Rapid Action Battalion personnel stand guard outside the Supreme Court in Dhaka, February 8, 2025. © 2025 Suvra Kanti Das/Abaca/Sipa via AP Photo (London) – The Bangladeshi authorities should immediately comply with a July 12, 2026 court order to investigate the alleged disappearance of 30-year-old Miraj Sheikh, who was last seen in the custody of the Coast Guard, in what appears to be the first known enforced disappearance case in two years, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should also reverse its decision to scrap reforms aimed…
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By Dat Tien Doan, Senior Lecturer in Built Environment Engineering, Auckland University of Technology
Ali Ghaffarian Hoseini, Professor in Design and Creative Technologies, Auckland University of Technology
Esther Aigwi, Senior Lecturer in Engineering, Auckland University of Technology
Franklin Nkado, Researcher in Engineering, Auckland University of Technology
Both major parties want to boost household solar. But new research suggests wider uptake also depends on policy certainty, design and long-term returns.
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By Yolaine Frossard de Saugy, Postdoctoral research fellow, African Studies Program, McGill University
If political agendas hijack the global HIV/AIDs response, it will devastate the 40 million people living with the disease worldwide, especially the most marginalized.
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By Ben Wellings, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
When Andy Burnham is handed the keys to 10 Downing Street on Monday, the United Kingdom will have its seventh prime minister in the ten years since it voted to leave the European Union.
It begs the question: what is it about the UK that makes governing it so difficult at this point in time?
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, a large part of the answer is Brexit. But Brexit only expressed and exacerbated some of the structural problems the UK still faces today: cynicism, pessimism and political…
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By Barbara Mintzes, Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
Ashleigh Hooimeyer, Associate Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
Kellia Chiu, Associate Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
International drug companies are threatening to remove medicines from the market if Australia doesn’t offer them a better price. Here’s what’s at stake.
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By Libby (Elizabeth) Sander, MBA Director & Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
A mix of work-from-home flexibility, with two to three days in the office, appears to be the sweet spot for looking after both employers’ and employees’ needs.
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By Seyedali Mirjalili, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Business and Hospitality, Torrens University Australia
Australia’s first AI traffic-light trial could cut delays. It also raises hard questions about fairness, safety and who gets priority on public roads.
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By Sally Patfield, Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
Leanne Fray, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
When public schools are unable to offer advanced subjects, students who had planned to go to uni give up hope.
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By Michael B. Charles, Associate Professor, Management Discipline, Faculty of Business, Arts and Law, Southern Cross University
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Macquarie University
Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied to Byzantine (Eastern Roman) incendiary weapons famously used in naval combat in the Eastern Mediterranean from around 673 CE to at least the 1180s.
So secret was the recipe for Greek fire that it died with the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in May 1453.
Since then, many alchemists, historians, chemists and experimental archaeologists have…
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