By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A supporter lights candles in commemoration of HIV/AIDS victims in the Philippines at a ceremony in Quezon City, Metro Manila, May 14, 2016. © 2016 Reuters (New York) – Major donor nations dealt a devastating blow to the right to health for millions of people worldwide when they cut support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Human Rights Watch said today. Only US$11.85 billion has so far been pledged for 2026-2028 of an urgently needed US$18 billion. All but one of the 10 leading donors reduced their pledges.“People will die because of donor…
(Full Story)
|
By Linda Botterill, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Most coalitions are marriages of convenience for power, but the Liberal National arrangement continued even in opposition. Some time apart may be beneficial for all.
(Full Story)
|
By Erin Brannigan, Associate Professor, Theatre and Performance, UNSW Sydney
Of all the arts, dance has a special capacity to create worlds. Centred around the moving body, these worlds draw on other art forms – music, visual art, design, projection – to fill-out visions in time-space.
Dance at this year’s Sydney Festival ranged from a 20 minute, salon-style performance for two dancers, to an outdoor, multimedia, participatory sunset event with Sydney Harbour as a backdrop.
Garrigarrang Badu
Jannawi Dance Clan’s premiere of Garrigarrang Badu by Peta Strachan is the perfect work to orient audiences to the Dharug Country at the heart of Sydney…
(Full Story)
|
By Eric Van Rythoven, Instructor in Political Science, Carleton University
Looking at headlines around the world, it seemed like United States President Donald Trump’s annexation of Greenland was imminent. Buoyed by the success of his military operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric and threatened tariffs on any nation that opposed him.
Adding insult to injury,…
(Full Story)
|
By Shannon Brincat, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, created global headlines for his criticism of US President Donald Trump and his frank admission the rules-based international order is undergoing a “rupture, not a transition”.
Carney also called on middle powers like Canada (and while he did not say so specifically, Australia) to band together to fight for their own interests:
[…]the…
(Full Story)
|
By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
In a rambling speech, the US president appears to be cooling on his bid to buy Greenland, but still had plenty of fire for a lot of people.
(Full Story)
|
By Craig Stevens, Professor in Ocean Physics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
Christina Hulbe, Professor and Dean of the School of Surveying (glaciology specialisation), University of Otago
Yingpu Xiahou, PhD Candidate in Physical Oceanography, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ecosystems – and even our weather.
(Full Story)
|
By Stewart Prest, Lecturer, Political Science, University of British Columbia
Mark Carney clearly hopes a new global world order may emerge that’s not only more resilient to diverse and unpredictable threats, but is more honest and just.
(Full Story)
|
By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Liberal-National Coalition is over for the second time in less than 12 months, this time over hate crimes legislation.
(Full Story)
|
By Zena Assaad, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Australian National University
The United States is set to become “the world’s undisputed [artificial intelligence-enabled] fighting force”.
At least that’s the view of the country’s Department of War, which earlier this month released a new strategy to accelerate the deployment of AI for military purposes.
The “AI Acceleration Strategy” sets an unambiguous objective of setting up the US military as the frontrunner in AI warfighting.…
(Full Story)
|