By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
The federal government has released an exposure draft of its long-promised digital duty of care.
The headline feature is an “off switch”. Social media platforms would have to ask users, through prompts that appear from time to time, whether they want to keep a personalised, algorithm-driven…
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By Beth Webster, Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
Can you imagine Australia without Medicare, the age pension, or with 50% tariffs on imported goods such as cars, clothes and shoes?
Institutions we take for granted now took many decades of agitating, fighting vested interests and staring down passive resistance to be created. This is the realpolitik of economics.
Economic reforms have changed…
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By Frank Bongiorno, Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
Grand Ambition: Paul Keating’s Global Vision for Australia is based on deep archival research – and author James Curran’s access to Keating, with his personal papers.
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By Kelly Haynes, Midwifery Lecturer, CQUniversity Australia
For some women, the birth of their baby is one of the happiest days of their lives. Others remember it as a frightening, overwhelming or deeply distressing experience. Around one in three women report their birth experience as traumatic.
Women can be traumatised during birth when there is a medical emergency such as a caesarean section, heavy bleeding, or a newborn baby needing intensive care.
But it’s not always the emergency itself that leaves a lasting impact. Women also experience trauma…
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By Linda Merewyn Lorenza, Senior lecturer, CQUniversity Australia
Robert Vanderburg, Academic and Lecturer , CQUniversity Australia
Economists say the theatre sector struggles from something called a ‘cost disease’. But what does that mean? And why is it so hard to fix?
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By Sébastien Caquard, Professor in Geography, Concordia University
The resolution, submitted by a group of African states, corrects 450 years of cartographic injustice by recognizing the distortions produced by the Mercator projection.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2026
A successful and lasting transition in Syria requires comprehensive accountability, inclusion and guarantees that violations will not be repeated, UN independent investigators told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to reports that journalist and human rights defender Kananelo Boloetse was abducted on 5 September from his home in Maseru, interrogated about his work, assaulted and threatened with death, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda, said: “The reported abduction and brutal assault of Kananelo Boloetse is deeply alarming […] The post Lesotho: Authorities must investigate reported abduction and assault of journalist Kananelo Boloetse appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Children, parents, and teachers shelter underground during an air raid alert amid traditional back-to-school celebrations in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 1, 2026. © 2026 Francisco Seco/AP Photo As schools in Ukraine opened for the new academic year on September 1, repeated air raid alerts in Kyiv and elsewhere have disrupted classes and sent children into shelters, sometimes for hours.On September 3, Olya’s daughter managed to complete just one lesson – math –before alerts sent her fourth-grade class into a cramped underground shelter.“The shelter is not equipped…
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By Harriet Earle, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, Sheffield Hallam University
Using needlework to construct personal stories and a tangible record of events in a form of comic strip has a long and storied history.
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