By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Former Nationals’ leader Michael McCormack has been brought back onto the frontbench as the opposition unveiled yet another reshuffle, this one triggered by the elevation of Matt Canavan to become Nationals leader.
McCormack will be shadow minister for water and shadow minister for veterans’ affairs. The water post will give him a leading role in the Farrer byelection, where water is a major issue in the agricultural areas of the electorate.
McCormack is member for the seat of Riverina, which borders Farrer. He held various portfolios in the Coalition government and was…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Ahead of the May 9 by-election, hear from candidates and locals about the early frontrunners to win Farrer – long held by former Liberal leader Sussan Ley.
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By Abdoulaye Ndiaye, ensiengnant-chercheur, New York University
The lessons learned from this crisis must extend beyond Senegal and lead to greater debt transparency and banking supervision in the region.
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By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
After years of complaints, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has finally placed restrictions on the program and its host network.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Venezuelans and Salvadorans nationals deported from the United States are transferred to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT) in San Salvador, El Salvador, on March 31, 2025. © 2025 El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images (Washington) – El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States, Human Rights Watch said today, one year after some of the men were sent to El Salvador.The detained people are among more than 9,000 Salvadorans deported by the United States since the start…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's minister for climate change, speaks outside the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change, July 23, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2025 AP Photo/Peter Dejong The world’s highest court has spoken: tackling climate change is not a choice: it’s a legal obligation. Now it’s up to the United Nations General Assembly to speak up and urge its 193 member countries to take action.Millions of people around the world have already lost their homes, livelihoods,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Ministry of Petroleum and Mining in Juba, South Sudan, November 7, 2012. © 2012 Reuters/Adriane Ohanesian In a wave of arrests that began on February 24, South Sudanese authorities have detained at least six current and former officials linked to the country’s oil and financial sectors.While authorities have yet to publicly clarify if charges have been brought, Minister for Information Ateny Wek Ateny told media that the arrests were not political and that a committee was investigating “financial malpractices.”However, previous high-profile detentions…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human Rights Watch Director of the Disability Rights Division, Elizabeth Kamundia (left), and Marco Bristo Fellow for Courageous Leadership in Disability Rights, Hilda Macheso (center), interview people in Malawi, October 2025. © 2025 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch It is a hot afternoon in a rural district in Malawi. People gather around a tent set up at the Local Trading Center, eager to witness a community outreach program that aims to combat rising violence against people with albinism.The organizers passionately encourage greater understanding of albinism and…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Waorani Indigenous leaders protest in front of the Constitutional Court in Quito, Ecuador on August 20, 2025, two years after an Indigenous-led referendum to halt exploitation of an oil block in Yasuni National Park, the ancestral home of the Waorani people. © 2025 RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images Ecuador is failing to comply with key provisions of an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling to protect the Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous peoples from nearby oil facilities in Yasuní National Park.The court ruled that oil extraction generated environmental…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Tarique Rahman takes the oath of office as Prime Minister of Bangladesh at the National Parliament in Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 17, 2026. © AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu (London) – Bangladesh’s recently elected prime minister, Tarique Rahman, and his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government face many urgent challenges but can use this opportunity to bring lasting protections of human rights, nine rights groups wrote in a letter to Rahman published today.Prime Minister Rahman came to office following a landslide election victory in February 2026. The election…
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