By Joshua Pate, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
Bruno Tirotti Saragiotto, Associate Professor and Head of Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
Mark Overton, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
Many of us grew up hearing that crossing our legs was bad for our bodies. The research tells a less dramatic story.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Soldiers of the Sudanese Armed Forces walk on the Shambat Bridge in Khartoum, April 27, 2025. © 2025 Photo by Giles Clarke/Avaaz via Getty Images Forces affiliated with the Sudanese Armed Forces have arbitrarily detained, tortured, and otherwise ill-treated civilians in areas under their control, and denied them due process rights.The military has led a campaign of fear and retaliation against people they label collaborators, because of their ethnic identity, humanitarian work, or political affiliation or for having lived under the Rapid Support Forces’ control.The…
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By Kirsten Matoy Carlson, Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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By Lisa-ann Gershwin, Research Scientist in Marine Biology, University of Tasmania
On a calm summer morning in southern Australia, the water can look deceptively clear, until you see thousands of gelatinous shapes washing ashore.
In January, thousands of pink lion’s mane jellyfish washed into Port Phillip Bay, prompting beach warnings and startling swimmers more accustomed to cold water than the shock of stinging tentacles.
The same month, unusually high numbers of moon jellyfish were reported…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney, Australia, on June 9, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File On April 7, Australian police arrested Ben Roberts-Smith, a decorated Australian soldier who stands accused of committing five counts of war crimes in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012. Many of the details of Roberts-Smith’s alleged crimes were made public when he sued media outlets that had first reported on the allegations. He lost the defamation case. For victims of abuses in Afghanistan, this is a long-awaited but…
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By Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay
Interview with former Awami League Home Secretary Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who is currently exiled in India, on the recent Bangladesh general election, and the Awami League leadership’s ongoing legal challenges.
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By Kate Congreves, Associate Professor, Jarislowsky & BMO Research Chair in Regenerative Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan
Regenerative agriculture began as a grassroots movement led by farmers. It has been described in many different ways, but a common thread is a set of values.
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By Mark Alfano, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University
Michał Klincewicz, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Cognitive Science, Tilburg University
In early March, a week after the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the White House posted a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular movies, television series, video games and anime.
Iran and its sympathisers responded to the strikes by flooding social media with outdated war footage allegedly…
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By Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
Ray Wills, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia
The government’s response to the fuel crisis has been to reassure us normality will resume. Amid global uncertainty, that’s not enough.
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By Carolyn Heward, Senior lecturer, Clinical Psychology, James Cook University
The safeguards in place to protect research integrity are not keeping pace with the tools that can be used to circumvent them.
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