By Kara Dadswell, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Victoria University
Clare Hanlon,
Stefan Sambol, Research Fellow (Psychology), Victoria University
Most kids associate sports coaches with men, but they should be coached by women as well. There’s no quick fix to change attitudes and address biases, though.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image In this Aug. 25, 2016 file photo, human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor speaks to Associated Press journalists in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. © 2016 AP Photo/Jon Gambrell (Beirut) – Emirati authorities are holding an unfair mass trial that has raised serious due process concerns, Human Rights Watch said today. The trial includes many defendants held in prolonged solitary confinement, which may amount to torture. In December 2023, while hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), Emirati authorities brought charges against at least 84 defendants in retaliation…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak © 2022 Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak/Facebook (Nairobi) – The reappearance in a South Sudan court of a former refugee who had been forcibly disappeared more than a year ago points up the urgent need to reform the National Security Service (NSS), Human Rights Watch said today. South Sudan authorities should urgently put an end to the agency’s arbitrary arrests and detentions of critics, activists and members of civil society, some of which constitute enforced disappearances, a sign of troubling regression in the country’s human rights landscape.…
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By Maheen Waheed
Former Pakistan Prime Minister and jailed politician Imran Khan's recent tweet has stirred significant controversy on social media, sparking debates and speculation about his and his party's political future.
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By Natali Pearson, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
Martin Polkinghorne, Associate Professor in Archaeology, Flinders University
Nia Naelul Hasanah Ridwan, Maritime-Underwater Archaeologist and PhD Candidate on Archaeology (Humanities), Flinders University
Zainab Tahir, Marine Heritage Analyst and PhD Candidate, Flinders University
A lot of the recent talk about maritime issues in Southeast Asia has focused on issues such as security, the Blue Economy, law enforcement and climate change. But there’s one maritime challenge that’s gone underdiscussed: underwater heritage.
We are co-investigators on a research project called Reuniting…
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By Hendri Yulius Wijaya, PhD Student in Political Science (Joint Supervision with Business School), The University of Melbourne
Kate Macdonald, Associate Professor, Political Science, The University of Melbourne
Sustainability reporting isn’t about producing marketing material. It’s an opportunity for companies to honestly share the risks of doing business and present an action plan for addressing them.
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By Janine Mendes-Franco
Barbados' plans to purchase land — to the tune of GBP 3 million — from British Conservative MP Richard Drax whose forebears were slave traders, have been put on pause.
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By Tim Ziegler, Collection Manager, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Museums Victoria Research Institute
Finding and retrieving the bones of this extinct kangaroo relative – a ‘holy grail’ fossil – took hours of squeezing through narrow passages.
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By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
Since last year, I have been working on a project with my Thai mother who migrated to Australia in 1974 while pregnant with me. To fill in the archive, we’ve been looking towards AI.
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By Amanda Davies, Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
So few babies are Australians having that, without migration, Australia’s population would be on track to turn down from 2037.
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