By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Top left: The wreckage of a Tajik ambulance that was attacked near a bridge by the Kyrgyz-Tajik border in Chorbog, on September 16, 2022.© 2022 Jean-Baptiste Gallopin/Human Rights Watch. © 2022 Jean-Baptiste Gallopin/Human Rights Watch. Top right: The courtyard of the house of an 83-year-old woman from Khistevarz (Tajikistan), who was killed on September 16, 2022, when an artillery shell hit the house. © 2022 Jean-Baptiste Gallopin/Human Rights Watch. Bottom left: A man looks at a house damaged during fighting in Batken,…
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By GroundViews
Dairy farmers in northern Sri Lanka are facing challenges as external crop cultivators acquire traditional grazing lands. For centuries, these grasslands have been vital feeding grounds for dairy cattle.
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By Bridianne O'Dea, Little Heroes Professor of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Flinders University
Young people are waiting more than three months for mental health care, and are struggling to cope while they wait.
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By Fei Gao, Lecturer in Taxation, Discipline of Accounting, Governance & Regulation, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
Andrew Terry, Professor of Business Regulation, University of Sydney
Tuesday night’s federal budget revealed a sharp drop in what was once a major source of revenue for the government – the tobacco excise.
This financial year, the government expects to earn revenue from the tobacco excise of A$7.4 billion. That’s down sharply from $12.6 billion in 2022–23, and an earlier peak of $16.3 billion in 2019–20.
The government expects this downward trend to continue. Australia’s heavy tobacco taxation has…
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By Arzu Geybullayeva
The announcement came from both ministries of foreign affairs on March 13 informing journalists that the negotiations on the text of the peace deal had been completed.
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By Archana Koirala, Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist; Clinical Researcher, University of Sydney
Kristine Macartney, Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
On March 26 NSW Health issued an alert advising people to be vigilant for signs of measles after an infectious person visited Sydney Airport and two locations in western New South Wales.
The person recently returned from Southeast Asia where there are active measles outbreaks in several countries including Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia.
The NSW alert follows a string of similar alerts…
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By Tanya Latty, Associate Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
Ants are among nature’s greatest success stories, with an estimated 22,000 species worldwide.
Tropical Australia in particular is a global hotspot for ant diversity. Some researchers believe it could hold some of the richest ant biodiversity on the planet, with an estimated 5,000 species in the tropics alone.
But if ants are so successful out in…
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By Kathy Reid, PhD Candidate, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic capabilities” and turn a profit from the popular devices.
Starting today (March 28), Alexa devices will send all audio recordings to the cloud for processing, and choosing not to save these recordings will disable personalisation features.
How do voice assistants work?
A voice assistant…
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By Dylan Gaffney, Associate Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology, University of Oxford
Marlin Tolla, Researcher in Archaeology, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN)
Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day West Papua, some 50,000 years ago.
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By Hamish McCallum, Emeritus Professor, infectious disease ecology, Griffith University
Alison Peel, Sydney Horizon Fellow, veterinarian and wildlife disease ecologist, University of Sydney
Cinthia Pietromonaco, PhD Candidate, School of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
Infection with Australian bat lyssavirus is serious but extraordinarily rare, and there are effective treatments. So there’s no need to panic.
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