By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Police fire tear gas shells to disperse students protesting against ethnic violence in Imphal, in India's northeastern state of Manipur, September 10, 2024. © 2024 Paojel Chaoba/AP Photo India’s northeastern state of Manipur is facing risks of renewed ethnic violence despite the resignation of its divisive chief minister and the imposition of president’s rule on February 13, 2025.India’s Supreme Court expressed concerns over what it termed the “absolute breakdown of law and order” in Manipur after the May 2023 breakout of ethnic violence between the predominant…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
With a five-week campaign ahead, the polls have swing back in favour of Labor - but it’s still very close.
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By Chris Wallace, Professor, School of Politics Economics & Society, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra
Anthony Albanese must use his talented front bench to convince voters that inside his government there’s a better one waiting to break out.
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By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
The combative opposition leader has continued to focus on prising suburbanites away from Labor with a relentless campaign emphasising the rising cost-of-living.
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By Joshua Black, Visitor, School of History, Australian National University
The surge of successful independent MPs at the 2022 election shows no sign of changing – and in fact may grow more powerful still.
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By Pandanus Petter, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
Now that an election has been called, Australian voters will go to the polls on May 3 to decide the fate of the first-term, centre-left Australian Labor Party government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
In Australia, national elections are held every three years. The official campaign period only lasts for around a month.
This time around, Albanese will be seeking to hold onto power after breaking Labor’s nine-year dry spell by beating the more right-leaning Liberal Party, led by Scott Morrison, in 2022.
Now, he’s up against the Liberals’ new leader,…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
With the next parliament, like this one, expected to have a large crossbench, present polling is pointing towards a minority government as a likely outcome.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The election campaign starts with the government and opposition neck and neck – and minority government considered a real possibility.
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By Dennis Altman, Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
It seems Britain has one key inducement to offer US President Donald Trump: a state visit hosted by King Charles.
One can only imagine what the king thinks of this, but he will undoubtedly maintain a stiff upper lip and preside over several lavish dinners.
Following reports of this offer, which would make Trump the only US president to be twice hosted by a British monarch, stories surfaced that the US might become an associate member of the Commonwealth.
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By Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
Yumna Kassab’s new book, The Theory of Everything, is not a typical novel. It is, its blurb declares, “a fictional theory, a rant, a manifesto […] five mini-novels or else five post-novels”.
But what is a post-novel? And what is the theory of everything?
Review: The Theory of Everything – Yumna Kassab (Ultimo Press)
A novel is usually thought of as a work of prose fiction that seeks to represent the world (or its own world, if we think of fantasy or…
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