By Melissa Haswell, Professor of Practice (Environmental Wellbeing), Indigenous Strategy and Services, Honorary Professor (Geosciences) at University of Sydney & Professor of Health, Safety and Environment, Queensland University of Technology, University of Sydney
David Shearman, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide
Opposition leader Peter Dutton says a Coalition government would push for approval of the huge project, which would release billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The inauguration of Indonesia's new President Prabowo Subianto's at the House of Representative building in Jakarta, October 20, 2024. © 2024 Indonesian Parliament/ Pool/Anadolu via Getty Images (New York) – Indonesia’s parliament should drop proposed amendments to the 2004 armed forces law that will significantly expand the military’s role in civilian governance and weaken legal checks on abusive officials, Human Rights Watch and six Indonesian human rights organizations said today. The National Armed Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia) Act, Law No. 34/2004, is to be…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, March 4th, 2024. © 2024 Ute Grabowsky/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo On Tuesday, the well-known political activist and journalist Idrissa Barry was arrested by men claiming to be gendarmes in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, sparking fears he has been forcibly disappeared.Barry, 48, is the national secretary of the opposition political group Servir et Non se Servir (“To Serve and Not Serve Oneself,” or SENS).According to Barry’s colleagues and the media, Barry was arrested while attending a meeting with officials in Saaba, a district…
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By Janine Mendes-Franco
"[M]oko jumbies in Africa were spirits that guarded villages ... a good way to think about [Dragon, who] has taken so many children under his wing and taught them to fly."
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By Michael Joseph Dominic Roberts, Associate Dean & Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Communications Studies, Mount Royal University
Etayankara Muralidharan, Associate Professor, Department of International Business, Marketing, Strategy & Law, MacEwan University
Asia has emerged as an attractive alternative for Canadian businesses looking to diversify away from the U.S., but there are challenges they will need to overcome.
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By Cassandra Burke Robertson, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
The current case focused on the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants raises concerns about whether the president will continue to respect the country’s legal system.
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By Joshua Black, Visitor, School of History, Australian National University
At the turn of the 21st century, Australia put on a show for the world, but for all the talk of the future, we still had one foot in the past.
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By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
The rise of the information economy has been one of the biggest transformations of the Australian economic landscape since the start of the millennium.
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By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
Shoshana Rapley, Research Assistant, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
Tayla Lawrie, Project Manager, Threatened Species Index, The University of Queensland
For the fourth year running, the condition of Australia’s environment has been relatively good overall. Our national environment scorecard released today gives 2024 a mark of 7.7 out of 10.
You might wonder how this can be. After all, climate change is intensifying and threatened species are still in decline.
The main reason: good rainfall partly offset the impact of global warming. In many parts of Australia, rainfall, soil water and river flows were well above average, there were fewer large bushfires, and vegetation…
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By Aaron Camens, Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University
Amy Tschirn, PhD Candidate in Vertebrate Palaeontology, Flinders University
Peter Bishop, Postdoctoral research fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Musky rat-kangaroos look a bit like a potoroo – but they have a unique trait not shared with any other roos.
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