By Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
Under a second Trump presidency, anti-abortion laws will be tightened, while Australian pro-life activists will likely to emboldened as well.
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By Tim Tenbensel, Professor, Health Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Monique Jonas, Associate Professor, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Using ethnicity as a proxy for need is supported by local and international research. The government’s decision to get rid of it will mean worse outcomes for Māori and Pacific New Zealanders.
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By Nik Dennler, PhD Graduate in Computer Science, Western Sydney University
Imagine a robot that can detect scents in the air and track down their sources as efficiently as a dog or a mouse. If realised, it could detect small wildfires in dense forests, find people buried in debris after an earthquake, or even hunt for truffles!
Our research team has brought this vision one step closer to reality, by creating a compact electronic nose capable of identifying odours within milliseconds.
In our study, the goal was to explore this artificial sense of smell, and test how fast we can extract valuable information about the environment from the air. We…
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By Conrad Hamann, Associate Professor of Architectural History, RMIT University
Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre – and the reinforced concrete and steel-beamed building around it – turns 100 today.
The spectacular modern architecture, which was refurbished some years ago by RMIT, was designed by US architect Walter Burley Griffin and his partner Marion Mahony Griffin. It opened on November 7 1924 as a grand “picture palace” and is still used…
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By Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
About 63% of Latino and Hispanic voters in a recent survey said they do not ‘feel like he is talking about me’ when Trump discusses immigration.
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By Rachel Williamson, Senior Tutor in English, University of Canterbury
Director Natalie Bailey’s directorial debut starring New Zealand’s comic actor Jackie van Beek is subtly confronting in its exploration of various taboo topics.
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By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
Some have argued Harris moved too far to the left in the campaign. Instead, she may have failed to listen to the message coming from her base.
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By Christian Downie, Associate Professor, Australian National University
What will a Trump Presidency mean for climate policy, in the US, Australia and elsewhere? Buckle up, it’s not pretty.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Detainees stand behind cell bars at the police immigration detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, January 21, 2019. © 2019 Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo Thai authorities are continuing to place refugees and asylum seekers at risk of torture by forcibly returning them to China, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, and other countries with well-documented records of torturing dissidents.In doing so, Thailand is violating the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which it ratified in 2007. The convention prohibits governments…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Reproductive rights activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2024. © 2024 Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images A second presidential term for Donald Trump, who appointed three of the Supreme Court justices that eliminated the US constitutional right to abortion, poses a serious threat to reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. This is despite opinion polls showing that 63 percent of people in the US think abortion should be legal in all or most cases.We cannot know what happens next, but at the state level some things are clear,…
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