Updated U.S. law still leaves Indigenous communities in Canada out of repatriations from museums
Mar 28, 2024 12:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
A new amendment to the United States Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) came into effect in January 2024. The amended law now has some teeth to penalize museums who have thus far been very slow...
Mar 25, 2024 07:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Business
Shifting Australias electricity sector to low-carbon technologies and closing coal plants is vital to tackling climate change. But such transitions are easier said than done. People and economies are often deeply...
ISIS-K’s attack in Moscow risks escalating the Russia-Ukraine war
Mar 25, 2024 05:13 am UTC| Insights & Views
A music concert in suburban Moscow became the scene of a bloody terrorist attack on March 22 as gunmen with automatic weapons and Molotov cocktails killed more than 130 people and injured dozens more. Immediately after...
Why March Madness is a special time of year for state budgets
Mar 25, 2024 05:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
March Madness the time when the best mens and womens college basketball teams challenge each other is a made-for-television spectacle watched by millions. While March Madness has been around for decades, one of the...
The ideal James Bond is an actor on the cusp of superstardom – as film history shows
Mar 25, 2024 05:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
More people have walked on the Moon than have played James Bond, so its no wonder that the suave secret agent with a licence to kill is one of the most coveted roles in cinema. The casting of a new 007 always grabs the...
The Program: Netflix show exposes the dark side of America’s ‘troubled teens’ schools
Mar 25, 2024 05:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
A new Netflix documentary series, The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping, about the troubled-teen industry, is laying bare the way teenagers with so-called behavioural issues are systematically abused and tortured in the...
Conspiracy theorist tactics show it’s too easy to get around Facebook’s content policies
Mar 25, 2024 05:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
During the COVID pandemic, social media platforms were swarmed by far-right and anti-vaccination communities that spread dangerous conspiracy theories. These included the false claims that vaccines are a form of...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well