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Academics have stepped up calls for the government to stop postponing enforcement of key provisions of the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act.

The Move Forward Party (MFP) MPs delivered well-prepared performances in the two-day general debate, especially during the grilling of the government over shady businesses operated by Chinese triads, according to academics.

Australia's government plans to "out" foreign interference operations that are targeting politicians, academics and community leaders, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said on Tuesday.

Objections to a proposal to kick cattle off Central Otago farmland to make way for an international airport will be put to Christchurch councillors next week.

SCOTLAND does have the right to hold a referendum without the agreement of Westminster under a “people power” concept established at the time of…

Australia and the United States have taken tough measures to counter technology theft and economic espionage from China. But prominent scientists are warning some of the measures are "killing the sector", and Beijing is taking advantage of it.

Since the field of cultural studies got its start in the 1950s, academics have been investigating what different pop cultures have to say about society. While popular culture has often been criticised as a sort of dumbing-down of “real” culture driven by purely commercial interests, research has provided important insight…

THE controversial "anti-strike bill" will put the UK at odds with much of Europe despite the Tories claiming otherwise, academics have…

Students and academics know cancelling speakers is trivial compared with the structural collapse in tertiary education, says academic Kojo Koram