Australia News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on July 4, 2025.
MIL-Evening Report: Grattan on Friday: how two once hot-button issues this week barely sparked media and political interest
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Political and news cycles often work in a certain and predictable way. Issues flare like bushfires, then rage for weeks or even months, until they are finally extinguished by action or fade by being overtaken by the next big thing. […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dominic Davies, Reader in English, City St George’s, University of London There are more refugees in the world today than at any other point in history. The United Nations estimates that there are now more than 120 million people forcibly displaced from their homes. That is one in […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Experiencing extreme weather and disasters is not enough to change views on climate action, study shows
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Omid Ghasemi, Research Associate in Behavioural Science at the Institute for Climate Risk & Response, UNSW Sydney STR / AFP via Getty Images Climate change has made extreme weather events such as bushfires and floods more frequent and more likely in recent years, and the trend is […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Bali to Biarritz: Surf spot overcrowding and the fight to protect the essence of catching a wave
Source: The Conversation – France – By Jérémy Lemarié, Maître de conférences à l’Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) Invented in Hawaii, surfing gained popularity in the United States and Australia in the 1950s before becoming a global phenomenon. Now practiced in more than 150 countries, its spread has been driven by […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dominic Davies, Reader in English, City St George’s, University of London There are more refugees in the world today than at any other point in history. The United Nations estimates that there are now more than 120 million people forcibly displaced from their homes. That is one in […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Experiencing extreme weather and disasters is not enough to change views on climate action, study shows
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Omid Ghasemi, Research Associate in Behavioural Science at the Institute for Climate Risk & Response, UNSW Sydney STR / AFP via Getty Images Climate change has made extreme weather events such as bushfires and floods more frequent and more likely in recent years, and the trend is […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Our memories are unreliable, limited and suggestible – and it’s a good thing too
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Milan Kundera opens his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a scene from the winter of 1948. Klement Gottwald, leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, is giving a speech to the masses from a […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: ‘Shit in, shit out’: AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Tom Lee, Senior Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney David Gray / AFP / Getty Images Australian farms are at the forefront of a wave of technological change coming to agriculture. Over the past decade, more than US$200 billion (A$305 billion) has been invested globally […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Trump demands an end to the war in Gaza – could a ceasefire be close?
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Marika Sosnowski, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock Hopes are rising that Israel and Hamas could be inching closer to a ceasefire in the 20-month war in Gaza. US President Donald Trump is urging progress, taking to social media to demand: MAKE THE DEAL IN […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Bali to Biarritz: Surf spot overcrowding and the fight to protect the essence of catching a wave
Source: The Conversation – France – By Jérémy Lemarié, Maître de conférences à l’Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) Invented in Hawaii, surfing gained popularity in the United States and Australia in the 1950s before becoming a global phenomenon. Now practiced in more than 150 countries, its spread has been driven by […]
MIL-Evening Report: How many serious incidents are happening in Australian childcare centres? We don’t really know
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Harper, Lecturer, School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney Catherine Delahaye/ Getty Images This week, a Melbourne childcare worker was charged over alleged sexual abuse of young children in his care. Families are justifiably appalled and furious – with 1,200 children urged to be […]
MIL-OSI Russia: What events will take place as part of “Summer in Moscow” in the coming days
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow – A performance at the rollerdrome, water painting, evening readings and Moscow Sports Day – this and much more awaits guests of the Summer in Moscow project this week. We tell you where to spend time usefully and what to do at city venues […]
MIL-OSI NGOs: Greenpeace Australia Pacific response to CSIRO deep sea mining research
Source: Greenpeace Statement – SYDNEY, Thursday 03 July 2025 – In response to the new deep sea mining environmental frameworks issued by the CSIRO today, the following quotes can be attributed to Shiva Gounden, Head of Pacific at Greenpeace Australia Pacific: “These reports highlight, yet again, the dangers of deep sea mining for marine life […]
Australian govt confirms $2.2 billion funding for 2032 Brisbane Games venues
Source: Government of India Source: Government of India (4) The Australian government has confirmed it will contribute A$3.435 billion ($2.25 billion) towards the A$7.1 billion cost of building the venues for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics, clearing the way for the start of construction. Queensland taxpayers and private finance will provide the balance of the money […]
MIL-OSI Australia: UPDATE: Call for information – Hit and Run – Leanyer
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services The Northern Territory Police Force are continuing to call for information in relation to a hit and run in Leanyer on Friday, 27 June 2025. About 7:05pm on Friday, emergency services received reports of a hit and run along Leanyer Drive and responded to the incident. A female […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Paw patrol to the rescue for Peggy
Source: A beloved dog who went missing for two days has been safely rescued after falling down an abandoned mine shaft in the Wombat State Forest in Langdons Hill. Peggy, a Kelpie-Border Collie cross, was out bushwalking with her owners when she suddenly took off into the bush and didn’t return. After two long days […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Interview – TODAY with Karl Stefanovic and Jayne Azzopardi
Source: Murray Darling Basin Authority KARL STEFANOVIC: Well, the crisis gripping Australia’s child care sector is deepening, with a second man charged in connection to an abuse investigation that led to the arrest of a Melbourne worker. JAYNE AZZOPARDI: The Victorian Government has announced a major crackdown which will include a phone ban inside centres. […]
MIL-Evening Report: 10 steps governments can take now to stamp out child sexual abuse in care settings
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Mathews, Distinguished Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology Recent cases of prolific alleged child sexual abuse in Melbourne and other Australian early childhood education and care settings have shocked even experienced people who work to prevent child sexual abuse. Parents are right to be […]
MIL-Evening Report: Tears, trauma and unpaid work: why men in tinnies aren’t the only heroes during a flood disaster
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca McNaught, Research Fellow, Rural and Remote Health, University of Sydney Dan Peled/Getty Images When flooding strikes, our screens fill with scenes of devastated victims, and men performing heroic dinghy rescues in swollen rivers. But another story often goes untold: how women step in, and step up, […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Rates for financial year ending 30 June 2025
Source: New places to play in Gungahlin Foreign currency exchange rates for financial year 2025 – foreign currency equivalent to 1 AUD. Country Average rate for year ended 31 Dec 2024 Average rate for year ended 30 Jun 2025 Nearest actual exchange rate 31 Dec 2024 Nearest actual exchange rate 30 Jun 2025 Currency Canada 0.9041 0.9039 0.8922 0.8947 Canadian […]