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Charles Darwin University Charles Darwin University expert Dr Awni Etaywe is a lecturer in linguistics and a forensic linguistics researcher focusing on terrorism, incitement to hatred, radicalisation and genocide, and digital deviance.  “Extremist messages work by […]

By Walt Zlotow Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza is obvious to all with a moral conscious. Killing 70,000 Palestinians under 50,000 tons of US bombs obliterating Gaza’s 139 square miles is easy to process. […]

A ghost haunts the halls of Australian governance. It is the ghost of Robodebt – a scheme now synonymous with unlawful, systemic cruelty. Yet, before this ghost has even been properly laid to rest, a […]

It’s so silly as to be depraved. Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for hosting rights to an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than it resolves […]

What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some form. Who is to marry whom; the process of selecting the appropriate breeding partners; the […]

By Tracie Aylmer Autistic people are wonderful and caring individuals whose unique ways of interacting with the world never fail to put a smile on my face. I’ve worked as a phlebotomist for nearly four […]

History holds up certain moments not merely as events to remember, but as dire, living prophecies. The collapse of the Weimar Republic is one such moment – a masterclass in how the death of a […]

In the corridors of power in Washington and the tech hubs of Silicon Valley, a term is well-known: the “military-industrial complex.” Sixty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned his nation of its “unwarranted influence.” […]

A wise voice recently posed a challenge: the first step toward peace is to discard all language having to do with war. This is not a call for polite speech, but for a radical act […]

Inspired by the vision of Carl Sagan What if the selfishness and cruelty of our modern world was a passing blip in time? The warnings that Carl Sagan gave before his death 29 years ago […]

Google has become something of a fixture in digital infrastructure in the Pacific. In late 2023, Canberra announced a joint project with the US, Google and Vocus, an Australian digital infrastructure firm, to deliver the […]