Independent Analysis and Reportage
By amending its Education Act to remove the language of ‘diversity’ and ‘belonging’ and restricting flags that can fly, Alberta is enacting a quiet curriculum of silence.
The Intergenerational Report projects population growth slowing from an average of 1.4% a year over the last 40 years to 0.9% a year over the coming four decades.
By Coco Lance of RNZ Pacific Over the years, 21-year-old Siaosi (George) Lavelua (Kolomotu’a, Makave) has often made the trip north to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds with freshly made ‘otai in tow. His whānau business, Lav’s ‘otai — dealing in the much loved Polynesian drink that typically mixes coconut and fruit — is the longest-serving
When a loyal ally can be squeezed over land inside its own territory, collective defence starts to look like an open protection racket.
During his acceptance speech at the 83rd Venice Film Festival last week, Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham challenged audiences — particularly Israelis and Europeans — to watch his documentary NAZA and confront the reality of the AI military systems used in the genocidal war on Gaza. Abraham and co-director Rachel Szor received the Special Jury Prize
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Julian Assange is officially back on X/Twitter, restoring to the world an important voice we were robbed of by the US empire’s years-long campaign to silence the WikiLeaks founder via lifelong imprisonment for forbidden acts of journalism. Not everyone will remember it but there was a time when this was almost
Teenage pregnancy makes visible the pressures, relationships and reproductive conditions that shape young people’s lives across southern Africa.
Asia Pacific Report Thousands took part in today’s Greenpeace-led March for Nature in the heart of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Tāmaki Makaurau. Critics of the coalition government’s controversial proposed Conservation Amendment Bill say this would allow selling off of conservation land, weaken environmental protections, and put short-term profit ahead of people and endanger the future of
RNZ Thousands of people have marched in central Auckland to protest against the government’s proposed Conservation Amendment Bill. The bill is intended to modernise the management of conservation land, enabling more development, but Greenpeace executive director Dr Russel Norman said it would allow the government to sell off conservation land, weaken environmental protections and put
For Annie Dillard, the sonic intensity of poetry was critical to every form of writing she published throughout her life.
Vanbrugh’s houses deliver on sensory impact and stirred emotions – the wow factor.
From Eliza Haywood to Anne Radcliffe, there are other great 18-century writers whose work would be great on screen.