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Australia’s courts and gender dysphoria

July 15, 2022

By Associate Professor Michelle Taylor-Sands Published on July 15, 2022 Medical treatment for transgender and gender diverse children and young people has been heavily scrutinised by the courts, media and politicians here in Australia and in the UK. Recently, a series of legal cases has challenged the role of the courts in authorising treatment for children experiencing gender dysphoria, and their capacity to consent to that treatment. The role of the courts has been challenged when it comes to authorising treatment for children experiencing gender dysphoria.

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Japan’s hidden landscape of violent crime

July 15, 2022

By Professor Alison Young Published on July 15, 2022 On 8 July, in the city of Nara, the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was shot dead while he was campaigning on behalf of the country’s Liberal Democratic Party. The international community responded with shocked questions. How could this happen? Isn’t Japan a country with very little crime? Despite international shock at the shooting of Abe, the violence of the act is far from unprecedented.

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Australia’s shared future with Southeast Asia

July 14, 2022

By Melissa Conley Tyler Published on July 14, 2022 Early in July, Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong visited Singapore and made a second trip to Indonesia. The week before she was in Vietnam and Malaysia. Add visits by the Minister for Defence to Singapore and the Prime Minister to Indonesia and – even for a hyperactive new government – the focus on the region stands out. So, what do these visits tell us about the government’s vision for Australia’s engagement in the region?

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It’s time to drop COVID-19 vaccine mandates

July 14, 2022

By Professor Nathan Grills Published on July 14, 2022 COVID-19 vaccine mandates, be they ethically right or wrong, helped get people vaccinated and saved lives. But it’s time for them to end for the good of our community, business and the health system. The original aim of COVID-19 vaccines, like influenza vaccines, was to stop severe disease. They did this very effectively and averted thousands of deaths in Australia.

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The treatments keeping landmine detection dogs in the field

July 10, 2022

By Dr Lucas Huggins Published on July 10, 2022 Cambodia is a country that remains plagued by landmine contamination. As a result, the country has a high proportion of physically disabled people in its population, which has a huge impact both socioeconomically and psychologically. Thankfully, specially trained mine detection dogs, that have been used since the early 2000s, do an amazing job of sniffing out landmines to make land safe for occupation and agriculture.

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