Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in recent months have tested university administrators and the police. This week, federal parliamentarians, including the prime minister, erupted in outrage at the protests that have disrupted MPs’ electorate offices. Anthony Albanese’s office in his Sydney seat of Grayndler has been closed and his electorate staff are working from the Sydney Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices. The disruption of MPs’ offices, which is frustrating constituents, many of them seeking assistance on social security and similar issues, was raised in the Labor caucus on Tuesday. The Greens have become the object of Labor and Liberal fury for their alleged role in…
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Helmet got lost in All-Ireland U20 hurling celebrations June 06, 2024 Offalys Caleum Larkin with Tipperary’s Joe Egan. ©INPHO/Ken Sutton. The mother of Offaly hurling starlet Caelum Larkin has issued an appeal for his missing helmet. In an online post, Sophia Larkin explained how her son’s green Cooper helmet got lost during the celebrations after last Saturday evening’s All-Ireland U20HC final in Nowlan Park, and is hoping he will have it back in time for a match with his club Carrig & Riverstown tomorrow night! “Somehow last Saturday in all the excitement a supporter of the Offaly U20 team mistakenly…
Road Contractor Corp. faces $819K in proposed penalties LONG BRANCH, NJ – A Long Branch construction contractor with a history of ignoring federal fall safety standards has again been found exposing employees to potentially deadly fall hazards in eight work site inspections from November 2023 to March 2024.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened the eight inspections of Road Contractor Corp. in Evesham, Freehold, Manalapan, Marlton, Mullica Hill and Rumson as part of OSHA’s National Emphasis Program on Falls. In 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 395 fatal workplace falls, the leading cause of death in the…
The conviction of Donald Trump in a criminal trial in New York has electrified the race for the White House. But will it make a difference to how the arguments will play out in the campaign — especially on what the contest means for the rest of the world? K.T. McFarland is a leading supporter of Trump’s campaign, a MAGA Republican who served as his deputy national security adviser. She’s an influential voice on defense and foreign policy in Republican circles. Host Anne McElvoy talks to McFarland about how she thinks Trump could resolve the war in Ukraine and his…
How can we explain and predict human behaviour? Are mathematics and probability up to the task, or are humans too complex and irrational? Often, people’s actions take us by surprise, particularly when they seem irrational. Take the COVID pandemic: one thing nobody saw coming was a rush on toilet paper that left supermarket shelves bare in many countries. But by combining ideas from mathematics, economics and behavioural science, researchers were eventually able to make mathematical models of how panic spreads between people, which made sense of the toilet paper panic. In new research published in the Journal of the Royal…
We, the Governments of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, welcome the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors’ adoption of a resolution on Iran this afternoon. The resolution responds to Iran’s persistent refusal to cooperate in good faith with the IAEA to clarify outstanding issues relating to undeclared nuclear material detected at multiple locations in Iran. Iran is legally obligated under its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Safeguards Agreement to cooperate with the IAEA and account for all nuclear material and activities. 18 months ago, the IAEA Board stated that it was essential and urgent for Iran to act…
On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of the Kingdom of Denmark as you celebrate the anniversary of your Constitution. The partnership between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark has thrived for more than two centuries and is rooted in shared democratic values and a common vision for global peace, stability, and prosperity. We look forward to deepening our partnership as we continue to strengthen our Alliance through NATO; ensure a safe, stable, and prosperous Arctic region; defend against authoritarian regimes and threats to democracy; support further growth in trade and investment between…
Every day, women are working on frontier science in Earth’s unforgiving polar environments. Our study, published today in PLOS Climate, investigated what their experiences are actually like. Fieldwork in the Arctic and Antarctica is a critical part of the scientific research that’s addressing the unprecedented challenges of global climate change. It ranges from day trips to living onboard research ships in the Arctic and Southern Oceans, to spending months at research bases in the polar regions. Women play a critical role in just about all of it. They take on fieldwork roles from research assistant to team leader. However, our…
This week, I’m elated that my play Post Alice will be performed on the Blyth Festival Theatre’s stage as part of the Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story in Huron County, the Huron Tract on Treaty 29 territory in southwestern Ontario. This region is also known to some readers and writers as “Alice Munro Country.” As a young girl growing up in Huron County, Ont., in the 1990s, I spent hours reading Munro’s stories. In the years since, I have remained a devoted fan of her work, particularly for her complex depictions of southwestern Ontario life. I’ve also learned…
Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica has received, today, a Statement on “Defending democracy in Europe: Addressing the threat of authoritarian populism and reinforcing democratic practice” from the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), an independent advisory body to the Commission.The report was requested by the Vice-President following the EGE’s Opinion on “Democracy in the Digital Age” of June 2023, which had analysed – upon a letter to the EGE by President von der Leyen – how current socio-technical arrangements can have detrimental effects on democratic practice. The EGE’s new Statement focuses on questions around civic engagement and European…