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Opening address at the 40 years of the Women, Sport and the Media Report’ pop-up exhibition
Associate Professor Fiona McLachlan from Victoria University opens the exhibition

Gender equity in sport in Australia – how far have we come?
How far has gender equity for women in Australian sport come in the last 40 years? An outreach event for Professor Kate Henne's ARC-funded project was held on 22 May at the State Library in Melbourne.
Maegan at the Grand Canyon
Maegan at the Grand Canyon

PhD spotlight: Meet Maegan Miccelli
Third year PhD scholar Maegan Miccelli is interested in research on extreme heat governance and vulnerability. In this Q&A, she shares how her PhD journey is going and what keeps her motivated.
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Reynol Cheng’s research on restorative justice cited by Taiwan’s High Court
A recent Taiwan High Court ruling cited a peer-reviewed article by RegNet PhD scholar Reynol Cheng, reflecting the increasing role of academic research in legal decisions in Taiwan.
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Binota Dhamai at the 24th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Binota Dhamai contributed to high-level discussions on Indigenous rights and self-determination at the 24th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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Introducing our new PhD scholars
We are delighted to welcome our new cohort of PhD scholars as they begin their academic journey here at RegNet.
Dr Albert Barume

Building understanding between Indigenous Peoples and the state
Dr Albert Barume, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, spoke about pathways to building mutual understanding between Indigenous Peoples and the State.
(L-R) Andrew Ambers, Dr Jeff Nicholls, Professor John Borrows, Dr Virginia Marshall and Professor Jeff Corntassel

Update on Australian water law given to the International Indigenous Law Colloquium at UVic British Columbia
Virginia Marshall joined over 100 legal academics at the International Indigenous Law Colloquium, held at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Research grant to boost Australia-China green finance collaboration
Professor Howard Bamsey is part of a research team that secured a $580,000 grant from the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations to strengthen green finance cooperation.

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Prabowo’s flawed logic on the Natuna joint development proposal
Despite objection to China’s nine-dash line claim under the former Widodo administration, President Prabowo Subianto now risks giving in to Chinese maritime interests, writes Aristyo Rizka Darmawan.

Pahalgam 2025: Analysing YouTube Comments across South Asia
As tensions grew following the attack on tourists in Pahalgam, how did people in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan engage with the incident? Anurug Chakma analyses the responses using the Louvain algorithm in R.

Prabowo chooses ambiguity in South China Sea policy
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s South China Sea policy has many contradictions and inconsistencies, particularly regarding China’s nine-dash line, writes Aristyo Darmawan.

Unpacking the local impacts of foreign interests in Timor-Leste
As geopolitical competition and economic security partnerships become more contentious, foreign actors must consider local political economy dynamics to better understand and manage their impacts, writes Aderito Soares.

Compound exposure: Could our dominant solutions to the climate crisis make things worse?
A rapid transition to renewable energy-systems is the prevailing solution to our planetary problem, but the rush to source minerals and metals raises serious questions, writes Nick Bainton.

Can Pacific nations regulate the risks of deep-sea mining?
Effective regulation means more than having laws on the books and policies on the shelf. It requires capable institutions, technical expertise and long-term investment in governance, write Nick Bainton and Philippa Louey.

What Labor and the Coalition are promising on migration
Net overseas migration added 31,000 fewer people than if migration had stayed at the levels projected in 2019. And the numbers are still heading down as more people on temporary visas leave, says Alan Gamlen.

Building peace from the ground up: a call for a peace strategy in PNG
The absence of a long-term peacebuilding strategy within state institutions and the security sector leaves significant gaps in efforts to respond to violence, write Miranda Forsyth and Sinclair Dinnen.

Upcoming events
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Image of natural gas flares from a flare-head at the Orvis State well on the Evanson family farm in McKenzie County, North Dakota, USA by Tim Evanson (CC BY-SA 2.0) from Wikipedia Commons
Image of natural gas flares from a flare-head at the Orvis State well on the Evanson family farm in McKenzie County, North Dakota, USA by Tim Evanson (CC BY-SA 2.0) from Wikipedia Commons
Thu, 12 Jun 2025

Breaking ranks: business fragmentation over climate policy reforms

Business can make or break climate policy reforms – why some oil and gas companies backed US methane rules while others fought them is examined.
Do climatic hazards affect men and women differently? Evidence from coastal Bangladesh using sex-disaggregated rapid survey data
Tue, 17 Jun 2025

Do climatic hazards affect men and women differently? Evidence from coastal Bangladesh using sex-disaggregated rapid survey data

A tropical cyclone in Bangladesh affected men and women in different ways, highlighting the need for disaster response and policies that address these gender-based differences.
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Image of Tiffany McDonald and Beni Suryadi in front of a map of the ASEAN Power Grid at the ASEAN Centre for Energy, from the Australian Embassy Jakarta flickr account, used under CC by 2.0 licence.
Image of Tiffany McDonald and Beni Suryadi in front of a map of the ASEAN Power Grid at the ASEAN Centre for Energy, from the Australian Embassy Jakarta flickr account, used under CC by 2.0 licence.
Thu, 19 Jun 2025

The political economy of electricity trade in Southeast Asia

This talk examines how the transnational regulation of energy demand is impacting the politics of electricity interconnection and trading in Southeast Asia.
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Saving the World Webinars
Thu, 19 Jun 2025

How alienation stemming from 21st Century Capitalism affects our health

Episode 21 of the Saving the World webinar series features Professor Fran Baum.
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Image of woman returning home after selling vegetables in a village in Sri Lanka, supplied by speaker, all rights reserved.
Image of woman returning home after selling vegetables in a village in Sri Lanka, supplied by speaker, all rights reserved.
Thu, 26 Jun 2025

Women in ‘border villages’: imagining and practicing community in postwar Sri Lanka

This research attempts to rethink community and nation-making in Sri Lanka beyond ethnicity, through a focus on women in the so-called ‘border villages’ in Sri Lanka.
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Planetary Health Equity Future Leaders Program
Mon, 1 Sep - Fri, 12 Sep 2025

Planetary Health Equity Future Leaders Program 2025

Applications for the 2025 Future Leader Program have closed.

We are very excited to announce the third Planetary Health Equity Future Leaders pro

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Tue, 10 Jun 2025

Labour mobility as climate adaptation in Kiribati: a pathway to mobility with dignity?

Does the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme facilitate climate adaptation in Kiribati while enabling mobility with dignity, or does it reinforce dependency and displacement?
Tue, 3 Jun 2025

Data protection and deceptive design patterns

This seminar will explore the role for data protection law in regulating deceptive design patterns and reflects on what this means for the notion of control in these laws.
Thu, 29 May 2025

Lawyers of the sea: hidden struggle and contest that shape Indonesia’s archipelagic state practice

This socio-legal research investigates the role of government legal advisors in shaping Indonesia’s compliance with the international law of the sea.
Thu, 29 May 2025

Post election wrap up: Are we any closer to Planetary Health Equity?

In Episode 20 of the Saving the World webinar series, we'll discuss how the Federal Election might impact planetary health equity.
Tue, 20 May 2025

RegNet AI Series – the introduction

This first session will introduce the aim of the series and open the floor for you to tell us what you would like to hear and discuss in the following sessions.
Tue, 13 May 2025

Regulating online platform-based advertising: from transparency to observability to accountability - lessons from the Australian Ad Observatory

Hear about the Australian Ad Observatory and how to hold digital platforms accountable platforms for creating unhealthy online advertising environments.

Tue, 6 May 2025

The algorithm of authority: human-centric AI in China’s state capitalism and Confucian tradition

This seminar explores how China’s human-centric AI challenges Western ideals, reflecting its authoritarian governance and Confucian values of order and collective well-being.
Tue, 29 Apr 2025

Dragonfly Thinking – one year later

An exploration of how we can learn to use AI to augment our thinking and co-create with it, while navigating the jagged frontier of AI’s fast-changing capabilities.

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