A coronial investigation launched in Tasmania in 2016 has found the University of Tasmania removed and kept human remains without consent or approval. The investigation raises broader questions about collections of human remains in other universities and museums in Australia, and what obligation these institutions have to identify their origin.
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Folge vom 21.09.2025John Santi lays his brother's remains to rest after finding out museum displayed specimens without consent
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Folge vom 21.09.2025Opinions divided on how to save our precious mountain ash forestsNew research has found Australia's heat-stressed forests are rapidly thinning, and could even be producing carbon emissions. It comes as the government prepares to release its 2035 emissions targets and a climate risk report later this month. But local researchers, politicians and Traditional Owner land groups remain divided on how to protect the forest.
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Folge vom 20.09.2025The 80th General Assembly of the UN is meeting in New York. How does it work - and why?World leaders will gather in New York next week for the annual General Assembly. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has highlighted peace, climate, responsible innovation, gender equality, development financing and UN reform as central themes of the week. But the high-level week of the General Assembly also marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. We take a look at just what the UNGA is and what its powers are.
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Folge vom 20.09.2025I feel like privacy is dead: IVF data breach triggers interest in class action lawsuitAfter years of trying to conceive, Isabel Lewis thought the hard part was over — until cybercriminals targeted her fertility clinic. The data breach at Genea Fertility included patient's medical histories, diagnoses and treatments, medications and prescriptions, as well as pathology and diagnostic test results. Now, hundreds of Australians have shown interest in a class action lawsuit over the breach, which could be the first test of new reforms to Australia's Privacy Act.