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Australians are increasingly anxious about their personal and financial wellbeing, leading to the lowest life satisfaction in five years, according to new results from The Australian National University (ANU) Election Monitoring Survey Series.

From 17 to 22 April, the student information system will be unavailable due to an upgrade. This includes Canvas, VUnet, TestVision and Studielink. As of 22 April, everything will be available again. Politicians with dark personality traits such as narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism contribute to growing affective polarisation among citizens.

While some progress has been made towards gender equality in Australian elections, women remain underrepresented among candidates in the 2025 federal election, a new report from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.

The media, with the Internet at the forefront, has been expanding its area of influence and drastically homogenising the narratives through which we give meaning to the world, even beyond the media context.

People who believe that female candidates are at a disadvantage in elections are mistaken, according to two studies conducted by political scientist André Blais.

Police officers in the Netherlands are rarely brought before the criminal court, and the country does not assess incidents of police violence according to the standards set by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Belief in the kindness of others is much more closely tied to happiness than previously thought, according to World Happiness Report 2025 , p ublished by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford.

Trust takes years to build and seconds to break - not least when it comes to international relations.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Professor Kristin M Bakke (UCL Political Science) uses her public opinion polling to examine what the Ukrainian people are willing to accept for peace.

With the launch of the TGuard research project, an interdisciplinary consortium is sending a strong signal against the spread of fake news.

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