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No room for the timid: setting Australia’s 2035 emissions target is a daring tightrope act

Can the Albanese government strike the right balance: set a climate policy that’s strong enough to work, but isn’t branded ...

Kids with ‘developmental delay’ will be diverted from the NDIS. But how do you know if your child is delayed?

Developmental delay might mean a toddler isn’t using sentences when expected, or not meeting milestones such as walking or ...

Israel’s killing of journalists follows a pattern of silencing Palestinian media that stretches back to 1967

Since October 2023, Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed nearly 200 journalists. But the targeting of media predates the ...

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction

In Desolation, inexplicable elements, often in the form of coincidence, disrupt and distort causal chains. Dreams and ...

The rise of humanlike chatbots detracts from developing AI for the human good

Nonetheless, AI companies have pushed on, building systems that exploit these biases. The justification is that this makes ...

Hurricane Katrina: 3 painful lessons for emergency management are increasingly important 20 years later

The 2005 hurricane was a disaster made worse by a lack of coordination and communication among governments and emergency ...

5 million small business employees now have a right to disconnect from work unless it’s ‘unreasonable’. What does that mean?

Whether you’re a worker wanting to switch off at home, or a small business owner with last-minute roster changes, here’s how ...

Medicinal cannabis is most often prescribed for pain, anxiety and sleep. Here’s what the evidence says

Medicinal cannabis use has increased rapidly in Australia over recent years. But there’s limited evidence it helps the ...

Australia has banned 3 ‘forever chemicals’ – but Europe wants to ban all 14,000 as a precaution

It’s taken years for Australia to ban three types of forever chemicals. But Europe plans to ban thousands of these chemicals ...

South Africa’s sewage crisis: official reports don’t include millions of litres of leaking wastewater

At least 20 million litres of sewage is leaking from pipes into the environment in just one South African city. The problem ...

Orwell’s opposition to totalitarianism was rooted in his support for freeing workers from poverty and exploitation

George Orwell, the author of two classic anti-totalitarian, pro-freedom novels from the 1940s, was a democratic socialist who ...