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Kids do feel the cold. So why won’t they wear a jumper?

It happens just when you need to leave. Bags are packed. Shoes are on. Then your child decides a jumper is impossible.

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Tracing art from impressionism through to abstract expressionism, and from Ohio to Adelaide

A feast of modern art from the Toledo Museum of Art has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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The government wants to tap $4 trillion in super to address Australia’s challenges. It’s a risky strategy

Collectively, Australians are sitting on a huge nest egg. At about A$4.5 trillion, our national savings pool is one of the largest in the world.

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Electric vehicles are built different. Australia needs better data to get the most out of the shift

In 2019, China was a minor player in Australia’s car market. Seven years later, it’s now the biggest supplier of new vehicles overall – including about 80% of Australia’s electric vehicles (EVs). The shift to EVs has accelerated markedly this year amid oil price spikes.

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Australians are more concerned about terrorism and cyberattacks than war: new research

2026 has been an unsettling year in terms of Australian security. It opened with the nation still reeling from its worst terrorist attack on home soil. This sense of insecurity has since been compounded by regional and global events, including the conflict in Iran and, more recently, the Chinese ballistic…

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Stop policing AI in the classroom, start teaching it

When handheld calculators entered classrooms in the 1970s, critics sounded the alarm on a wave of math illiteracy. With the internet, the panic shifted to the death of reading.

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A cheap 25-year-old piece of hardware broke Telstra. It’s a wake-up call for other businesses

At a two-and-a-half-hour Senate grilling on Friday, Telstra executives revealed just how bad their catastrophic outage earlier this month was. At its peak, it affected about 45% of calls and data across the telco giant’s national network.

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You won’t sleep until you finish reading this rare, exotic blend of crime and poetry

Night Swimming is an incandescent ride through modern poetry and sexual politics, with a thriller plot that will keep your nerves jittering all the way to the climax. It’s also a guide through the territory of insomnia, with its festival of hallucinatory, blackout, sleepwalking night-terror drugs.

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Many feared a US World Cup under Trump would be a disaster. Its legacy will prove otherwise

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has been a raging success, judging by the numbers, the atmosphere and the absence of any major security incident.

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Building dams to protect Lismore from flooding would cost billions. Could nature do it better?

The unprecedented flooding in New South Wales in 2022 killed 13 people across the state, left 4,000 properties uninhabitable and damaged a further 10,900 homes. Lismore was especially hard hit due to its location on the Wilson River floodplain.

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Newspoll has right-wing parties rebounding from a slump three weeks ago

Three weeks ago, the Newspoll taken in the week after Pauline Hanson’s June 17 National Press Club address had the combined vote for One Nation and the Coalition down three points and the combined vote for Labor and the Greens up five points.

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Spain completely dominates Argentina in one-sided World Cup final

Spain’s victory in this morning’s FIFA World Cup final confirmed what many have long believed: soccer is a team sport, and in the end, the collective defeats the individual.

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Greek fire was the most devastating weapon in the Eastern Roman empire. But what was it?

Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied to Byzantine (Eastern Roman) incendiary weapons famously used in naval combat in the Eastern Mediterranean from around 673 CE to at least the 1180s.

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‘It just got too hard’: how Year 12 subject cuts are affecting students’ access to uni

This month the ABC reported student enrolments at a central Queensland public high school had fallen by 12.5% over a 15-month period.

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New trial of AI-powered traffic lights will be a test for who gets priority on public roads

Later this year, a Queensland council will trial Australia’s first traffic light system powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

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‘Narcissist’ bosses are more likely to oppose work from home, studies show. But are they right?

Have you ever wondered why your boss wants you back in the office full-time, rather than allowing hybrid work, where you can combine work from home and in an office? A fascinating study just shed fresh light on this topic.

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How drug companies are playing hardball with Australia’s PBS

Australia is coming under increasing pressure from international drug companies demanding higher prices for their drugs.

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Burnham’s Britain: what kind of country has the UK’s new prime minister inherited?

When Andy Burnham is handed the keys to 10 Downing Street on Monday, the United Kingdom will have its seventh prime minister in the ten years since it voted to leave the European Union.

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Why the latest blow to the HIV/AIDS response at the UN should have everyone sounding the alarm

The American and Russian delegations at the United Nations, along with six others, recently voted against the new Political Declaration on AIDS. The United States complained about the inclusion of “divisive” political topics “not related to the fight against AIDS.”

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NZ parties want to make rooftop solar more affordable. We found cost isn’t everything

Rooftop solar has emerged as one of the more unexpected policy contests of New Zealand’s election campaign.

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Burnout isn’t new — 18th-century farm records show workers describing the same exhaustion

Nearly 40 per cent of Canadian workers say they feel burnt out often or always, according to a 2025 survey by Mental Health Research Canada and Canada Life. The term has become part of a broader lexicon of modern work, alongside quiet quitting, hustle culture and grindset and “taskmasking.”

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Canadians love outdoor play and land-based learning — but regulations get in the way

Across Canada, every province and territory agrees: outdoor and land-based play belongs at the heart of children’s early learning.

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