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Words can’t save a life – but they can capture it. Debra Adelaide farewells friend Gabrielle Carey

Debra Adelaide’s new novel, When I Am Sixty-Four, is based on her lifelong friendship with the late Gabrielle Carey – a fellow author she first met in primary school, and bonded with over reading. Best known as the teenage author of Puberty Blues, Carey was also a lifelong literary scholar…

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‘Coral houses’ are dotted throughout the Pacific. Now scientists know exactly when they were built

The Mangareva Islands are about 1,600 kilometres southeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia. They get their name (which means “floating mountains”) from the way the sea spray breaking on the surrounding coral atolls, or motu, causes the ancient volcanic peaks to appear as if they are floating above the waves.

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Time to buy local: war fuel price shocks reveal the folly of a long food supply chain

Most of our food travels many thousands of kilometres across Australia to reach our kitchens. We are highly dependent on a vast web of long-haul trucks to move food between growers, massive food distribution hubs and large supermarkets.

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What can Australia do about reports of child criminal exploitation?

Across Australia, there is growing concern about young people not offending independently but allegedly being recruited, coerced and manipulated by adults into committing crime. Recent examples include:

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More people are dying on Australian roads. This program could make drivers safer

Deaths on Australian roads have increased every year since 2020. This is despite the Australian government’s commitment to Vision Zero – having zero deaths or serious injuries on our roads by 2050.

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Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout

Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the United States has ruled.

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A crucial meeting aims to remake the WTO to fit the new global order

With the global rules-based order collapsing, the United Nations faces an existential crisis as the United States leads other countries in defunding and withdrawing from key agencies such as the World Health Organization.

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Why saving power makes economic sense in the transition era

How much will a kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity cost in 2040? The short answer is: a lot. How much would it cost to preserve the energy service of that kWh without actually generating it? Less — much less, in fact.

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Driving in the wrong direction: why NZ’s oil consumption is at a 5-year high

New Zealand’s latest quarterly energy report shows electricity production was above 90% renewable and emissions from generation fell to the lowest level on record.

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Australia must brace for clusters of natural disasters, not just isolated fires and floods

Around the world, communities are battling more extreme weather events. That includes residents in the path of Cyclone Narelle, which is threatening to form again over Western Australia.

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Are video games art or products? This tension lies at the heart of Australia’s gaming industry

In 2004, a largely anonymous team of Australian video game developers released a prototype video game titled Escape from Woomera.

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Giant dragonflies once roamed Earth’s skies. New research upends the textbook theory of why they went extinct

Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years before birds first flapped their wings.

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Ancient texts and marital breakdown: Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody descends into implausibility

When I was a doctoral candidate at Oxford, I spent much of my time working in the papyrology rooms. Usually, my only company was the curator, a kind and learned Sardinian woman who is now a professor at the University of Milan.

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‘Manners for machines’: how new rules could stop AI scrapers destroying the internet

Australians are among the most anxious in the world about artificial intelligence (AI).

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This medicinal cannabis website bends the rules. Take our quiz to see why

When the Queensland Dolphins ran onto the field in mid-April 2024, the rugby league team’s jerseys bore the logo of Alternaleaf – a “plant medicine” clinic.

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This is how the 1970s oil shock played out. There are lessons for the economy today

On October 6 1973, the Yom Kippur War – mainly involving Egypt, Syria and Israel –triggered one of the biggest energy crises of the 20th century. Eleven days later, several Arab members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced they would stop selling oil to countries supporting…

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Trump is remaking the US media in his own image – and smashing accountability with it

This is the point of absurdity we have reached: on March 15, US President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post, asserted that American news organisations were running AI-generated Iranian propaganda, and should be charged with treason for the dissemination of false information. One of the instances he cited was…

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Soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will ripple out to increase costs in every store and sector of the economy

The disruptions from the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran spread quickly to commercial aircraft, shipping lanes and the world’s energy supply. Those repercussions have already hit fuel costs, including for motorists, truckers and fishermen, and are set to spread even more widely, to packaging, household goods, appliances, medicines and…

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Lady Gaga says she took lithium after a ‘psychotic break’ – here’s what the science says about this drug

When Lady Gaga recently spoke in an interview about taking lithium while suffering from a “psychotic break”, it drew attention to a drug that has long been used in psychiatry but is less widely understood outside it.

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Why do some people eat soil? From a prisoner’s lifeline to a modern tasting menu, the history of geophagy

Editor’s note: The UK’s Food Standards Authority and Health Security Agency both advise against eating clay, soil or earth. Links to their guidance are included in this article.

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Why emotional resilience should be at the heart of climate change education

The mental health effects of climate change are receiving growing attention, including how children and young people are uniquely affected. Supporting young people to build and sustain good mental health and wellbeing, and to feel prepared for life and work in an uncertain world, has never been more urgent. However,…

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Climate change is altering Saharan dust – and Europe is downwind

In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have looked up to see an eerie sight: deep orange sunrises and skies thick with a yellowish haze. These hazy skies often deposit “blood rain”, rust-colored precipitation that leaves a fine grit on cars and windows.

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Importing queen bees won’t solve Canada’s beekeeping problems

Every spring, Canadian beekeepers await the arrival of queen bees crucial to their industry. The queens that populate Canadian bee colonies through the season largely do not come from Canada at all.

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Female politicians can be punished at the polls for not smiling – but men aren’t

When election time comes around, campaign posters feature candidates with a determined look in their eye, their local promises, well thought-out slogans in full view, and a smile – which particularly among women politicians has become something of a quiet, political prerequisite.

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2026’s historic snow drought brings worries about water, wildfires and the future in the West

Across much of the Western United States, winter 2026 was the year the snow never came. Many ski resorts got by with snowmaking but shut down their winter operations early. Fire officials and water supply managers are worried about summer.

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