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This year’s fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week brings torrential rain, the next a burst of heat, followed by a sharp cold snap.

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year’s major UN climate summit.

The Dismissal still looms as Australia’s greatest political crisis, 50 years on. The familiar story centres on four figures. Governor general Sir John Kerr – who, on November 11 1975, sacked prime minister Gough Whitlam. Malcolm Fraser, the opposition leader who blocked the budget to force the election he would…

On November 11 1975, one of the most cataclysmic events in Australian political history unfolded when Governor-General John Kerr sacked the Whitlam Labor government.

When Australians of a certain age imagine Gough Whitlam, they probably think of him standing on the steps of Parliament House, addressing the crowd after Governor-General John Kerr’s shocking decision to dismiss his government. The Dismissal marked an astonishing end to an extraordinary, occasionally inept, government.

Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For newcomers to a country, success often depends on learning to read fluently in a new language.

Since first being detected in Newfoundland in 2021, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI A(H5Nx), has had a dramatic impact on North America.

Canadians have often looked to Aotearoa New Zealand as an established model for electoral inclusion of Indigenous voices.

Perhaps you’ve heard the name John McCrae, the famous poet who wrote “In Flanders Fields.”

Like previous federal budgets, the recently released Budget 2025 fails to acknowledge a pressing generational shift for Canada’s economy: the succession crisis facing most Canadian family-owned businesses.

John Laws was one of the most influential, commercially successful yet polarising figures in the history of Australian radio broadcasting. He has died at the age of 90.