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View from The Hill: Chris Minns makes sense on ISIS brides’ children, while opposition adds to scaremongering

Among today’s leaders, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns is notable in a couple of ways.

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Jean Tong’s Do Not Pass Go is Kafka for the modern corporate age

In the shadow of Franz Kafka’s visionary dystopian fiction, the faceless, hierarchical machinery of bureaucracy has long served as a symbol of quiet, grinding despair. Kafka’s institutions are at once impenetrable and absurd, systems that trap individuals in a perpetual tension between resignation and the faint, flickering hope of change.

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Severe flooding – in central Australia? How a vast humid air mass could soak the desert

On average, Australia’s driest town, Oodnadatta, gets just 172mm of rain a year. But the small town in inland South Australia is likely to get two years’ worth of rain in a single week.

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Is surgery necessary for my endometriosis or ‘suspected’ endo?

If you live with pelvic pain, period pain, sex or bowel symptoms, you may have been told you could have endometriosis, and that surgery is the “gold standard” for diagnosis and treatment.

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The ‘first-night effect’: why it’s hard to sleep when you’re somewhere new

It’s nighttime and you’re exhausted. But the hotel bed feels wrong. The mini fridge won’t stop making that low, irritating hum. The power outlet lights feel brighter than the sun. Outside, random car honks and noises make sleep feel like a distant possibility.

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A viral monkey, his plushie, and a 70-year-old experiment: what Punch tells us about attachment theory

A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship.

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The Coalition has proposed vouchers for nannies or child care. It raises more questions than answers

The federal Coalition has proposed an alternative to the universal child care system involving vouchers that could be used for long daycare, family daycare, nannies or a combination of these.

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Desperate, intelligent, irreverent: in Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, Claire-Louise Bennett breaks up with illusions

In Burnt Norton, the opening section of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, the poet moves down a passage “we did not take” and passes through a door “never opened” to arrive in a mythic rose garden. Here, in the thorny cradle of mournful innocence, a bird delivers the famous line:

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250 million-year-old amphibian fossils from Australia reveal global spread of ‘sea-salamanders’

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons often flood the Martuwarra Fitzroy River – an artery to the Indian Ocean – in…

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After the Milan Cortina medals, what comes next for Australian winter sports?

Milan Cortina 2026 was Australia’s most successful Winter Olympics.

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The work women do has changed. The case for pay equity in NZ hasn’t

Pay equity is back in the spotlight in New Zealand, with an unofficial “people’s select committee” about to report on last year’s legislative changes that overhauled the process and cancelled existing claims.

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Government has halted controversial policy of destroying court records, investigation reveals

A controversial policy of destroying recordings of trials after seven years is to be abandoned, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has disclosed.

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Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.

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Good fungus may one day help save plants from bad fungus like deadly myrtle rust disease

What do coffee, sugar, wheat, soy, eucalypts and paperbarks all have in common?

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Satellite imaging is now vital for disaster management. But there are dangerous gaps in our systems

The extreme weather events and resulting destruction that have hit New Zealand this summer are not only signs of a changing climate. They also highlight the now indispensable role of remote sensing satellite technology.

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The ground beneath Sydney emits radiation. But it’s nothing to worry about

When most people hear the word radiation, their mind jumps straight to nuclear disasters, such as at Chernobyl or Fukushima.

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Planning a face lift? Why asking about your mental health doesn’t always hit the mark

If you walk into a cosmetic surgeon’s office, you probably wouldn’t expect to be asked about your recent break-up or how you cope with stress.

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How can unis balance academic freedom with the need to protect against antisemitism?

Australian students are returning to university campuses for the start of the academic year. They do so amid highly charged debates around racism and antisemitism.

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Gaza’s cultural sites have been decimated. UNESCO’s muted response sets a dangerous precedent

Since October 2023, Israel’s war in Gaza has caused mass human suffering. But it has also brought devastation to the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people.

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How AI resurrects racist stereotypes and disinformation — and why fact-checking isn’t enough

By any measure, 2025 is the year artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly shifted the way we work, interact with each other and engage with the world at large. It has also made undeniable the enduring reality of racism and the limits of fact-checking in an age of disinformation.

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Canada’s ethnic and racial wage gap rivals it’s gender gap — but gets a fraction of the policy attention

Canada has spent decades confronting the gender pay gap, enacting legislation and building public awareness around the fact that women earn about 84 cents for every dollar men make. That gap persists because of systemic barriers, and is wider for women who face multiple forms of discrimination.

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What can whale films tell us about Marineland’s threatened belugas and dolphins?

The fate of 30 captive beluga whales and four dolphins hangs in the balance as Marineland in Niagara Falls awaits final approval for an export permit from the Canadian government. Marineland has threatened to euthanize the whales, as they can no longer afford to feed and house them since shuttering…

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Three ways Canada can navigate an increasingly erratic and belligerent United States

The United States Supreme Court recently struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs imposed under the country’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The court stated that the law, intended for national emergencies, does not grant the government the authority to impose tariffs.

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Why Stephen Colbert is right about the ‘equal time’ rule, despite warnings from the FCC

Talk show host Stephen Colbert made headlines on Feb. 17, 2026, when he wrapped a network statement in a dog-waste bag and tossed it in the trash.

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What is ‘Edge AI’? What does it do and what can be gained from this alternative to cloud computing?

“Edge computing”, which was initially developed to make big data processing faster and more secure, has now been combined with AI to offer a cloud-free solution. Everyday connected appliances from dishwashers to cars or smartphones are examples of how this real-time data processing technology operates by letting machine learning models run…

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