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Australia’s fuel discount is ending. What does this mean for petrol prices?

Australians are bracing for more pain at the fuel pump, with the federal government set to scrap its fuel excise discount this Sunday.

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Wildfires, wombats and wake-up calls – what to read, rethink and act on this week

This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

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Grattan on Friday: A reluctant Albanese is under pressure over telehealth for VAD

At last week’s Labor conference, which was totally under the prime minister’s thumb, only one issue was contested on the floor: support for the use of telehealth in voluntary assisted dying care.

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Australia’s online watchdog is taking messaging app Telegram to court over ‘pro-terrorist’ posts

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Closing the Gap is failing, yet again. Is it time we do away with it altogether?

Every year, the Productivity Commission reports on the progress state and federal governments are making towards closing the gap in the gross inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous lives.

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As AI reshapes newsrooms, leading media outlets are charting different paths for its use

A labor dispute erupted at The Guardian’s London headquarters in December 2024, with nearly 500 journalists going on strike to protest the proposed sale of the Guardian-owned Observer.

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Mail-in voting: Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court to revive executive order setting limits, rejected by lower courts

John Jones knows about voter suppression. Currently the president of Dickinson College, Jones – nominated in 2002 by President George W. Bush and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate – served for almost two decades as a federal court judge.

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Seven climate-friendly ways to transform your home

This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

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Strange Health wins best health and wellbeing podcast award

Strange Health, a video podcast produced by The Conversation UK, has won the best health and wellbeing award at the Publisher Podcast Awards 2026.

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5 lessons from 20 years of climate surveys: Political party matters, but it doesn’t explain everything

Why would a young Republican back solar power but reject a carbon tax? Why would two Democrats agree that climate change is real but split over a policy that would charge households more if they exceeded a monthly limit on energy use?

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What Ed Miliband’s appointment does and doesn’t mean for the UK’s foreign policy

The route to 10 Downing Street is often fairly parochial, requiring knowledge and experience of local or national issues, rather than international ones. Andy Burnham has been involved in politics for a quarter of a century. But his variety of posts gives us little indication of how he is likely…

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How was the first language formed?

Nine-year-old Eva was watching an episode of the children’s show Horrible Histories about the stone age recently when a question popped into her head. The cave men were speaking a broken form of English, but Eva thought that didn’t sound right and she wondered: how was the first language formed?

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There are already 16,000 satellites in Earth’s orbit. How will we manage the next 100,000?

Earth’s orbit is getting crowded.

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African entrepreneurs operate in tough conditions: the skills they’ve honed could be useful to others

When people talk about entrepreneurship in Africa, the conversation usually starts with everything that’s missing. Limited funding. Weak infrastructure. Poor internet connectivity. Unreliable electricity. Bureaucracy. Corruption.

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The rise of Yemeni coffeehouses in Dearborn and beyond

The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud, declared the city the “Coffee Capital of America” in November 2025.

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Andy Burnham promised to change Greater Manchester. Almost ten years on, how did he do?

Almost ten years ago – just weeks before he was elected as Greater Manchester’s first metro-mayor – I sat down with Andy Burnham and interviewed him for The Conversation.

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Manchester – the city powering Andy Burnham, the UK’s incoming prime minister

Three months ago, Andy Burnham’s desk was filled with the business of running Greater Manchester. Buses. Housing. Policing. This mayoral region in the north of England is home to 3 million people and Burnham, a former minister in the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, has been its…

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Why people put a wooden spoon across a boiling pot; the science behind the kitchen hack

A wooden spoon can briefly stop pots from boiling over by bursting bubbles. This kitchen hack works because wood is a porous material that releases trapped air. However, the spoon quickly becomes saturated and loses its effectiveness over time. Ingredients like starches and proteins cause rapid bubbling and overflow in…

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There’s one reason why so many cold and flu tablets don’t actually work

You’ve got the sniffles and your nose is running like a tap. The tissues feel like sandpaper.

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Young people are being exposed to gambling too early. Here’s what we can do

Our country has a gambling problem.

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More pharmacists will be able to vaccinate children under 5. Here’s what you need to know

More children under five years old should be able to be vaccinated in pharmacies from January 2027 under a range of measures designed to boost vaccine coverage announced in this year’s federal budget.

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Is porn actually addictive? The science isn’t straightforward

Porn is a topic we tend to avoid talking about – whether it be at school, work or around the dinner table.

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What are peptides? And why am I hearing so much about them?

Peptide may not yet be the 2026 Oxford Word of the Year, but it must surely be in the running.

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A journalist’s journey through faith and identity

From time to time, The Conversation features interesting work our editors are involved in. Kalpana Jain, senior religion/ethics editor and director of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative at The Conversation, spent part of 2026 as a visiting researcher at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia – Malaysia’s national university. The piece below is…

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Climate law expert: Europe’s deadly heatwaves belong in court

Europe is in the middle of something that no longer feels exceptional. Temperature records have broken across the continent, hitting 40°C and above in Germany, France, Hungary and Spain – and costing hundreds of lives.

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