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No room for the timid: setting Australia’s 2035 emissions target is a daring tightrope act

Can the Albanese government strike the right balance: set a climate policy that’s strong enough to work, but isn’t branded ...

Kids with ‘developmental delay’ will be diverted from the NDIS. But how do you know if your child is delayed?

Developmental delay might mean a toddler isn’t using sentences when expected, or not meeting milestones such as walking or ...

Medicinal cannabis is most often prescribed for pain, anxiety and sleep. Here’s what the evidence says

Medicinal cannabis use has increased rapidly in Australia over recent years. But there’s limited evidence it helps the ...

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction

In Desolation, inexplicable elements, often in the form of coincidence, disrupt and distort causal chains. Dreams and ...

Hurricane Katrina: 3 painful lessons for emergency management are increasingly important 20 years later

The 2005 hurricane was a disaster made worse by a lack of coordination and communication among governments and emergency ...

The rise of humanlike chatbots detracts from developing AI for the human good

Nonetheless, AI companies have pushed on, building systems that exploit these biases. The justification is that this makes ...

5 million small business employees now have a right to disconnect from work unless it’s ‘unreasonable’. What does that mean?

Whether you’re a worker wanting to switch off at home, or a small business owner with last-minute roster changes, here’s how ...

Australia has banned 3 ‘forever chemicals’ – but Europe wants to ban all 14,000 as a precaution

It’s taken years for Australia to ban three types of forever chemicals. But Europe plans to ban thousands of these chemicals ...

The Liberals used to be the party for women – then John Howard came along

The Liberal Party used to lead the way on female representation and socially liberal policies. History shows us where the ...

Orwell’s opposition to totalitarianism was rooted in his support for freeing workers from poverty and exploitation

George Orwell, the author of two classic anti-totalitarian, pro-freedom novels from the 1940s, was a democratic socialist who ...

Rural women are at a higher risk of violence − and less likely to get help

Research shows that rural women in the US are more likely to be killed by their current or former male partners compared to ...