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Do whales fart?
A few years ago, 10-year-old Guy was driving along the Australian coast when he saw whales, spouting water up into...
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Expert Q&A: why did so many buildings collapse in Venezuela’s...
More than 500 people have been killed in Venezuela following powerful back-to-back earthquakes, with many more injured. Rescue teams have...
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Israel’s ‘campaign between the wars’: How strategy to contain Iran...
A lot hangs on whether the United States can compel Israel to cease operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. After all,...
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Aid is on the way after Venezuela’s earthquakes, but it’s...
For a country already facing serious humanitarian needs, the two powerful earthquakes that shook Venezuela on June 24, 2026, have...
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Cracks in European unity emerge over Ukraine and security
When Donald Trump signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Versailles on June 17 after the G7 summit, it dominated...
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Grattan on Friday: Now’s the time to renovate multiculturalism, elevating...
The Lowy Institute’s annual poll, released this week, carried two important signals for politicians and other policy makers about Australian...
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Underlying inflation is still too high, keeping another interest rate...
After a long run of high inflation numbers and interest rate hikes, mortgage holders could be forgiven for hoping rate...
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Victoria claims to have stopped native logging. So why is...
There is ongoing turmoil in the native forest logging industry, as revealed in the ABC’s Four Corners program that aired...
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Ten years after the referendum, how Brexit could have been...
A ten-year anniversary is a good opportunity to look back on an important decision. Whether that was a marriage, a...
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Antipodean prose poetry is coming into its own
Prose poetry had a slow start in Australia. Long after 19th-century French poets, such as Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Baudelaire and...