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Why social media bans won’t make parenting teenagers easier

Countries around the world, including France, Spain and Malaysia, are planning to follow Australia in enacting a ban on young people using social media. And now the UK is considering moving in the same direction.

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Australia has plenty of diesel for now. But running out could upend our economy

It’s been hard to ignore growing fears of a looming fuel shortage in Australia. Conflict in the Middle East has led to what the International Energy Agency has called the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market”.

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Prosecco makers lose out as Australia seals EU free-trade deal after 8 long years of talks

Nearly eight years ago Australia and the European Union (EU) launched trade negotiations. Finally, today Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and EU President Ursula von der Leyen signed an agreement in Canberra.

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Antipathy no more: diplomacy wins out as Australia and the EU sign a free trade agreement

After an often acrimonious relationship over more than half a century, Australia and the European Union have signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). During a visit to Canberra by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the FTA has come to fruition after many years of negotiations and stalled talks.…

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Australia has dedicated more than 20% of its land to conservation but not where it matters most

On paper, Australia is a conservation success story.

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Cuba has been in Washington’s crosshairs for decades. The Iran war is raising the stakes

On March 16, Cuba’s national electricity grid collapsed for the third time in four months, plunging 10 million people into more than 29 hours of darkness. Hospitals struggled to keep generators running, water pumps shut down and refuse piled up on streets where collection trucks have sat empty for weeks.

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What is ‘air hunger’? And can it be treated?

Can you hold your breath until you’re almost bursting to take another breath in? This urgent feeling that you need to get more air is called “air hunger”.

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How and why NZ could be drawn into the Iran war – and the high stakes involved

After three weeks of war in the Middle East, it is increasingly hard to predict what might happen next. But the prospect of a prolonged conflict has obvious and serious implications for New Zealand.

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Australia has set new expectations for AI data centres – they should serve the public

Yesterday, the Australian federal government released new expectations for data centres and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

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What the coming El Niño climate pattern means for NZ in a warming world

After the planet’s 11 hottest years on record, scientists are warning the return of an El Niño climate pattern could push global temperatures even higher.

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‘I lost hope in humanity, but I now call myself human’: what refugees told us about settling in regional Australia

While most Australians embrace multiculturalism, migration remains a contentious topic in Australia. Negative opinions, often unsubstantiated, are regularly aired in public debate.

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Community sport volunteers need better support to keep children safe from abuse - new research

Child abuse in Australian sport can happen to anyone, in any sport, at any level – during practice, in competition and online.

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We’re asking the wrong questions about women’s athletic performance

In 1992, an article in Nature asked, “Will women soon outrun men?” The question was sparked by a series of remarkable performances by women, including Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 100-metre world record in 1988.

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Yorta Yorta Elder Wayne Atkinson reflects on a life of activism and the quest for justice

Beyond the Meeting of the Waters is the life story of academic, activist and Yorta Yorta man Wayne Atkinson, which he has co-authored with Catherine Guinness. It recognises the long history of Aboriginal activism by Atkinson’s people – a fight for land justice and self-determination that will continue beyond him.

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Mary Shelley is often underestimated on screen – does The Bride! finally get her right?

Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word.

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Oil reserves last for weeks. Solar panels last for decades

Oil and gas prices are shooting up as war in the Middle East cuts down the supply of fossil fuels available, in what has been described as “the largest supply disruption in the history of oil markets”.

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Hospital audit finds siblings of children with serious conditions are overlooked, lack support

Imagine spending years living on the edge of your family’s story.

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How reducing ‘just in case’ purchases can help avoid empty shelves and fuel bowsers

If you’ve topped up your tank at a petrol station recently, did it feel like you were “panic buying”? Or did it feel more like “I’d better buy some, just in case”?

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Victorian teachers are on strike for the first time in 13 years – it’s about more than pay

Victorian public school teachers are walking off the job today. Tens of thousands of school staff, including support staff and principals, are expected to strike.

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Half of psychologists assessing for ADHD don’t follow the diagnostic guidelines, new study shows

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition that develops during childhood and affects 6–10% of kids and 2–6% of adults.

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Australia’s forests are finally doing better — but ‘underwater bushfires’ hit oceans hard

Good rainfall across much of Australia in the past year has kept the vegetation green and rivers flowing. For the fifth year in a row, our national environment scorecard for Australia’s landscapes in 2025 rated them as “above average”.

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Psychological toll of betrayal trauma may help explain why women kept silent for decades after alleged abuse by civil rights icon Cesar Chavez

Multiple women told The New York Times that Mexican American civil rights hero Cesar Chavez assaulted them decades ago, including when some were just girls, one as young as 13. Over their multiyear investigation, published on March 18, 2026, journalists at the paper found “extensive evidence” of that abuse by…

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Over 400 million barrels will be added to the oil market soon – what are strategic reserves and what can they do?

In the second week of the Iran war – with the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, cutting off shipping of 20% of the world’s oil supply – the International Energy Agency announced the largest release of strategic oil reserves in history. Thirty-two countries will sell a combined 412 million barrels…

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Canada’s migratory caribou are under threat. Will we act before it’s too late?

Delegates are gathering in Campo Grande, Brazil, for the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) on the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals. The meeting aims to address growing threats to migratory animals — from birds and whales to large land mammals.

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How the words that Iran and America use about each other paved the way for conflict

The conflict between the US – and its partner Israel – and Iran was nearly half a century in the making. Many explanations have been offered: strategic miscalculation, nuclear brinkmanship, regional rivalry and the failure of deterrence of Iran’s nuclear programme. But there is also the nature of the language…

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