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Violence against women and children is deeply connected. Three ways to break the patterns

In South Africa, intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women, and it is pervasive. According to the National Gender-Based Violence Prevalence Study, 24% of women aged 18 and older have experienced physical or sexual violence by a partner or spouse.

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Nothing much comes of nothing in Belvoir’s new version of King Lear

Since its first performance in 1606, King Lear has earned its place as Shakespeare’s largest and most revered powerhouse tragedy.

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Victoria will force home sellers to reveal their reserve price. Will other states follow?

If you’ve ever tried to buy a home at auction, you know how frustrating it can be to show up thinking you can afford a particular property, only for it to sell for far more than the advertised price.

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Environment and health: a connection that remains unseen in the Climate Change Conferences

In a conversation with Luciana Julião, environment editor at The Conversation Brasil, during COP30 in Belém, Fiocruz researcher and environmental health specialist Sandra Hacon explained why the integration of climate, environment and health has guided her research for two decades. Hacon has a background in biology and ecology and is…

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Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent

The government’s ban on puberty blockers for gender-affirming care marks a troubling shift: politicians are now making decisions that should sit with clinicians working alongside young people and their families or whānau.

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Australia is about to ban under-16s from social media. Here’s what kids can do right now to prepare

If you’re a young person in Australia, you probably know new social media rules are coming in December. If you and your friends are under 16, you might be locked out of the social media spaces you use every day.

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Here’s what Black Friday sales shopping does to your brain

Every November, Black Friday arrives with big claims of massive savings and “one-day-only” deals. We are bombarded with offers that seem too good to pass up. But beneath all this lies something far more strategic.

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Airbrushing and exhortations: Ita Buttrose reflects on her life in media – well, some of it

Ita Buttrose is a consequential figure in Australian public life for many reasons, most of all because of her work as a journalist, so it is odd that only one chapter of her memoir Unapologetically Ita is wholly devoted to this.

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The world’s new US$125 billion rainforest trust fund revives a 1990s idea – and shows its limits

A US$125 billion rainforest fund is being hailed as a flagship announcement from the 2025 UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The goal is noble: this is essentially a trust fund that will pay countries to keep their tropical forests standing. But its core idea was tried 30 years ago,…

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Engineered microbes could tackle climate change – if we ensure it’s done safely

As the climate crisis accelerates, there’s a desperate need to rapidly reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, both by slashing emissions and by pulling carbon out of the air.

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Did Plunket founder Truby King really believe in eugenics? History isn’t that simple

Four days after Plunket founder Sir Truby King’s funeral on February 12 1938, the Auckland Weekly News printed a montage of photographs showing the scale of the event.

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Cinema’s most notorious film: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò turns 50

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom is turning 50. One of cinema’s most notorious films, Salò continues to be approached with trepidation – if approached at all.

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The ‘Bazball’ game style has revolutionised English cricket. Australia should be nervous

The Ashes is one of cricket’s fiercest rivalries and dates back to 1882, when England lost to Australia for the first time on home soil.

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What’s the difference between a home birth and a free birth?

If you’re looking on social media for information and experiences of giving birth at home, you’ll find widely varied content.

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Friday essay: how ASIO spied on Australia’s Greek migrants during the Cold War

At the height of the Cold War, the activities of Greek migrants who had arrived in Australia after the second world war saw the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) take notice.

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A new study shows little kids who count on their fingers do better at maths

If you ask a small child a simple maths question, such as 4+2, they may count on their fingers to work it out.

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What do we know about climate change? How do we know it? And where are we headed?

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (sometimes referred to as COP30) is taking place in Brazil.

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How China cleaned up its air pollution – and what that meant for the climate

Delhi: 442. Lahore: 334. Beijing: 16. These are the levels of PM 2.5, one of the principle measures for air pollution, on November 19.

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‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers

Autonomous self-driving cars and taxis are already on the roads of San Francisco and Beijing. There are also autonomous tram-style services around Oxfordshire and Dubai.

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The Holodomor on screen: how cinema shapes memory of Ukraine’s famine

The famine of 1932-33, known as the Holodomor, claimed the lives of millions of people in Ukraine. It was not due to climactic failure, but caused by the confiscation of grain, punitively targeted by the Soviet government and its leader Joseph Stalin at Ukrainians.

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Streamlining what universities offer could backfire for disadvantaged students

The government’s vision for higher education in England, set out in a recent policy paper, includes some changes that will benefit students from poorer backgrounds.

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Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two

The UK government’s latest proposals on asylum rest on an incorrect premise. In announcing them, home secretary Shabana Mahmood argued that “illegal migration is tearing our country apart”. But asylum-seeking is not illegal migration.

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Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits

In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival those of many workers in the UK today.

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Behind the scenes in Belém: The Conversation’s report from Brazil’s UN climate summit

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

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