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Why street art doesn’t always make a city better

For years, our understanding of street art has been incomplete. Some people reduce it to decoration, a tourist attraction, or a form of urban cosmetic enhancement. Others eye it suspiciously, viewing it as an unsolicited aesthetic imposition. But neither of these positions tells the whole story.

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Hip dips: what are they and can you really get rid of them?

Hip dips are having a moment. The perfectly normal indentations that sit below your hips on the outer thigh have become the latest body feature to be scrutinised, fixed and agonised over on social media. But what are they? Can you actually get rid of them? And should you even…

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‘Lime bike leg’: what doctors are seeing in ebike crashes

A man in his 30s arrived at the Royal London Major Trauma Centre after what sounded like a relatively minor cycling accident. He had been riding a shared ebike when he lost control and fell. By the time I met him, scans had revealed a complex fracture around his ankle…

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Tightening NDIS eligibility will disproportionately affect women – in more ways than you’d expect

Public hearings are underway this week to highlight the impacts of the government’s new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) bill to tighten eligibility and save costs.

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RISING’s international dance highlights reveal the beauty and brutality of being human

This year’s RISING festival in Melbourne, the host of the newly established Australian Dance Biennale, was brimming with local and interstate dance shows.

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Demolishing homes after climate disasters can be devastating. Here’s how we reused precious materials

Following the devastating Northern Rivers floods in New South Wales in 2022, roughly 14,000 truckloads of water-damaged materials were sent to landfill.

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How Silicon Valley misreads The Lord of the Rings

On October 30 2025, the Department of Homeland Security in the United States posted a Tolkien meme. It pictured Merry Brandybuck – one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s four hobbit protagonists in The Lord of the Rings – speaking to another hobbit Pippin at the climax of The Two Towers, the second…

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Do mandatory body cameras actually reduce police brutality?

In early June, an ABC Four Corners investigation into NSW Police showcased first-hand accounts of police using excessive force against the public.

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The government is reforming child support. Here’s what’s changing – and what’s been missed

Many parts of the federal government’s budget have been hotly debated in recent weeks.

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Is milk good or bad for kids? And how much dairy do they actually need?

If you follow child nutrition content on social media, you’re bound to be confused when it comes to giving your kids milk. Some influencers claim you should avoid milk at all costs, for fear it could cause asthma, allergies or digestive problems. Others say your child probably isn’t drinking enough.

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A meteorite impact may have once rained gold on Western Australia – new study

We’re used to a lot of different natural things falling out of the sky. These can include snow, rain, and sometimes even frogs (yes, really). All of these relate to weather phenomena.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: pollster Simon Welsh on One Nation’s rise and Victoria’s ‘very messy’ election

Yet another poll and yet another result showing Pauline Hanson’s One Nation ahead of Labor at a national level, with the Coalition way behind.

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How can we make buildings more resilient before – and after – earthquakes? We put one solution to the test

This week’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble.

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The market moves before Trump posts

It has long been the case that when a US President speaks, financial markets react.

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Astronomers found a galaxy in the throes of death – and they know what’s killing it

At the start of cosmic history, galaxies were big clouds of gas, and they grew by turning that gas into stars. If a galaxy runs out of gas, it will stop forming stars and die.

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The ‘Divine Ponytail’, drug scandals and the OJ Simpson chase: looking back at the 1994 US World Cup

As the world prepares for the 2026 FIFA World Cup – to be hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States throughout June and July – many sports fans have been looking back to 1994, the last time it was hosted in North America.

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The Social Security trust fund will run dry in 2032 – what that means for retirees and workers who hope to retire

Every year, the panel overseeing the trust fund for Social Security and Medicare publishes its annual financial report. And every year, its members make clear that the programs’ reserves will be exhausted by the time Gen X retires – meaning they will no longer be able to pay full scheduled…

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Breathing two-billion-year old air: MONA’s Hard Core is an artistic journey through deep time

The structure of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is cut directly into Hobart’s Berriedale Peninsula – walls carved from roughly 250-million-year-old sandstone that formed when Tasmania was still part of the supercontinent Gondwana.

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I don’t want to kill the spiders, ants and other bugs in my house. What should I do instead?

We’ve all been there: just as you’re about to fall asleep, you notice a huntsman spider on the ceiling. Or you walk into your kitchen and find a long trail of ants snaking into your pantry.

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Does the body really ‘keep the score’ after trauma? How the debunked idea of ‘repressed memories’ is making a comeback

Have you heard someone say online or in casual conversation, when responding to someone’s struggles, “well, the body keeps the score”?

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Reform is hard. Albanese and Chalmers need to stay the course

Do Australians really want reform? It’s a reasonable question to ask as the Albanese government weathers trenchant attacks on its recent federal budget.

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Climate change has already made Australians in one state much poorer, and more’s to come

The world’s hottest years over the past decade have coincided with stagnant economic productivity, rising prices and geopolitical instability.

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As SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic plan blockbuster launches, will it make AI giants more accountable?

A huge change is coming to the world’s booming artificial intelligence (AI) sector.

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Greater international co-operation is needed to achieve the UN’s global forest goals

While many people tacitly appreciate the intrinsic and aesthetic value forests and trees provide, governments and policymakers have struggled to take firm action to protect the Earth’s forests.

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Glucosamine supplements may speed memory loss from Alzheimer’s, new research shows

People with Alzheimer’s disease who took the common supplement glucosamine were 25% more likely to die within five years than those who didn’t. That’s the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal Nature Metabolism.

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