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The effectiveness of private prisons is debatable – why does Australia have so many?

This month, the South Australian government extended a contract with a private firm to manage a men’s prison in Adelaide for another five years, despite a damning report about its operations.

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What’s the risk of infection from manicures and pedicures?

Manicures and pedicures are big business, with the global nail care market estimated to be worth US$23.5 billion.

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NZ is criminalising sexualised deepfakes – banning apps that make them should be next

New Zealand is changing the law to make sexualised deepfakes a crime. But this alone may not be enough to counter the rise in AI-generated fake sexual material.

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Don’t throw it out! How to cook using ingredients too good to waste

Australians are feeling the pressure of rising grocery prices. At the same time, we throw away huge amounts of perfectly edible food every year.

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Indigenous Australians were the world’s first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk

I’m a proud Yorta Yorta and Barapa Barapa man, an Indigenous astronomer and a trainee ecologist.

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The Making of One Nation: podcast out now

From a fish and chip shop in regional Queensland to the heart of Australian politics: our new podcast series tracks the unlikely story of the country’s most controversial minor party.

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Community radio drives $153m into Australian music – new study

Australia’s community radio sector contributes an estimated A$153.1 million to the country’s struggling music industries each year.

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Why Bluey coins are worth big ‘dollarbucks’ – far more than the silver they’re made from

If you tried to buy any of the new A$2 Bluey collectable coins online when they went up for sale earlier this month, you probably saw the same message thousands of others did:

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Ebola strain spreading in Congo and Uganda has no approved vaccine

As a deadly outbreak of Ebola virus spreads in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on May 17, 2026, that it is transferring “a small number of Americans” who were in Congo and who were exposed to the virus.

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How to get more local sardines on Australian plates – a win for nutrition, local fishers and the environment

Australians should be eating more healthy and nutritious foods – but that likely won’t happen unless they’re also cheap, easy to transport and store, and simple to prepare.

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The hantavirus outbreak is the warning the world needs to improve pandemic preparedness

The latest case of a Canadian passenger testing positive shows the hantavirus outbreak isn’t over yet. We can probably expect more cases, given the long incubation period of this infection.

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Battleground state with few combatants – why Pennsylvania’s primaries lack competition

At a time when hard-fought primary elections in Georgia, Kentucky and Indiana and Ohio are making national news, perennial battleground Pennsylvania seems to be nodding through one of the sleepiest primary seasons in a long time.

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Compulsory voting has boosted turnout in Australia – is it time NZ tried it?

New Zealand has a voter turnout problem. Although enrolment is compulsory for all eligible voters, casting a ballot is optional. And the number of people voting has been falling in both general and local body elections since the 1980s.

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Periodic Bitch: PMDD may be a ‘life curse’, but this memoir reveals its stigma as the real horror

“Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick,” writes Susan Sontag in the opening of her landmark book Illness as Metaphor. Although we prefer to use only our “good passports”, she says, sooner or later each of us…

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Getting the kids out the door for school drives me bananas. How can we make mornings calmer?

Getting the kids out the door for school can feel like herding cats in the rain. Just when one child is ready, another can’t find a shoe, someone remembers homework, and someone else starts crying because they want more breakfast.

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A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop

The pre-print website arXiv has announced that researchers who put their names to papers which included errors clearly generated by artificial intelligence (AI) will face a year-long ban and ongoing restrictions.

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Most mainstream films already use AI. The new Oscars rules won’t stop that

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has adjusted the eligibility criteria for films vying for Oscars from 2027 onward.

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To improve children’s mental health, start by supporting their parents

Many Australian children struggle with their mental health. Recent data shows around one in seven children (13.9%) aged 4–17 experiences a diagnosable mental illness.

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NATO would survive a US withdrawal. But what kind of alliance would it become?

As NATO counts down to its annual summit in Turkey in July, the alliance is facing perhaps the biggest challenge in its history – what a potential future without the United States, or US security guarantees, would look like.

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The tax changes in the budget only scratch the surface. Here are 4 reforms Australia needs next

Is Australia finally getting serious about tax reform, or just testing the waters?

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Hurricane forecasts have improved dramatically, saving lives, but federal cuts threaten to stretch NOAA to the breaking point

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1, and while a developing El Niño might result in a tamer season than in the past few years, all it takes is one big storm hitting a populated area to make it a bad hurricane season.

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Chelsea football club must find its feet after a very expensive Premier League season

Chelsea FC losing the 2026 FA Cup final 1-0 to Manchester City will have been disappointing for the club’s fans. But perhaps the result was not hugely surprising, as the London club hasn’t had a brilliant season on the pitch.

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Why indie sleaze feels nostalgic – even for people who never lived it

Scrolling through social media, it feels as though “indie sleaze” never went away. Grainy flash photography, smudged eyeliner and a soundtrack of early 2000s indie music are once again dominating feeds.

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Ancient tooth proteins suggest ‘Homo erectus’ may have left a genetic legacy in people today

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs. Each species of human relative (hominin) was a neat, single branch.

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Drug shortages continue to be a problem in the UK – yet strengthening supply chains alone won’t solve this issue

The UK continues to experience shortages of many common prescription drugs, despite efforts to strengthen supply chains.

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