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A budget with a bundle of reforms in a time of ‘extreme uncertainty’

This year’s budget combines fiscal policy – taxes and spending – with a heavy focus on better regulation.

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At a glance: budget 2026

The federal budget takes some big swings, with reforms to capital gains tax and negative gearing. There are also major spends on health, fuel and infrastructure.

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Iodine deficiency is creeping back. Vegans, vegetarians and pregnant women are most at risk

Iodine deficiency is often seen as a problem of the past, but this isn’t entirely true. During the 20th century, the iodisation of salt became one of the most effective public health interventions for preventing conditions caused by a lack of this mineral, including goiter (enlargement of the thyroid gland)…

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Get ready for a budget slowdown. But Chalmers insists we won’t see a recession

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called his budget “ambitious in the face of adversity”.

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Budget 2026 brings a small tax handout to workers and a crackdown on tax breaks and trusts

All working Australians will receive a permanent $250 “tax offset” from next year in Treasurer Jim Chalmers fifth budget, which also cracks down on tax breaks for housing investors and trusts.

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Albanese government uses its political dominance to implement a ‘Labor’ agenda

The tilt of this budget was, when you think about it, predictable.

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What is driving Europe’s pro-Russian supporters and their stance on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict?

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sparked the most significant military conflict in Europe’s post-Second World War history. While European public opinion is overwhelmingly pro-Ukrainian, significant segments of Europe’s population hold ambivalent or even outright pro-Russian positions. As public support is key to providing military and financial assistance…

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‘Poverty porn’: the moral dilemma behind MrBeast’s billion-dollar empire

Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, runs the most subscribed-to YouTube channel in the world (with 484 million subscribers) and has an estimated net worth of US$2.6 billion.

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Why is the US so obsessed with controlling Cuba?

For months, US President Donald Trump has been fixated on Cuba. He’s issued threats and imposed additional sanctions on the island. The US military has conducted dozens of intelligence-gathering flights off the coast in recent weeks, suggesting a prelude to an invasion.

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Feeling the pinch? Here are some ways to find savings – and even fight inflation

Do you ever feel like everything is getting more expensive, everywhere, all at once? You’re not alone.

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Hantavirus is very different to COVID. Here’s why the ‘Andes virus’ won’t cause the next pandemic

For many people, news of a virus outbreak on a cruise ship immediately brings back memories of COVID spreading when the Ruby Princess docked in Sydney in March 2020. Of the passengers and crew who disembarked, 575 had COVID. The virus then spread to the community.

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NZ’s costly fees-free scheme did little to widen access to tertiary education – new study

The government’s decision to scrap the one-year fees-free tertiary scheme in this month’s Budget will be contentious. Some will see it as a sensible saving, others as another blow to students facing high living costs.

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What is a ‘digital detox’ and will it make me healthier?

Are you surrounded by screens?

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In an ant colony, the queen isn’t in charge. So who is?

Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint, find a shortcut through an unfamiliar city without a map, or govern a large organisation with no leaders and no meetings.

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Like solar, most of the first home battery subsidies went to the wealthy. We need a fairer approach

Australia is in the grip of a record-breaking battery rush.

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7 films to help you understand Iranian women’s fight for freedom

For women in Iran, life changed dramatically after the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

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Siri Hustvedt’s powerful memoir of losing her husband Paul Auster will make you cry

“Divested of others, what exactly is a self?” This question occurs halfway through Siri Hustvedt’s extraordinary new grief memoir, Ghost Stories. By my reading, it propels the whole book.

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We found hundreds of huge ancient mass graves hidden in the Sahara desert

We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan.

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Help! I’m almost finished school but don’t know what I want to do next

As Year 12 students pass the halfway point of their final year, the question of “what next?” can start to loom large. Some students have a clear plan: a course they want to get into, a trade they want to start, or a gap year they are saving for.

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Specialist doctors are charging too much. 4 options to rein in excessive fees

Australia’s Health Minister Mark Butler has declared reducing specialists’ fees will be his next key focus of health policy reform.

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How the federal budget became unlocked – and allowed the digital world in

As Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepares to hand down another federal budget, attention is once again turning to one of Canberra’s most tightly controlled democratic traditions: the budget lock-up.

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In this year’s budget, Chalmers has to keep a lid on spending – or risk stoking inflation

Crafting a federal budget is never easy. Tonight’s budget is harder than most.

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Trump-Xi summit will be no ‘Nixon in China’ moment – that they are talking is enough for now

Meetings between Chinese and American leaders are not exactly routine, but few are historically groundbreaking.

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Conspiracy theories: do 300,000 Kiwis really believe Canada is building an army of mutant super-raccoons?

Four percent of Americans – roughly 12 million people – believe that “lizard people” secretly control the Earth. At least, that was the finding of an infamous 2013 public opinion survey.

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Racial gerrymandering may be here to stay

The outrage was swift and severe when the U.S. Supreme Court, by an ideologically divided 6-3 vote, recently struck down Louisiana’s majority Black congressional district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Critics lambasted the court for gutting the Voting Rights Act, the federal law that had until recently garnered strong bipartisan…

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