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Time’s running out to book Virgin flight credits before June 30. What are your refund rights?

Virgin Australia customers with around A$90 million in unused flight credits from COVID cancellations between April 2020 and July 2022 have just one week left to spend those credits – or lose the money.

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Antipodean prose poetry is coming into its own

Prose poetry had a slow start in Australia. Long after 19th-century French poets, such as Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, wrote groundbreaking works of prose poetry, including Gaspard de la nuit (1842), Le Spleen de Paris (1869) and Illuminations (1886), Australian poets remained suspicious of the form.

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Australia has already spent over $100 million dealing with Varroa mite. Here’s what we can do next

The honeybee mite, Varroa destructor, finally breached Australia’s biosecurity defences four years ago, and is here to stay. Even more concerning, our standard treatments – such as specialised pesticides – are already failing.

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Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic could work for addiction too – and we finally know how

For many people, the thought of a tasty burger or a cold pint of beer conjures up a vivid mental image and drives behaviour.

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An elite fighting unit of gay lovers – the Theban Sacred Band in ancient Greece

In 1880, in the village of Chaironeia in central Greece, Greek archaeologists made a remarkable find: a largely undisturbed mass grave of 254 ancient soldiers, some of whom are buried arm in arm.

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Can we cure asthma? Yes, and we have a plan

Asthma is conventionally viewed as “treatable but incurable”. In other words, we can manage its symptoms but not reverse the underlying condition.

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Craving something for dinner? Your mind may be ‘tasting’ food before you eat it

We’ve all made that mistake. A quick trip to the supermarket on an empty stomach ends with a trolley full of fatty, sugary treats that seemed impossible to resist at the time.

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‘Too pretty to do math’? Here’s the real reason girls aren’t choosing to study maths

The t-shirt is yellow, 100% cotton and meant for “everyday wear”. Across the front, it declares in italic script, “I’m too pretty to do math”.

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Today’s space race could turn fatal if we don’t agree on new rules

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen had an emotional message before he and three colleagues set off for the Moon earlier this year on the Artemis II mission: “We go for all humanity”.

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Victoria wants daily ‘device-free’ time in high schools. What works best for learning?

Victorian high schools have been asked to include “planned device-free time” in their learning from term 1 2027.

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Why the whole country will be watching Victoria’s November state election

A 12-year-old government with a premier under siege. An untried opposition that has weathered multiple scandals and leadership changes. And a right-wing populist party on the march among disaffected voters. With all this in play, Victoria’s November state election is shaping up to be one of the most significant in…

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The new price gouging law starts on July 1. Can it rein in Coles and Woolworths?

Australia’s new law on supermarket “price gouging” (also known as excessive pricing) starts on July 1 2026.

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How AI prompting turned writerly description into an everyday skill

You are sitting at your computer, interacting with a generative AI model like ChatGPT Image or Midjourney. You have a distinct picture in your mind, and you begin with a simple, general prompt: a chair in a cozy room.

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Canada’s AI strategy must reckon with the environmental implications of data centres

When Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation went to court recently to challenge Alberta’s handling of the proposed Wonder Valley AI Data Centre Park project, the dispute underscored a question that is increasingly difficult to ignore: What does Canada’s artificial intelligence future require from land, water and energy systems?

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Plant-based products need to be easier to find and consistently affordable for shoppers

There is strong evidence that transitioning from animal to more plant-based diets could improve human and planetary health, but progress has been slow. This is partly due to a misunderstanding of what drives the behaviour of individuals and organizations alike.

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The Breadwinner: Comedy doesn’t need flawless dads, but we do need competent ones

Nate Bargatze’s new family comedy The Breadwinner centres on a successful car salesman who is left to care for his three daughters while his wife pursues a business opportunity abroad.

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With Iran and the US signing a peace deal, where does that leave Benjamin Netanyahu?

The peace deal between the US and Iran calls not just for the cessation of hostilities between the two countries, but also between Israel and Hezbollah. It also calls for Lebanese territorial integrity and sovereignty to be respected.

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Can Africa survive the global aid squeeze? Yes, but it will take financial discipline

Africa faces declining aid, rising debt, climate pressure and a weakening global order. Official development assistance, the technical term for foreign aid, fell by 23.1% in 2025, the largest annual contraction on record. It’s projected to decline by a further 5.8% in 2026, before accounting for strain from the current…

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Vaccine hesitancy can’t be boiled down to a single factor: what we learnt in South Africa and Brazil

Vaccine uptake has been declining in Brazil and South Africa over the last decade. This decline has reversed important gains in protecting children against vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, polio, diphtheria and whooping cough.

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The first case of H5N1 bird flu in Australia has been confirmed. What does this mean?

On Saturday, a suspected case of deadly H5 bird flu, also known as high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, was confirmed in a brown skua.

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Secrets of Stonehenge and other ancient sites unlocked for the summer solstice

The story of Stonehenge starts around 5,000 years ago. But its famous old stones, some of which were transported all the way from south-west Wales to Wiltshire, are just part of the story.

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Andy Burnham is known as the ‘king of the north’. Could he become the UK’s next prime minister?

Andy Burnham has just won what might be the most consequential byelection in British political history. His win clears the way for him to enter parliament as a Labour MP and challenge Sir Keir Starmer to become prime minister of the United Kingdom.

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Seal pups and seabird chicks are suffering in extreme weather. How can we protect them?

Extreme weather is becoming the new normal, disrupting human communities across the globe.

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‘Disasterclass’ as timid Socceroos fail to show enough ambition against United States

Australia’s match against the United States was always going to be the toughest of the Socceroos’ three fixtures in their World Cup group, and that proved to be the case. The US has backed up its emphatic opening win against Paraguay with a 2–0 victory that assures the host nation’s…

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Andy Burnham needed a big win. The Makerfield result means Labour might have reason to hope

The possible nominative determinism of the Makerfield constituency may prove as significant to political historians as it has been a blessing to newspaper sub-editors crafting puns on “Makerfield or Breakerfield”.

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