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Pacific voices needed as Australia seeks climate summit

Australia is hoping elevate the voices of the Pacific as the climate change minister visits the region to strengthen a bid to co-host the UN climate summit.

AAP · Jul 7, 2025

Building a nation: Papua New Guinea’s 50 years of independence

A time of opportunity seemed to lie ahead in 1975, but has PNG and its leaders lived up to that promise?

The Guardian - AU · Jul 7, 2025

Australia to grow Fiji ties after Rabuka visit

Australia has committed tens of millions more to Fiji in a strengthening of the bilateral "Vuvale Partnership" aimed at ensuring a peaceful and stable Pacific.

AAP · Jul 6, 2025

Morning Mail: alarm over pokies influencers; toxic algal bloom reaches Adelaide; Oscar Piastri cops penalty at British GP

Calls for a clampdown on influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines on social media

The Guardian - AU · Jul 6, 2025

The winners and losers from F1's 2025 British Grand Prix

We hadn’t had a proper mixed weather bonanza since the opening race in Australia, but were finally rewarded for our patience with another memorable British GP that had it all as the British summer proved why it never disappoints. McLaren took another 1-2, but it wasn't plain sailing this time,…

Motorsport · Jul 6, 2025

Just $7 extra per person could prevent 300 suicides a year. Here’s exactly where to spend it

Medicare spending on mental health services varies considerably depending on where in Australia you live, our new study shows.

The Conversation · Jul 6, 2025

‘The customer is always right’: why some uni teachers give higher grades than students deserve

Grade inflation happens when teachers knowingly give a student a mark higher than deserved. It can also happen indirectly, when the level of difficulty of a course is deliberately lowered so students achieve higher grades.

The Conversation · Jul 6, 2025

Much to celebrate as NAIDOC Week turns 50, but also much to learn

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and/or images of deceased people.

The Conversation · Jul 6, 2025

‘A defiant stand’: histories of Australia’s frontier wars are revealing their true complexity, but there’s more to be done

Historian Stephen Gapps’ latest book, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, describes a coordinated Aboriginal military front across more than 20 different Aboriginal nations and language groups. The front extended for thousands of kilometres, from Port Phillip in the south to Moreton Bay in the north.

The Conversation · Jul 6, 2025

I was well within the rules: Piastri fumes over penalty

Oscar Piastri's 10-second penalty robbed him of a chance of British GP glory, taken by McLaren teammate Lando Norris but the Australian says he broke no rules.

AAP · Jul 6, 2025