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View from The Hill: Fresh from its WA triumph, how will One Nation do in the eastern trenches?
The Secret Harbour win will remove any Labor complacency that One Nation is just a problem for the conservatives.
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Nairobi’s expansion is swallowing up rural land: new book reveals the impacts on families
Urbanisation is experienced through growing tensions within families over precious yet meagre plots of land.
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One Nation thumps Labor to gain WA state seat of Secret Harbour at byelection
Pauline Hanson’s party takes the outer-Perth seat from Labor in a win that will have the major parties worried.
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When a mountain falls: How ice and rock triggered Nepal’s catastrophic flood – and why climate change is raising the risks
A geologist explains how thawing permafrost and melting ice are increasing the risk of destructive floods in the Himalayas and other high mountain regions around the world.
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Conflict is rising in Ethiopia’s Tigray region: 5 steps that could stop a return to full-scale war
Recent confrontations in Tigray are a sign that the 2022 peace process has seriously derailed.
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Trump’s Lake Ontario bluster: Why treating his sovereignty threats as a joke is dangerous
When a political leader repeatedly tells us what he wants, albeit through absurdity, there is a point at which treating it as a joke becomes its own form of denial.
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Trump’s ‘renaming’ of Lake Ontario is emblematic of centuries of colonial erasure
While many might view Trump’s renamings as comical or unserious, for Indigenous communities, they are reminiscent of centuries of settler-colonial erasure.
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Dolly Parton took control of her career by making men the butt of the joke
Whether ad-libbing her way through a duet or joking about her glamorous image, Parton turned sexist assumptions into a source of power.
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Lake Ontario to Lake America – who gets to decide what goes on maps?
A geographer explains the politics and procedures behind renaming American places.
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Nepal floods: China’s strict control of Tibet makes it harder to prepare for Himalayan disasters
Early warnings and shared data will move only as fast as Beijing’s security concerns allow.
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Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason: a tale of introspection and burgeoning self-awareness Jane Austen would have relished
Sophie is a passive observer of her own life, watching it unfold like a character on the periphery.
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Farewell to Dolly, a beaten poet and all kinds of aliens: what to watch, see and listen to this week
Even though we’re all sad about Dolly this week, we still have her wonderful songs to listen to.