
Backrooms: why being trapped in the film’s endless corridors feels a lot like modern life
Beneath the horrifying labyrinth, Backrooms tells a familiar story of foreclosed futures, precarity and frustrated aspirations.
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Beneath the horrifying labyrinth, Backrooms tells a familiar story of foreclosed futures, precarity and frustrated aspirations.

Make way for the Chief Purpose Officer - a corporate compass for keeping firms’ strategy in line with their purpose statements, but can they genuinely change organizations for the better?

Budget 2026 offered useful support for small firms. But building blocks are not the same as a productivity blueprint.

Three hours of free power isn’t a giveaway – it’s meant to help the grid use floods of cheap solar. To succeed, the new scheme has to be fair.

Unpaid super costs Australians around $6 billion. So how much is ‘payday super’ likely to boost your balance? And where can employees or employers get more help?

More profitable applications for quantum computers are eclipsing the drive to break encryption.

The $20 billion climate flop: a flagship plan to phase out coal in Indonesia hasn’t shut a single power plant.

New perspectives on history, complicated family relationships and a creative approach to health.

Researchers learned from dozens of interviews that the usual ways of resolving complex cases, escalating issues and holding the authorities accountable no longer work.

Whether or not there’s a will, the results are the same.

On the back of her party’s recent success, Pauline Hanson’s confidence is soaring - and she’s backing herself for the top job.

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French Constitutional Council has validated an adjustment to New Caledonia’s restrictions for their forthcoming provincial elections due to be held on 28 June 2026. The adjustment will now allow more than 10,000 people to cast their votes in the French territory’s local elections. The ruling