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Britain’s quarter century: crime falls, sea-levels rise and education yet to recover from COVID
How big policy areas like crime, education, transport and energy have changed.
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Latest sanctions on Iran risk strengthening Tehran and undermining US credibility
Washington has promised to unleash “economic D-Day” on Tehran and its allies. But Iran has lived through US sanctions for nearly 50 years.
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The Suburban Rail Loop will play a major role in the 2026 Victorian election. Why is it so controversial?
It is an unenviable position for a government to have potentially misallocated tens of billions of dollars to poorly selected infrastructure.
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Australia’s lobbying rules ignore most lobbyists. It’s time for an overhaul
The current system allows powerful actors to attempt to influence government decision-making covertly. To improve transparency, here are four key reforms.
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When is selling clothes or other items online a hobby vs a business? These are the tax rules
When do you need to declare online sales income to the tax office? The answer can be as messy as your wardrobe – so two experts explain what you need to know.
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From nightlife to life at night: cities must stay open later to beat the rising heat
From floodlit beaches to late-night libraries, city life has to change to beat the heat.
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Legal wrangling over $12.5B Lakers sale shows how family trusts don’t guarantee a business stays in the family
Investors want to buy the basketball team for a record sum.
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When to trust the experts? Follow these guidelines to evaluate science on any topic
Science works through a process of revision. As consumers, we must learn how to evaluate how mature evidence is, and always remain flexible to new findings.
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Women and racialized CEOs may outperform their peers because they face tougher barriers to the top
Women and racialized executives often outperform white men as CEOs. But that may say as much about the barriers they had to overcome to reach the top as it does about their leadership ability.
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Refinery rivalry: billion-dollar oil projects expose East Africa’s long-running regional tensions
Rivalry has not disappeared from east Africa. It has simply been repackaged as competing ‘regional’ projects.
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Albanese to seek state cooperation on data centres but faces fight with Queensland
The federal government will push for new national laws with rules for where data centres can go, how they must be powered and where their water comes from.
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Just as the world appears to be losing its appetite for books, William T. Vollmann pens a 3,000-page novel
His latest – and possibly last – book tackles America’s foreign policy before and after 9/11. Could it also serve as an antidote to the fragmented attention and political duplicity of our current moment?