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The resurrection of the musical vampire: from the 19th century stage to The Vampire Lestat
Where Lestat (2005) killed off the vampire musical, TV’s Lestat is resurrecting it.
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Grattan on Friday: A reluctant Albanese is under pressure over telehealth for VAD
The parliament seems poised to test Labor’s platform commitment to the use of Telehealth in voluntary assisted dying cases, even as Albanese remains personally opposed.
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Gina Rinehart paid $1.2 million to Australia’s Commonwealth Games swimmers. Is there any problem with that?
It’s no surprise the generous bonuses are well received by most swimmers, but it also raises several ethical quandaries.
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Australia’s online watchdog is taking messaging app Telegram to court over ‘pro-terrorist’ posts
The eSafety Commissioner alleges Telegram failed to detect and remove pro-terrorist and extremist material, including videos of executions and attacks.
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World game at war: why some European nations have threatened a World Cup boycott
There is widespread unease about changes to the world game that will hyper-commercialise it, with the fallout potentially enormous.
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The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate way
By Jeremy Rose In the run-up to the 1975 New Zealand election, the Labour, National, Social Credit, and Values parties all committed to the target of spending 1 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, with 70 percent of that coming from the government. If we had met that target, the government would have
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Same sparkle, different story: how lab-grown diamonds are transforming the market
Consumers are asking deeper questions about what they’re really paying for.
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Labor MP arrested over alleged assault on Northern Territory Administrator
NT Police said in an early Thursday statement the alleged incident took place at a public event on Saturday July 18.
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A new fuel refinery is a start. But Australia is still vulnerable to shipping disruptions without a clear strategy
Fuel is not the only critical thing Australia imports by sea. We need to make maritime resilience a priority.
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Meta-backed research finds exposure to ‘untrustworthy’ social media is rare. The fine print is less reassuring
There is a risk this study will be leveraged by big tech platforms to exhonerate themselves.
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Overlapping parental leave is the right idea – we just need more fathers to take it
A ‘use it or lose it’ paid parental leave policy like Sweden’s could encourage more new fathers to share the early child-rearing months.
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Human Rights Watch report says Indonesia is silencing environmental activists in Papua
By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says that the Indonesian government is silencing environmental activists and journalists in Papua region, known internationally as West Papua. The report, titled Grabbed Land, Silenced Justice, examines how parts of Papua, in particular South Papua province, are seeing a greater military presence