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Smart clothes will soon be on sale. But regulations are needed to prevent a new waste mountain
Clever clothing that can sense health issues are not far off, but they could prove hard to recycle or reuse.
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Ceuta and Melilla: how the colonial legacies of these cities have shaped migration in the region
These cities occasionally sparks intense debates on undocumented migration to Spain, and hence to the EU.
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Boulder is opening homes to Sundance visitors through a new license – who stands to benefit?
The new Festival Lodging Rental License allows properties to be rented out for a maximum of 29 days per year.
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SpaceX aims to use rockets to quickly transport cargo across the Earth and into orbit – moves that would expand the global cargo system
Point-to-point rocket delivery could cut down on transportation times. But engineers will need to figure out how to integrate rockets into current transportation systems.
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NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media
By Victor Barreiro Jr in Manila The National Union of Journalists (NUJP) of the Philippines calls it “outrageous” for the Vice- President to insult the work of Philippine news organisations The NUJP criticised Vice-President Sara Duterte over remarks she made on July 30 and released by her office a day later, saying she denigrated Philippine
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What critics of college athletes making money get wrong about name, image and likeness policies
Since college athletes were allowed to sign branding deals in 2021, the debate has continued over whether letting students make money off their names is a good thing.
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Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo
COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose “New Zealand is not a monotonous garden where every flower is the same; it is a garden where the diversity of the blooms enriches the view,” Winston Peters declared in his maiden speech, 47 years ago. If you were looking for an image to illustrate the diversity today’s Minister of Foreign
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View from The Hill: Burke struggles to wrangle numbers as opposition and One Nation apply heat on migration
The minister cancelling his press club appearance was embarrassing and revealing.
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sally McManus on how AI could force future cuts to HECS debts and work hours
The outgoing union leader said that beyond the new Victorian royal commission, ‘a lot more needs to be done’ to fight corruption in construction Australia-wide.
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An attack ‘motivated by anarchist and revolutionary ideology’: is far-left terrorism a growing concern?
In an apparent Australian first, an attack on a Victorian defence manufacturer is being investigated as a potential act of far-left terror.
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How a new UN cybercrime treaty could be used to crack down on dissent
Even with human rights safeguards in place, the new convention risks giving authoritarian regimes new tools to target their critics.
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35% of Australian uni students are part-time. But higher ed is still geared towards full-timers
Part-time students are more than twice as likely to drop out of university than their full-time peers. How can unis better support this vulnerable group?