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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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What children worry about when they start secondary school – and how to support them
Feeling prepared helped children with their worries.
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A ‘super El Niño’ could make India’s monsoon drier yet more dangerous
El Niño summers can mean less rain overall, but more extreme daily rainfall.
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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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How much sleep do I need? Why you can forget the eight-hour sleep rule
Eight hours isn’t necessarily the magic number for sleep. Your age, body clock and individual needs all matter.
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The real reasons you procrastinate – and how to stop, according to science
Around 20% of adults procrastinate regularly. Yet a lot of what we hear about this common behaviour is wrong.
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The brain isn’t hardwired to read – here’s how we pull it off and why some are better at it than others
There is not only one way to learn to read, as people who are deaf, blind or dyslexic demonstrate.
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Left-handed people tend to be left-leaning voters
A study across 18 western countries has found that left-handed people sit on the left of the political spectrum backed by data supporting that it has more to do with identity than biology.
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Russia’s volunteer soldiers may face tougher job prospects after returning from Ukraine: study
If prospective recruits come to expect a job-market cost after voluntary war service, Russia may find it harder or more expensive to attract volunteers.
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View from The Hill: Pragmatism holds Albanese to bad GST carve up, but Productivity Commission remains burr under saddle
The government is so far turning a blind eye to the Productivity Commission’s scathing GST review. But that’s not stopping the commission from making its case.
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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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NZ election poll watch: right still leads left, but Opportunity could deny it a majority
With just over two months until the election, polls have settled into a new normal, with no clear frontrunner evident.