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Foundations can outlive their charitable missions – and that’s a problem
The missions the foundations’ original donors champion during their lifetimes can become outdated after they’ve died.
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Has the World Cup been a soft power failure for the US?
A string of controversies look set to turn the tournament into a lesson in how soft power can fail.
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Melatonin may help ease chronic muscle and joint pain, new study suggests
Melatonin is known for helping us sleep, but a new study suggests it may also ease chronic muscle and joint pain.
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Wherever AI is heading next, older people want a say
The AI industry is dominated by young, male tech workers. It runs the risk of developing apps and tools that reproduce these gender and age-biases.
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Why some primates have even tougher births than humans
Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.
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Can speaking multiple languages really lower dementia risk? It’s not that simple
Learning languages may keep your brain young, but the evidence for preventing dementia itself is far less clearcut.
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Grattan on Friday: the zeitgeist doesn’t suit Angus Taylor but he could do more to help himself
As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has major problems.
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‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged to reveal backers
By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Mahendra Chaudhry — a former Fiji prime minister removed from power and held hostage during the 2000 coup — wants George Speight to name those behind the racist takeover. The 84-year-old Labour Party leader, who became Fiji’s first prime minister of Indian heritage in 1999, made the comment after
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Australian companies to face fines and criminal action if they fail to prevent modern slavery
The changes come just weeks after the US threatened new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries – including Australia – for inaction on slave labour.
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Bird flu has reached New Zealand – what this means and what comes next
The confirmation of the bird flu virus in a brown skua appears to be a single detection. Ongoing surveillance will be essential to detect any further cases.
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This rare Australian wattle is on the brink of extinction: new research
Four experts explain how we can protect the rare – and increasingly at risk – spidery wattle.
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How VAR is changing soccer – and its referees
If VAR catches a player offside by their toe, this is a correct decision. Whether this is what we want as fans is a philosophical debate.