13+ hour, 56+ min ago  (415+ words) Instead of a blanket ban on social media for under 16-year-olds, listening to young peoples" ideas about how to tackle the harm would be more effective. A US study for the National Bureau of Economic Research released in late April…...

13+ hour, 32+ min ago  (256+ words) Australia should be very cautious when listening to beguiling arguments recommending keeping cigarette excise sky high after the increase of these rates from about 20 cents to about $1. 50 per cigarette in the last 25 years has led to a massive, violent black…...

13+ hour, 42+ min ago  (289+ words) Timber plantations now provide the overwhelming majority of Australia's sawn wood products and will become even more important as native forest logging declines and climate pressures intensify. Timber tree plantations are broadly defined as: Stands of native or exotic tree…...

13+ hour, 52+ min ago  (754+ words) The detention and public humiliation of Australian citizens aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla raises broader questions about whether Australia applies its human rights principles differently when the state involved is a close ally. The footage released this week by Israel's…...

14+ hour, 1+ min ago  (483+ words) Australia generates world-class research in clean energy but we are still not good at commercialising that knowledge. Australia keeps asking why it does not have a Silicon Valley. It is asking the wrong question. We looked at Silicon Valley and…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (345+ words) Believing in their military might, neither Putin nor Trump considered the consequences of their attacks on Ukraine and Iran. Now their wars are failing. Confident in the belief there was nothing their respective militaries could not do, Vladimir Putin and…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (231+ words) Whether you're an "innie' or an "outie', the television series Severance resonates so deeply because its vision of fragmented identity, emotional suppression and corporate control no longer feels futuristic. It feels uncomfortably familiar. The demand in Severance to "turn off…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (723+ words) The morality Tom Uren learned on the Burma railway stayed with him all his life. He believed in the collective spirit. That did not make him weak. Tom Uren would have been 105 on 28 May. Nowadays, Tom Uren's politics would be…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1798+ words) Trump's visit to Beijing reveals how the balance of power " bilaterally and globally " has shifted to China's advantage. How polished are the Chinese, how delicate in their gestures! After two millennia's experience in statecraft and the diplomatic arts, they can…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (650+ words) The 2026 budget is a continuation of the Labor Government's denial of the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions before the climate reaches a tipping point. The 2026 budget speech was titled "Resilience and reform'. "Resilience' " a very fluid term favoured by…...