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Sshhhh, can you hear that? Listen carefully… listen, don’t make a sound! Can’t you hear it? Neither can I, but I know it’s coming. Every year I wait, and sure enough, it arrives. There is a request to ...

Australian politics tends to shy away from grand spectacle, but Albanese and Dutton both need to reassure a restless public that, amid global chaos, Australia remains anchored in pragmatism, says Univ ...

Monotremes are among the world’s strangest animals, mixing mammalian and reptilian characteristics in the one creature. When British scientists in the 18th Century first saw a platypus they dismissed ...

The Alice Springs crime wave gained widespread coverage in the past week. This crime wave and particularly the data on domestic violence assaults draws attention to a contentious issue that goes ...

The last few weeks have seen an escalation in racially motivated abuse towards people from Asian backgrounds, both here in Australia and around the world. But we’re also seeing this racism spark ...

In the opening chapter of Jane Austen’s much-loved novel Emma (1815), Emma Woodhouse, the story’s beautiful and intelligent protagonist, describes the wedding of her friend and former governess: ...

The COVID-19 vaccine is set to roll out in Australia in a few days, but what are the attitudes of Australians to the vaccine and will enough take the vaccine for us to achieve herd immunity? Herd ...

Giraffe spots have interested researchers and natural historians for hundreds of years, and indeed humankind for much longer. In fact, they are a key feature in early rock carvings, including ...

On any given night in Australia one-in-200 people are homeless. Few would disagree that this number is far too high, but there is much debate about why people become homeless in the first place. Rough ...