View from The Hill: Burke struggles to wrangle numbers as opposition and One Nation apply heat on migration

Particularly given Labor’s increasing concern that One Nation could erode its vote, it has to match the NOM projections it ...

Wounaan Indigenous people have opposed illegal rosewood logging and centuries of exploitation with wisdom and beauty

We highlight ways to celebrate Wounaan wisdom, joy, beauty and resistance while discussing centuries of taking from ...

Philadelphia’s failing air quality hits hardest in neighborhoods near industry and highways, where asthma rates soar

Greater Philadelphia earned failing air quality grades. A new study finds higher asthma rates near industry and major roads, ...
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Boulder is opening homes to Sundance visitors through a new license – who stands to benefit?

When the Sundance Film Festival begins in Boulder, Colorado, on Jan. 21, 2027, tens of thousands of filmmakers and moviegoers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Omar Musa’s Miles Franklin win rewards epic, ambitious Australian writing with a global scope

Fierceland, the energetic, adventurous winner of this year’s Miles Franklin, asks what it means to inherit a world already ...

What BTS’ Grammy boycott tells us about the problem with ‘Asian pop’ as a label

BTS expressed a wish that ‘music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language’.

In Love Me Tender, a mother’s fight for her child reveals how queerness is still policed

Throughout Love Me Tender, French director Anna Cazenave Cambet’s new film about a mother’s fight for custody of her child, ...

Pesticide exposure at work may increase motor neurone disease risk – new study

A new review looked at 1,734 people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). But it couldn’t separate pesticide from other risk factors, such as head trauma.

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 ...

Provocation, ruin and empire: your guide to the 2026 Miles Franklin shortlist

These Miles Franklin shortlisted novels offer six very different answers to the question: what can Australian fiction be – ...