Blue Origin rocket exploded on launchpad, throwing the future of NASA’s Artemis program into question

NASA has several contracts with Blue Origin as part of its Artemis program – this setback for the company could delay the program.

Budget investment in health signals continued austerity without long‑term vision

Some new spending initiatives in health should add value, but the budget lacks a long-term vision for building cross-party ...

Gina Rinehart and Southern Cross Austereo: what do billionaire media buyouts mean for democracy?

The mega-wealthy buying into Australia’s increasingly concentrated media industry is nothing new – and it is a critical issue ...
Opinion

I’ve been studying racist costume parties for a decade, and colleges are failing at educating the students about why they’re wrong

A series of racist costume parties at Bowdoin shows the contradiction colleges have to navigate – encouraging open, reasoned debate, while creating a safe campus for all students.

Not A Souvenir: Tony Albert exhibit turns racist Aboriginalia into a powerful act of truth‑telling

Showing now at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Not a Souvenir forces us to confront Australia’s colonial kitsch culture.

Public trust in Australian police is declining. COVID sparked it – but there’s more to the story

New research released by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) confirms what many Australians ...

Should you get a second medical opinion? A surgeon explains why doing so can make you a more confident patient

Seeking a second opinion is a patient’s right. Knowing how empowering another perspective can be may make it less awkward to ...

Turtles finally have a place in the tree of life: X‑ray study of South African fossils was a decider

Palaeontologists have got a clearer picture of where turtles fit in the animal kingdom, thanks to analysis of a southern ...

The forgotten story of abolition in revolutionary France – the first emancipation

Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon ...

South Africa’s fuel supply and the Iran war: data black holes and low strategic stock put the country at risk

The supply of crude oil to the world had been reduced by about 7.5% to 10.1% by March 2026 in what the World Bank described ...
Opinion

The Enhanced Games set out to ‘transform sport’ but the results looked surprisingly ordinary

The Enhanced Games promised a revolution. Athletes on supervised drug regimens, unshackled from the anti-doping rules of the Olympics, were going to show us what the human body was truly capable of.