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COP31 avoids big, smoking elephant in the room

By Matt McDonald One phrase has been glaringly absent from this year’s COP31 climate summit. Fossil fuels are not mentioned in the COP31 priority areas. Key speeches

Johnny Depp brings a different side to Scrooge

By Grace Moore Another festive season beckons, and with it another adaptation of Charles Dickens’ perennial favourite, A Christmas Carol – this time as a vehicle

CCTV cannot be relied on to protect childcare kids

Lauren Brocki, Alicia Phillips and Kelli-Anne Price CCTV has been promoted as one way to make early learning safer in the wake of ongoing reports of child abuse and

Pathways to work for young people are breaking again

By Shane Rodgers The transition between education and work for young people is showing early signs of breaking – again. The unemployment rate for 15-24-year-olds

Universities fail to keep up with march of AI

By Jason M. Lodge Artificial intelligence (AI) use among university students is now near-universal in many countries. Yet, as of a year ago, fewer than one in five

Delicate diplomacy for Australia at climate summit

By Matt McDonald Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, is about to embark on his most significant diplomatic challenge. For the next two

No other stores like David Jones? Is the era over?

By Robert Crawford After 188 years, department store David Jones has been put into administration over unpaid rent at some of its 38 Australian and New Zealand stores,

Brand case reveals dark side of British entertainment

By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden Russell Brand’s conviction for sex crimes has renewed scrutiny of how Britain’s entertainment industry has treated

Mystery of the missing layers of Earth’s history solved

By Santosh Dhungana and Nicolas Flament Imagine opening a history book and finding several chapters torn out. This was what geologists looking into the rock records of

US election breaks age-old rules of American politics

By Andrew Gawthorpe Donald Trump’s Republican Party has received a stunning rebuke in the US midterm elections. Republicans went into election evening hoping that the

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