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Sydney Sweeney ad ignites body image debate

By Vivienne Lewis Sydney Sweeney’s sports advertisement has been widely criticised by women athletes as sexualising athletes’ bodies. The advertisement, for sports

Data centre health concerns move to centre stage

By Marion Burgess and John Davy In the United States, areas such as Michigan have been hotspots for residents pushing back against data centre construction in their

Arms race enters a dangerous new era in space

By Cassandra Steer US Air Force Secretary Troy Meink this week announced the United States has deployed what he called “on-orbit space control weapons”. This public

Republicans facing huge losses in the midterms

By Adrian Beaumont In Nate Silver’s forecast model, Democrats are more likely than not to gain control of the US federal Senate at November 3 midterm elections, and

Students caught in a negative cycle of ‘reading anxiety’

By Genevieve McArthur Western Australian author Hamish Kelly has struggled with reading for almost two decades. In his first of two books, he describes his experience

Blanche d’Alpuget found her place in history

By Chris Wallace Writer Blanche d’Alpuget has died aged 82, leaving a lasting imprint on Australian literature, and having influenced the course of political

Debate rages over health rebate plan for over-65s

By Yuting Zhang The controversy surrounding the Federal Government’s plan to scrap extra private health insurance rebates for the over-65s continues. Not everyone

Keating’s global harmonisation vision emerges from past

By Frank Bongiorno There have been two topics on which former Australian prime minister Paul Keating has been a persistent, passionate commentator in the three decades

Theatre struggles for profits despite audience growth

By Linda Lorenza and Robert Vanderburg Recent cancellations of major musical theatre productions, including Waitress and Beetlejuice, have raised an obvious question:

Draft digital duty of care laws to address online harm

By Lisa Given The Federal Government has introduced draft digital duty of care legislation, designed to protect Australians from online harms. The legislation was first

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