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Cemeteries are running out of space, and cremation damages the environment, but there are other ways we could honour our dead ...
Every employee needs toilets and break facilities, but gig companies don’t provide these, leaving workers dependent on public ...
“We’ve been managing the river as custodians from the beginning of time, but governments are not asking us how we did that.” Water justice is a critical issue for Aboriginal people who currently own ...
What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of ‘wage theft’. Wage theft is the popular term that has come to describe “under-or ...
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 ...
When researchers secretly used AI bots on Reddit to study how AI can influence human opinion it became a landmark moment for ...
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 ...
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 ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, we’re learning more about the potential long-term impact of COVID-19 on the human brain. Globally, millions of people have contracted COVID-19 over the past few ...
Australia’s Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has published its findings. And it’s a damning read. Various unnamed individuals are referred for potential civil or criminal investigation, but ...