Rescuers placing wet towels on 'Timmy', the whale stranded near Wismar, Germany. Morris MacMatzen/Getty ImagesA humpback whale repeatedly restranding in shallow waters in the Baltic Sea for more than three weeks has become the focus of a complex debate about reconciling compassion for animals with ethical, evidence-based decision making.
Whatever we call the current historical juncture – polycrisis, rupture or just the possible end of civilisation as we know it – there is growing agreement that the stakes couldn’t be much higher for humanity. Even in atypically fortunate Australia, just recognising and agreeing on the nature and extent of
Wikimedia, Canva, The Conversation, CC BY-NCMulticulturalism first made its way into Australian political dialogue in the 1970s, with the idea that the country could, and should, be home to people from all over the world. Inevitably, there was backlash against the idea, with opponents arguing it was the creation of
Gokul Gurung/UnsplashWhen the Crusaders descended upon the eastern shores of the Mediterranean at the end of the 11th century, they had to communicate with each other, with traders and with locals. Many of them spoke different Romance languages: Italian (especially from the then powerful city-states of Venice and Genoa),
Centre for Ageing Better/UnsplashEvery welfare program negotiates a fundamental tension: between fiscal responsibility and consistency on one hand, and care for real people with complex needs and situations on the other. Over the past decade or so, one Australian program after another has tried to absolve itself of that tension
Liliana Drew/ Pexels Pretend play is a significant and often magical part of childhood. Children have huge imaginations and use these to turn rocks into spaceships, tables into forts or pens into fairies. They might pretend to be “mum” or to “cook dinner”. Or they may invent their own
Grandfailure/Getty ImagesYour brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body’s energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you’re doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of your body in a chair – all of this together barely changes the rate at which
Anton Petrus/GettyUS President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy as “drill, baby, drill”. Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up the global shift from fossil fuels to clean energy and electric vehicles (EVs).
Troy Mortier/UnsplashIt looks increasingly likely Treasurer Jim Chalmers will make changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) discount in the federal budget in May. Under the current system, a person who has held an asset for at least 12 months receives a 50% reduction in the capital gains tax
From October people will no longer have to pay to receive help with showering, dressing and support in managing continence, in changes to home care packages to be announced by Health Minister Mark Butler on Wednesday. Under the aged care reform program brought in by the Albanese government, clinical
Next month’s federal budget is an even tighter balancing act than usual, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers facing global economic uncertainty, a fuel crisis and the need to juggle cost-of-living relief with combating inflation. The government has been weighing up changes to negative gearing, capital gains tax, a gas export
Senator Matthew Canavan before giving a morning TV interview. Matt Canavan's Facebook pageNationals leader Matt Canavan is giving the concept of the political “ground game” a new twist in the Farrer byelection. Canavan is literally camping out in the southern New South Wales electorate, despite the Nationals seemingly having
Rescuers placing wet towels on 'Timmy', the whale stranded near Wismar, Germany. Morris MacMatzen/Getty ImagesA humpback whale repeatedly restranding in shallow waters in the Baltic Sea for more than three weeks has become the focus of a complex debate about reconciling compassion for animals with ethical, evidence-based decision making.
Whatever we call the current historical juncture – polycrisis, rupture or just the possible end of civilisation as we know it – there is growing agreement that the stakes couldn’t be much higher for humanity. Even in atypically fortunate Australia, just recognising and agreeing on the nature and extent of
Wikimedia, Canva, The Conversation, CC BY-NCMulticulturalism first made its way into Australian political dialogue in the 1970s, with the idea that the country could, and should, be home to people from all over the world. Inevitably, there was backlash against the idea, with opponents arguing it was the creation of
Gokul Gurung/UnsplashWhen the Crusaders descended upon the eastern shores of the Mediterranean at the end of the 11th century, they had to communicate with each other, with traders and with locals. Many of them spoke different Romance languages: Italian (especially from the then powerful city-states of Venice and Genoa),
Centre for Ageing Better/UnsplashEvery welfare program negotiates a fundamental tension: between fiscal responsibility and consistency on one hand, and care for real people with complex needs and situations on the other. Over the past decade or so, one Australian program after another has tried to absolve itself of that tension
Liliana Drew/ Pexels Pretend play is a significant and often magical part of childhood. Children have huge imaginations and use these to turn rocks into spaceships, tables into forts or pens into fairies. They might pretend to be “mum” or to “cook dinner”. Or they may invent their own
Grandfailure/Getty ImagesYour brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body’s energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you’re doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of your body in a chair – all of this together barely changes the rate at which
Anton Petrus/GettyUS President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy as “drill, baby, drill”. Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up the global shift from fossil fuels to clean energy and electric vehicles (EVs).
Troy Mortier/UnsplashIt looks increasingly likely Treasurer Jim Chalmers will make changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) discount in the federal budget in May. Under the current system, a person who has held an asset for at least 12 months receives a 50% reduction in the capital gains tax
From October people will no longer have to pay to receive help with showering, dressing and support in managing continence, in changes to home care packages to be announced by Health Minister Mark Butler on Wednesday. Under the aged care reform program brought in by the Albanese government, clinical
Next month’s federal budget is an even tighter balancing act than usual, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers facing global economic uncertainty, a fuel crisis and the need to juggle cost-of-living relief with combating inflation. The government has been weighing up changes to negative gearing, capital gains tax, a gas export
Senator Matthew Canavan before giving a morning TV interview. Matt Canavan's Facebook pageNationals leader Matt Canavan is giving the concept of the political “ground game” a new twist in the Farrer byelection. Canavan is literally camping out in the southern New South Wales electorate, despite the Nationals seemingly having
