Todd Russell, one of two Beaconsfield miners trapped underground for 14 nights in 2006, has died age 54 after a long illness. It was a quiet end for a man whose ordeal once captivated the entire country. At 9.23pm on April 25, 2006, a rockfall at the Beaconsfield gold mine
Linh Pham/UnsplashNew mortgage loans dropped by a record 15% in the September quarter as the housing market downturn deepened, led by a 30.6% dive in lending to investors, official figures on Wednesday showed. The Reserve Bank’s five interest rate hikes and stagnant real wages have hit housing demand from
Tara Winstead/PexelsA new review has found some antidepressants may be more effective than others at helping people reduce the severity of their symptoms of depression over the long term. The research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, found people taking escitalopram (commonly sold as Lexapro), duloxetine (Cymbalta) and agomelatine (Valdoxan) were
IMDbRings of Power co-creator and showrunner Patrick McKay describes the third season, premiering this month, as a “turning [of] the page” for Prime Video’s high-budget Tolkien adaptation. Season two ended with the Elven realm of Eregion in ruins and Sauron in possession of the Nine Rings intended for Men.
Who gets to see what happens in slaughterhouses? The answer is: officials, sometimes, but almost never the public. In a landmark case, the High Court of Australia has ruled an abattoir cannot use copyright law to control who sees video – allegedly depicting animal cruelty – that was illegally recorded
As a historic “blue wave” swept the Democrats to victory in last week’s US midterms, the likely incoming House oversight committee chair, Democratic lawmaker Robert Garcia, had a simple message for US President Donald Trump and his allies: “Lawyer up”. But before the new Democrat-controlled Congress has even been sworn
energyy/Getty ImagesPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has just announced six mandatory artificial intelligence (AI) safety guardrails. The government will establish a new AI safety regulator to enforce the regulations, with the power to impose significant penalties. According to the guardrails, frontier AI companies – the ones with the most powerful AI
Jesse Thompson/GettyA new report suggests this year, carbon emissions may begin to trend downward for the first time. But it’s important to take this with a grain of salt. While news reports have hailed this event, it will take years to confirm it wasn’t just a blip caused by the
Eight years after sandpaper brought Australian cricket into disgrace, the latest integrity question concerns the investigation that followed. The 2018 controversy was this week reignited by retired batter Usman Khawaja, who said the ball tampering incident wasn’t a plan hatched by three batters only (Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron
Russell Brand has been convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault and sentenced to ten years and six months in prison. The Age, The Herald Sun, The Guardian, the ABC and The Australian all reported extensively on the trial, verdict and sentencing. While it’s
For situational comedy to work, viewers need to be able to suspend their disbelief enough to care about what is happening to the characters on screen. If the whole thing feels contrived – if we feel we can see the wizard behind the curtain – the jokes just don’t work.
Photo taken during fieldwork in Western Australia, where many of the ancient rocks analysed in this study were collected. Photo by B. WarePlate tectonics is one of the reasons Earth looks so different from its planetary neighbours. The movement of enormous chunks of our planet’s crust builds mountain ranges,
Todd Russell, one of two Beaconsfield miners trapped underground for 14 nights in 2006, has died age 54 after a long illness. It was a quiet end for a man whose ordeal once captivated the entire country. At 9.23pm on April 25, 2006, a rockfall at the Beaconsfield gold mine
Linh Pham/UnsplashNew mortgage loans dropped by a record 15% in the September quarter as the housing market downturn deepened, led by a 30.6% dive in lending to investors, official figures on Wednesday showed. The Reserve Bank’s five interest rate hikes and stagnant real wages have hit housing demand from
Tara Winstead/PexelsA new review has found some antidepressants may be more effective than others at helping people reduce the severity of their symptoms of depression over the long term. The research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, found people taking escitalopram (commonly sold as Lexapro), duloxetine (Cymbalta) and agomelatine (Valdoxan) were
IMDbRings of Power co-creator and showrunner Patrick McKay describes the third season, premiering this month, as a “turning [of] the page” for Prime Video’s high-budget Tolkien adaptation. Season two ended with the Elven realm of Eregion in ruins and Sauron in possession of the Nine Rings intended for Men.
Who gets to see what happens in slaughterhouses? The answer is: officials, sometimes, but almost never the public. In a landmark case, the High Court of Australia has ruled an abattoir cannot use copyright law to control who sees video – allegedly depicting animal cruelty – that was illegally recorded
As a historic “blue wave” swept the Democrats to victory in last week’s US midterms, the likely incoming House oversight committee chair, Democratic lawmaker Robert Garcia, had a simple message for US President Donald Trump and his allies: “Lawyer up”. But before the new Democrat-controlled Congress has even been sworn
energyy/Getty ImagesPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has just announced six mandatory artificial intelligence (AI) safety guardrails. The government will establish a new AI safety regulator to enforce the regulations, with the power to impose significant penalties. According to the guardrails, frontier AI companies – the ones with the most powerful AI
Jesse Thompson/GettyA new report suggests this year, carbon emissions may begin to trend downward for the first time. But it’s important to take this with a grain of salt. While news reports have hailed this event, it will take years to confirm it wasn’t just a blip caused by the
Eight years after sandpaper brought Australian cricket into disgrace, the latest integrity question concerns the investigation that followed. The 2018 controversy was this week reignited by retired batter Usman Khawaja, who said the ball tampering incident wasn’t a plan hatched by three batters only (Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron
Russell Brand has been convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault and sentenced to ten years and six months in prison. The Age, The Herald Sun, The Guardian, the ABC and The Australian all reported extensively on the trial, verdict and sentencing. While it’s
For situational comedy to work, viewers need to be able to suspend their disbelief enough to care about what is happening to the characters on screen. If the whole thing feels contrived – if we feel we can see the wizard behind the curtain – the jokes just don’t work.
Photo taken during fieldwork in Western Australia, where many of the ancient rocks analysed in this study were collected. Photo by B. WarePlate tectonics is one of the reasons Earth looks so different from its planetary neighbours. The movement of enormous chunks of our planet’s crust builds mountain ranges,
