Illustration from an 1894 edition of The Three Musketeers. Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsFew phrases in literature have travelled as widely as “all for one, and one for all”. It has come to signify loyalty, courage and a form of friendship that appears to transcend circumstance. First published in 1844
Dataland will open at the Frank Gehry designed The Grand LA. RDNE Stock project/PexelsThe “world first museum of AI arts” is scheduled to open next month in a 35,000 square feet purpose-built facility in downtown Los Angeles. Dataland is the brainchild of Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç, artists known
Giza-01/500px/GettyIn an Australian first, a Canberra man has been convicted for giving genital herpes to a sexual partner. The man pleaded guilty to the charge of “recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm”, which carries a maximum sentence of 13 years. He will be serving his 13-month sentence, handed down last
Newretreads/WikimediaDingoes have roamed Australia for at least 3,000 years. These clever canines are the mainland’s only native apex predator on land. They also hold deep cultural and spiritual meaning for many First Nations groups. When European colonists arrived, they brought domestic dogs. These have sporadically bred with some dingo populations
The fresh air, picturesque vistas and pristine bush of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney draw millions of visitors a year. Unfortunately, the Blue Mountains are also the site of a controversial investigation into water contamination with “forever chemicals”, also called PFAS. Our recent study investigated long-term PFAS contamination from
imaginima / Getty ImagesEarly this week, Iranian state-linked media floated a plan to charge the operators of undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz for access to what they say is Iran’s offshore territory. The suggestion comes after Iranian warnings that several important cables in the strait were a
PixabayHave you recently tried to call a tradie for repairs or a renovation and had trouble finding one? As the federal budget once again focuses on boosting housing supply, one critical issue keeps resurfacing. Australia does not have enough skilled tradespeople to fix and renovate existing homes, let alone
Wanna Yossingkum/Getty ImagesMost of us are familiar with the concept of greenwashing: organisations exaggerating or overstating their environmental credentials. But in New Zealand, there are signs the country’s climate disclosure regime may inadvertently be driving a very different trend: not saying much at all. “Greenhushing” describes organisations ...
Angus Taylor might have reckoned he and the opposition are in such deep doo-doo that he might as well throw everything at Thursday night’s budget reply. The result was a mixed bag. The promise to index tax brackets is a bold reform that can’t be faulted in principle, although
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has committed a Coalition government to phase in income tax indexation under a “tax back guarantee” that he says “will fully protect all taxpayers from inflation”. In his budget reply on Thursday night, Taylor described the plan, which would cost $22.5 billion over the forward estimates,
Alistair Berg/Getty Images The federal government has announced a new “safeguard” around how funding is spent to support school students with disabilities. The budget papers say there is an issue with “inaccurate claiming” by schools and new controls are needed to prevent “fraud and non-compliance”. This is more
Ben McKay/AAP, Mark Baker/AP, The ConversationThe government’s plan to change the law to bar claims for harms from greenhouse gas emissions shuts down New Zealand’s most important climate tort case, meaning it will never be decided on its merits. The move overrides a unanimous Supreme Court decision that Smith
Illustration from an 1894 edition of The Three Musketeers. Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsFew phrases in literature have travelled as widely as “all for one, and one for all”. It has come to signify loyalty, courage and a form of friendship that appears to transcend circumstance. First published in 1844
Dataland will open at the Frank Gehry designed The Grand LA. RDNE Stock project/PexelsThe “world first museum of AI arts” is scheduled to open next month in a 35,000 square feet purpose-built facility in downtown Los Angeles. Dataland is the brainchild of Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç, artists known
Giza-01/500px/GettyIn an Australian first, a Canberra man has been convicted for giving genital herpes to a sexual partner. The man pleaded guilty to the charge of “recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm”, which carries a maximum sentence of 13 years. He will be serving his 13-month sentence, handed down last
Newretreads/WikimediaDingoes have roamed Australia for at least 3,000 years. These clever canines are the mainland’s only native apex predator on land. They also hold deep cultural and spiritual meaning for many First Nations groups. When European colonists arrived, they brought domestic dogs. These have sporadically bred with some dingo populations
The fresh air, picturesque vistas and pristine bush of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney draw millions of visitors a year. Unfortunately, the Blue Mountains are also the site of a controversial investigation into water contamination with “forever chemicals”, also called PFAS. Our recent study investigated long-term PFAS contamination from
imaginima / Getty ImagesEarly this week, Iranian state-linked media floated a plan to charge the operators of undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz for access to what they say is Iran’s offshore territory. The suggestion comes after Iranian warnings that several important cables in the strait were a
PixabayHave you recently tried to call a tradie for repairs or a renovation and had trouble finding one? As the federal budget once again focuses on boosting housing supply, one critical issue keeps resurfacing. Australia does not have enough skilled tradespeople to fix and renovate existing homes, let alone
Wanna Yossingkum/Getty ImagesMost of us are familiar with the concept of greenwashing: organisations exaggerating or overstating their environmental credentials. But in New Zealand, there are signs the country’s climate disclosure regime may inadvertently be driving a very different trend: not saying much at all. “Greenhushing” describes organisations ...
Angus Taylor might have reckoned he and the opposition are in such deep doo-doo that he might as well throw everything at Thursday night’s budget reply. The result was a mixed bag. The promise to index tax brackets is a bold reform that can’t be faulted in principle, although
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has committed a Coalition government to phase in income tax indexation under a “tax back guarantee” that he says “will fully protect all taxpayers from inflation”. In his budget reply on Thursday night, Taylor described the plan, which would cost $22.5 billion over the forward estimates,
Alistair Berg/Getty Images The federal government has announced a new “safeguard” around how funding is spent to support school students with disabilities. The budget papers say there is an issue with “inaccurate claiming” by schools and new controls are needed to prevent “fraud and non-compliance”. This is more
Ben McKay/AAP, Mark Baker/AP, The ConversationThe government’s plan to change the law to bar claims for harms from greenhouse gas emissions shuts down New Zealand’s most important climate tort case, meaning it will never be decided on its merits. The move overrides a unanimous Supreme Court decision that Smith
