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Friday 4 July 2025

Oldest wooden artefacts ever found in East Asia reveal plant-based diet of ancient humans

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Tuesday 1 July 2025

A new ‘prac payment’ has just kicked in. But it ignores many uni students

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Amnesty for drug traffickers? That’s one Mexican presidential candidate’s pitch to voters

With over 29,000 murders, 2017 was the deadliest year in Mexico since modern record-keeping began. Nearly two-thirds of Mexicans say crime and violence are the biggest problems facing their country.

Big city gaybourhoods: where they come from and why they still matter

This is the third article in our series, Cities for Everyone, which explores how members of different communities experience and shape our cities, and how we can create better public spaces for everyone.

As Wentworth slips quietly onto the ABC, the series still asks tough questions about gender politics

In early March, the ABC issued a press release announcing that the “multi-award-winning Australian drama Wentworth” would make its free to air television debut on April 12.

Can the Liberal Party hold its ‘broad church’ of liberals and conservatives together?

Liberals and conservatives on the non-Labor side are locked in a dance in which each partner tries to dominate the other, even as they cling to each other in an endless embrace.

Will sorting classrooms by ability improve marks? It depends on the mix

Deliberately sorting students may raise the average attainment of pupils in ways other interventions may not.

Children aren’t liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them

Our world is becoming increasingly vulnerable to fire, flood and other natural hazards. While our instinct as adults may be to shield children from these possibilities, this does them a real disservice.

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