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Economic activity and development are unevenly distributed across regions of the world and within any…
‘Play Hardball’ Over Covid Vaccine Price Hike
The largest daily newspaper in Moderna’s home state of Massachusetts published an editorial on Sunday…
Gum empowers pastoral communities to help face climate change
Two thirds of Kenya is arid or semi-arid land. This area is of particular interest…
A brutal ‘sport’ that may leave contestants with brain damage
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White has created a new brutal sport: Power Slap…
Australia is to have a poet laureate – how will the first appointment define us as a nation?
Poetry has often been a matter of nation building, including in Australia. Who hasn’t learnt…
Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz wants 70% tax on top incomes
Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz is concerned about increasing social inequality in the world. The…
Earwigs are the hero single mothers of the insect world – and good for your garden too
You lift a stone and staring up at you is a little insect with its…
Treasurer Jim Chalmers answers critics of his ‘values-based capitalism’
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has rejected as “laughable” criticism he has turned his back on the…
What the new national cultural policy could mean for Australia – if it all comes together
It’s finally been launched. A new cultural policy for Australia. After years (actually decades) of…
After years of austerity, Revive writes the next chapter in Australian literary culture
The Albanese government’s Revive is Australia’s first national cultural policy in ten years. The last…