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The change to foreign ownership of Australia’s critical infrastructure companies continues.
Papua New Guinea is now facing a drought and frosts that look set to be worse than 1997, when hundreds of people died. So how can memories of 1997 save lives over the next few months?
In the shadow of a history-repeating Black Monday, it’s useful to step back and ask how we got here again.
There are increasingly very sound financial reasons for super funds to strategically divest from some areas.
For more than a decade the coal industry’s favoured response to climate change was carbon capture and storage, or CCS. CCS is still the main defence, but the absence of functioning projects is making it ever more threadbare.
At the heart of the debate around the language of marriage is a conflict about whether a marriage between same-sex partners is the same or different to a marriage between opposite sex partners.
The number of youth mental health centres known as headspace has rapidly expanded in the last decade. But we have yet to see evaluation of whether the services improve young people’s mental health.
Your choice of university may have a significant impact on your life, so it is worth gathering the information needed to make a good decision.
The decisions an animal makes when escaping a predator can mean the difference between life or death.
Barely a week after ISIS beheaded Khaled al-Asaad, the Syrian expert who devoted his life to the study of Palmyra, the group is reported to have destroyed a nearly 2,000-year-old temple dedicated to Baalshamin…
No matter how much we reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it will not be enough to keep global warming below 2C. Does this mean we should give up? Not at all.
While recent days have witnessed a sharp sell-off in global stock markets it is important to remember that investment is generally a long-term game.
Large supermarkets are undoubtedly very convenient, with a huge variety of products on offer. But evidence suggests their size prompts us to shop less often and buy more on each trip.
In many regional countries there are civil society organisations attempting to fill the protection gap for refugees through service provision, advocacy, or both.
Can relationship lessons in the classroom end violence against women?
Charges of racism against Labor for querying aspects of the free trade deal with China are a mark of how much Australian attitudes have changed and how adversarial politics fuels hyperbolic attacks.
Social media is rewriting patterns of communication in China.
The ASX was rocked by a fall in China’s sharemarket. But the fundamentals don’t bear out the panic.
Fears of a currency war have not come to fruition in Asia, making Asia’s current market woes look even more like the effects of contagion.
Australian air attacks against Islamic State targets in Syria would not be definitely legal but not definitely illegal.
A Harvard University researcher last week suggested western women stop breastfeeding after a couple of months to reduce the risk of passing potentially harmful toxins on to infants via breast milk.
For many people, their knowledge of extreme metal mainly springs from the nefarious activities of a small group of Norwegian musicians in the 1990s. But there’s more to this genre than meets the eye.
How will climate change affect life in the oceans? New research shows that the answer is likely good and bad.
Both industry and environmental groups need more certainty over the government’s approvals process. But the recent hectic rhetoric has given them less certainty - and that could be bad for both sides.