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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said ice is far more potent, far more dangerous, and far more addictive than any other illegal drug. Is that supported by the data?
If the Ashley Madison hack was an inside job, then it shows that even strong protection against outside attacks isn’t necessarily enough to prevent a leak of private data.
It’s never helpful for a government to become the object of ridicule, so when the Coalition’s speaking notes were leaked for a second day running it was embarrassing.
The government should follow the evidence-based advice before wasting more money on a new “trial” program that further infantilises mainly Indigenous welfare recipients and won’t work.
The Nationals member for Riverina, Michael McCormack, talks about politics and journalism, the future of the Nationals' leadership, tax reform and much more.
Artist Mike Parr’s career might be best described as a series of alarming acts - he’s cut his legs with a scalpel and used his blood as paint. His latest act is erase his work by painting it white.
Organisers of the World Championship in Athletics will be on their toes after recent revelations of mass doping by endurance athletes. Here’s what you need to know about doping and how to evade it.
Hayley Saul and Emma Waterton were in the Langtang valley in Nepal when the massive earthquake hit. Dallas Rogers spoke to Hayley and Emma about their subsequent rescue and the everyday Nepalese hero.
Over-fishing is a massive environmental and economic challenge. Fortunately, there are new solutions being trialled – including in a tuna hotspot in the Pacific.
Moral dilemmas are common; whether we act with courage or compliance depends on a whole range of factors in any given situation.
Flexi schools are a relatively new form of alternative schooling in Australia. They have grown from just a few community-based projects to one of the fastest growing type of new schools in Australia.
Biology can only tell you so much about the workings of the brain. To understand how we think and remember things you need he help of a mathematician.
Katy Faust, a US traditional marriage advocate, told Q&A that children have a natural right to a mother and a father, highlighting weaknesses in studies on same-sex parented children. Let’s check the facts.
The success of the Opera Australia and Barking Gecko Theatre’s Rabbits offers a chance to celebrate the pioneering nature of children’s theatre in Australia.
School autonomy isn’t necessarily a bad idea, we just don’t know if it has any effect. A recent study claiming a positive effect of school autonomy is severely flawed.
Conditions affecting the stomach and bowels are common in modern humans and many are on the rise.
All too often, the debate around the BDS movement is lost in a cacophony of anti-Semitism accusations and the focus shifts to Western institutions instead of Palestinian rights.
Divorce rates are on the decline in Australia, people are marrying and having children later in life, and more of us live alone. Our experts respond to the new report on Australia’s welfare.
The changing meaning of sport is perhaps most clearly evident in darts – which is now hyper-commercialised.
Telstra is promising to “transform the experience” for AFL fans, but Foxtel has similar plans.
Diving in many parts of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia now costs a little more than it used to – but you might be happy to discover why.
The world of the future will have more mouths to feed, but those people are likely to be more discerning too. It adds up to a complex mix of factors for Australian farmers keen to safeguard their prospects.
Intellectual property is critical to Australia’s success, but we don’t need another review to tell us where the problems are.
Media coverage of a recent study involving a “leaky” vaccine raised questions about the possibility that they could make viruses more dangerous.