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Relations between the two nuclear states were already tense before China and India skirmished in the Galwan River Valley. There is no simple path ahead for India’s leader.
The answer is in the reason for re-opening only to some parts of the country. And our constitution allows states a bit of leeway to decide what is in their citizens’ best interests.
Preliminary results indicate dexamethasone could help treat severely ill patients in hospital with COVID-19. But it’s early days yet.
Tech companies have big plans for augmented reality, but all of them involve huge amounts of surveillance of our everyday lives.
As the Black Lives Matter protests push for justice, suing the police for wrongdoing in custody remains an under-utilised area of law.
As the American Civil War interrupted cotton production, plantation owners looked to the new colony of Queensland.
The rules governing Australia’s electricity market are more than 20 years old and no longer serve consumers, or climate action. But big energy companies are using COVID-19 to delay reform.
Slavery in Australia is not an issue confined to the past. It needs urgent action, and a key step is to embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
With so many parts of our lives turned upside down during COVID-19, hope may be in short supply. But there are things we can do to stay hopeful – and it’s important we do.
It’s not easy to choose between the costly hassle of renovating and the expensive upheaval of selling up, and buying a new property.
Research shows communities become more resilient to future crises when people have access to basic services such as supermarkets, hospitals and schools.
Branch stacking may not be be new. But if the ALP is to fend off political rivals in the future, it will need to get serious about reform.
I was a federal environment official for 13 years. Streamlining approvals for big infrastructure projects is a big environmental risk, unless it’s done properly.
Education is a powerful tool for creating change. So, it’s important teachers don’t shy away from difficult conversations about racism in the classroom.
There are more than 101 ways to immerse yourself in a foreign place, without having to leave your living room.
Handwritten letters are disappearing. There’s no need to deliver each one within three days.
Popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram fail to protect children from the marketing tactics of junk food advertisers. This needs to change.
Digital communications could be a force for greater local democracy in urban planning and development, but many councils use the technologies in ways that mirror traditional consultation.
Human existence is now permeated by computer language. Digital artists combine human and computer codes to create digital poetry.
In a Tuesday night speech titled “Australia and the world in the time of COVID-19”, Marise Payne has called for reform of multilateral institutions, including the World Health Organisation.
The ALP national executive has deployed sweeping intervention in the wake of the ‘branch stacking’ scandal.
Two new cases of COVID-19 have been announced in New Zealand, after 23 consecutive days with no new cases. But that doesn’t mean that the country’s elimination efforts have failed.
Aboriginal Australians have their own English with unique stories, words and expressions.
With more people working from home post-COVID-19, what are the privacy implications of employers using spyware to monitor worker activity?