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With the failures of past planning now apparent, the unruly threat of a damaged and depleting planet is ushering us toward a fourth era of urban restructuring. What might City v4.0 look like?
Over the past few years many companies have committed to sustainable palm oil. But that is threatened by a growing alliance between industry and government.
Anzac Day is a big part of our national story. But the politics of memory mean the parts of this story that don’t fit neatly into the Anzac narrative are too often forgotten.
Research shows exercise can improve outcomes of cancer patients while driving down health-care costs.
The first years of the millennium were kind to government finances. A benign economic environment, and a once-in-a-century commodity boom fuelled by Chinese growth, helped the Federal budget to a cumulative…
For centuries, the fossil remains of back-boned animals were studied primarily from their hardened bones. Now palaeontologists can study the softer side of these ancient creatures.
In his ministerial reshuffle earlier this year, Malcolm Turnbull made Angus Taylor, an up-and-coming Liberal MP, the assistant minister for cities and digital transformation.
This summer has seen Tasmania suffer through drought, bushfires, floods and the worst marine heatwave on record. Is this what life under a climate-changed future will be like?
A new review of research training in Australia calls for transferable skills to be central to the training of PhD students.
In terms of what is achievable, any foreign policy approach that does not account for strategic and historical realities is likely to fail.
We don’t know enough about the people who use painkillers non-medically to make the judgement that there is a natural transition from legal to illicit drug use.
When two major earthquakes occur within days of each other thousands of kilometres apart, it can look like they’re connected. But are they? Here’s what the science says.
If countries are serious about drug reform, they must address the disproportionate harm of current drug policies on women worldwide.
The work of David Aschauer could help the government put a more positive spin on spending.
Australia’s 44th parliament may be coming to an end, but there will be plenty of political action before the 45th can start.
We’re set to hear very little about nature conservation in Australia’s upcoming election campaign. Here’s why that’s a huge oversight.
In the almost 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, his words have been enlisted by an extraordinary range of historical figures. Even the Nazis tried to claim him as a ‘Germanic’ writer.
Recent reports propose a connection between Zika infection and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM).
A survey has found that the percentage of foreign ownership is more worrying to Australians than the country-of-origin of the investment.
Voters will hear a lot about productivity in the lead up to the budget. The key thing to remember is that it’s a very rubbery concept, enormously tricky to measure and highly politicised.
Thousands of hip replacement operations are performed each year, but today is the first time in Australia that a robot will help with the surgery.
Insects have similar structures in their brains as do we, and that might mean that have a basic form of consciousness.
Regular controversies over breastfeeding might seem like a quirk of contemporary life. But 18th and 19th century clothing reveal that women have been handling the issue of visibility and practicality for centuries.
Over the past year Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions from electricity rose 2.7%.