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Kate Spade has been found dead in New York, age 55. Her handbags, first released in the early-1990s, introduced young professional women to affordable luxury.
Paramedics face traumatic situations every day. They need policies to ensure support is provided in the immediate aftermath of trauma, and early access to mental health care.
Important points about volcanoes: location matters, explosiveness can be predicted to an extent, and fast-moving flows of volcanic materials (known as pyroclastic flows) are deadly.
There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all plan for sustainable, healthy urban living. Urban diaries help identify what works – and doesn’t work – for tropical cities like Cairns or Townsville.
China has taken an incremental approach to cementing its control over the disputed waters, making the US and its allies powerless to stop it.
Ken dolls with a ‘man bun’. Female superhero action figures. At long last, the gendered distinctions of the pink and blue toy aisles are starting to break down.
Cyber deterrence is based on outdated ideas developed during the Cold War, but with cyber crime projected to hit US$6 trillion by 2021, cyber security requires new approaches.
Listen up. Today we’re hearing all about why your ears pop when you go up, up, up and away.
From 2020, ANU will require students to meet co-curricular requirements alongside ATAR. This significant policy shift is meant to improve equity of access, but won’t change much.
Some US$4.6 trillion has been made available to stave off financial crises across the world. The problem is that much of this funding is now spoken for, and the list of stricken nations is growing.
Research shows for every 100 healthy adults vaccinated against influenza, 99 get no benefit.
Australia’s willingness to include Huawei and ZTE in its 5G mobile infrastructure should be based on a rational analysis of risks. We take a look at current and past court cases brought against them.
ReachTEL polls show Labor is behind in key byelections, but Essential has better news for Bill Shorten.
Rather than solving any problems, sex bots could be empowerment tools for those who sexually offend against women and children. But more evidence is needed to know for sure.
One problem with Airbnb is that it isn’t transparent about how many properties are truly ‘shared’ and how many are just part of a letting business. Regulators need to know that to manage the impacts.
Federico Garcia Lorca’s shocking civil war play is successfully transferred to the Australian desert by the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Simply having an offence of industrial manslaughter on the statute books cannot by itself lower workplace death rates.
At least half the food eaten by the first Australians came from plants. And in terms of medicines, many different parts of plants were used.
The 1970s transformed Australian drama. It was a time of imaginative brilliance as the Empire wrote back.
Just when we thought the dual citizenship debacle was coming to an end, there may be another sting in our Constitution’s tail.
Businesses are weighing up the costs of queuing and using innovative ways to minimise these costs by doing away with queues.
Same person or different person? Most people are extremely good at recognising faces of people they know well, but not so much strangers. See how well you perform on the tests in this story.
Traditional Aboriginal healers are recognised as having special facilities for healing in childhood and are encouraged to develop their skills. They are often taught by their grandparents.
Technology is currently not at the forefront of how work-integrated learning is designed and this is something educators need to address.