Apr 25, 2024 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
I had the good fortune to care for the sugar gum at The University of Melbournes Burnley Gardens in Victoria where I worked for many decades. It was a fine tree tall and dominating. Less than a year after my retirement,...
Apr 25, 2024 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Fallout is set in the Los Angeles Wasteland, 219 years after a global nuclear war devastated civilisation. Fortunately, the pre-war defence company Vault-Tec had developed a series of underground bunkers, called vaults,...
Apr 25, 2024 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen penned a 5,000-word manifesto in 2023 that gave a full-throated call for unrestricted technological progress to boost markets, broaden energy production, improve education...
Apr 25, 2024 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The idea that conscription, defined as the compulsory enlistment of citizens for military service, can increase equality and instil a sense of solidarity that transcends traditional societal divides has echoed throughout...
How Anzac deaths changed the way we mourn to this day
Apr 25, 2024 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Victor Farr, a private in the 1st Infantry Battalion, was among the first to land at Anzac Cove just before dawn on April 25 1915. Victor Farr was 20 when he died. Commonwealth of Australia (National Archives of...
Apr 25, 2024 06:06 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a US$95.3 billion foreign aid funding package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on April 23, 2024, following months of political infighting that stalled the bill in the House of...
Our housing system is broken and the poorest Australians are being hardest hit
Apr 25, 2024 06:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this weeks Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like never before. In fact, if you...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects