Rates will never be enough – councils need the power to raise money in other ways

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Getty Images You might have recently received voting papers for your local body elections. Going by our historically low participation rates, many of those envelopes will remain unopened. This is a shame, because New...

What would Australia be willing to go to war over? This needs to be made clear in our defence strategy

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In 2024, the National Defence Strategy made deterrence Australias primary strategic defence objective. With writing now underway for the 2026 National Defence Strategy, can Australia actually deter threats to the nation?...

Tiny dips in sea level reveal flow of climate-regulating underwater waterfalls

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NASA ICE via Flickr, CC BY Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of metres...

The rise of Brazil’s fuel mafias and their gas station money laundering machines

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Brazils federal police recently pulled back the curtain on a criminal web that had infiltrated the countrys fuel distribution chains. What looked like ordinary gas stations were, in fact, outposts of a vast laundering...

A landmark ruling will tackle the gender pay gap for thousands of workers

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Lordn/Shutterstock The Fair Work Commission has found award pay rates in five industrial awards covering a range of female-dominated occupations and industries do not provide equal pay. This important decision should...

The government has pledged $10 million for inclusive LGBTQIA+ health care. Here’s what that means

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Lee Charlie/Shutterstock Last week, the federal government announced a $10 million commitment to make Medicare more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ Australians. It aims to improve their access to inclusive, culturally safe primary...

Australia had a national reckoning over domestic violence, but where’s the focus this election?

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For most of this federal election campaign, politicians have said very little about violence against women and children. Now in the fourth week of the five-week campaign, Labor has released its commitment to women...