More households than ever are under-insured. Here’s what needs to be done

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As heavy rainfall and rising floodwaters caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred drench northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, it will take weeks for the full extent of the damage to be assessed. Major flood...

‘What voice do we have?’ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people faced unique challenges during the COVID pandemic

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Its now been five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic. In Australia, as in many other countries around this time, federal and state governments implemented a range of public health measures...

Labor is promising a national food security strategy – but there’s no mention of Australians who are going hungry

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Australias food security is on the political agenda, with Labor flagging a new national strategy if it is re-elected for a second term. Feeding Australia would build-in ways to make the agricultural sector more resilient....

NZ’s glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice – as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change

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Brewster Glacier is thinning and retreating because of extremely low retention of winter snow and high summer melt rates. Lauren Vargo/Victoria University of Wellington, CC BY New Zealand ranks third globally in the...

‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review

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Eon eren/Shutterstock Earlier this year I received comments on an academic manuscript of mine as part of the usual peer review process, and noticed something strange. My research focuses on ensuring trustworthy evidence is...

Children of Paradise is the greatest film to come out of France, even 80 years on

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IMDB It is March 9 1945 in a swanky cinema in Paris. The audience is settling in for the premiere of Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis) the latest work by Marcel Carné, best known for his moody 1930s...

Labor gains in some opinion polls, but the race remains neck-and-neck

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A national Newspoll, conducted March 37 from a sample of 1,255, gave the Coalition a 5149 lead, unchanged since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 39% Coalition (up one), 32% Labor (up one), 12%...