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Africa
Why Africa’s smallest country is taking on the Rohingya genocide…
Myanmar vehemently denies a genocide has taken place. Susan Hutchinson SBS News / Dateline It has been over two years since the ‘clearance operations’ of the Myanmar military forced hundreds…
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Australasia
Burned-out junior doctors fear they’ll accidentally harm patients
More than 61 per cent of doctors in training were concerned they would make a clinical error due to fatigue caused by the hours they worked, reports the 2019 Hospital…
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Australasia
Sydney’s ‘ring of fire’: Terrifying map shows suburbs most likely…
The fires will get worse on Tuesday as the Rural Fire Service warns of a catastrophic danger to Sydney By Charlie Moore For Daily Mail Australia The suburbs most directly…
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Analysis
Macron’s Islamophobic undercurrent
What exactly is driving French President Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy? By Bruno Maçães Politico He says he wants a more geopolitical Europe, capable of facing up to an increasingly dangerous…
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Analysis
It’s 25 years since we redefined autism – here’s what…
The manual is the clinical “bible” that defines the criteria for the diagnosis of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions, and was a landmark document for autism spectrum disorder. Andrew Whitehouse The…
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Australasia
Bushfire conditions ‘catastrophic’ for Greater Sydney, Greater Hunter, Illawarra and…
Catastrophic fire danger warnings are in place across Greater Sydney, Greater Hunter, and the Illawarra and Shoalhaven region and around 600 schools and TAFE campuses are closed. Bellinda Kontominas ABC…
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Australasia
This is not normal: what’s different about the NSW mega…
My heart goes out to them. Greg Mullins The Sydney Morning Herald I don’t want to detract in any way from the vital safety messages that our fire commissioners and…
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Compassion
Why being kind could help you live longer
Give you a warm glow perhaps, or a feeling of well-being? Lauren Turner BBC News While that may be true, scientists and academics at a new research centre say it…
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Analysis
No, a ‘complex’ system is not to blame for corporate…
That’s the spin flowing freely in the wake of Australian supermarket behemoth Woolworths admitting it had underpaid about 5,700 staff by up to A$300 million. Anthony Forsyth The Conversation Woolies…
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Australasia
The first generations of ‘digi kids’ are struggling with literacy…
A Four Corners investigation has found there are growing fears among education experts that screen time is contributing to a generation of skim readers with poor literacy, who may struggle…
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Australasia
For farmers climate change is the headline to our lives,…
There might be a place where “raving inner city lunatics” are the only people who are concerned about climate change but it is certainly not Michael McCormack’s electorate of Riverina.…
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Analysis
Bilingualism and dementia: how some patients lose their second language…
But what happens when the present is experienced through a different language than the one spoken in childhood? Authors The Conversation And how might carers and care homes cope with…