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South Asia’s record-breaking weather set to worsen as climate change brings more dangerous monsoon seasons
Last month, as one side of India’s north faced a heatwave with the hottest temperatures on record, Shatadeepa’s hometown in…
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Young women’s memoirs of migration, dispossession and Australian ‘unbelonging’ demand to be heard
Her memoir begins at the age of five, when she fled with her mother and her three siblings from civil…
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Why does everyone seem to have food intolerances these days?
One friend is gluten-free, another is dairy-free, one can’t eat onion and two more are vegetarian. Evangeline Mantzioris The Conversation…
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The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows
It reveals how transporting food across and between countries generates almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector…
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Pablo Picasso was not a lone genius creator – he was at the centre of several creative hubs, and changed the course of western art
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is not presented as the lone genius creator – a mythology promoted by the artist himself –…
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The courage to feel uncomfortable: what Australians need to learn to achieve real reconciliation
This is a call urging all non-Indigenous Australians to be allies and take up unfinished reconciliation actions for a fairer…
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Stolpersteine: UK joins the world’s largest Holocaust memorial
It began life in 1992, when German artist Gunter Demnig laid the first “Stolperstein” – or stumbling stone – in…
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Anne Frank’s diary at 75: why it holds a special place in Holocaust literature
Anne and her family, in hiding in Amsterdam, had been denounced by one Arnold van den Bergh, a well-known notary…
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The ‘Biloela family’ are going home – but what will Labor do with thousands of other asylum seekers in limbo in Australia?
Interim home affairs minister Jim Chalmers said on Friday the Murugappan family (also known as the Nadesalingam family) can finally…
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A Culture That Kills Its Children Has No Future
The grieving people of Uvalde, Texas, a town in the Hill Country about 80 miles west of San Antonio, now…
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How taking a closer look at your family tree can help you get to grips with climate change
Climate conversations are often technical and dry, making it hard to see how it connects to our own lives. Flossie…
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Turkey: why it wants to block Sweden and Finland from joining Nato – and what it stands to lose
Nato member states have cascaded weapons into Ukraine, taken in Ukrainian refugees and imposed severe sanctions on Russia. Christoph Bluth…
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The forgotten children of Saudi Arabia
He’s one of thousands who have been abandoned by their Saudi fathers. Brietta Hague Foreign Correspondent & ABC News But…
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Climate change is now on the menu at seafood restaurants
As it turns out, climate change may have something to do with this. William W. L. Cheung The Conversation Restaurants update…
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Young Indian farmers are turning to an ancient crop to fight water stress and climate change
With 1.4 billion people to feed, and such heatwaves set to become more common, the country clearly needs more sustainable agriculture.…
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Raphael: it’s time we stopped dismissing Italy’s great painter as style over substance
In 1848, a new group of painters who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood identified the art of Raphael as a watershed moment…
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