Global Issues
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Sydney’s ‘ring of fire’: Terrifying map shows suburbs most likely to be ravaged by bushfires tomorrow and why embers could fall on the Opera House
The fires will get worse on Tuesday as the Rural Fire Service warns of a catastrophic danger to Sydney By…
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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…
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Bushfire conditions ‘catastrophic’ for Greater Sydney, Greater Hunter, Illawarra and Shoalhaven
Catastrophic fire danger warnings are in place across Greater Sydney, Greater Hunter, and the Illawarra and Shoalhaven region and around…
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This is not normal: what’s different about the NSW mega fires
My heart goes out to them. Greg Mullins The Sydney Morning Herald I don’t want to detract in any way…
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For farmers climate change is the headline to our lives, but McCormack’s Nationals avert their gaze
There might be a place where “raving inner city lunatics” are the only people who are concerned about climate change…
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Norway set to gain more from drilling in Great Australian Bight than Australia
The Norwegian government stands to gain $400m more from drilling in the Great Australian Bight than the South Australian and…
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‘Designed to torture’: asylum seeker chooses Iranian prison over PNG detention centre
Ariobarzan endured six years of detention inside and outside the barbed wire on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island in the…
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NSW fires destroy more than 100 homes, two people found dead
Two fires are still burning at emergency warning level in NSW — at the height of the chaos yesterday, 17…
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‘Pulling the country backward’: WA government fails to imagine a future state
The state’s solar potential is mind-blowing. World-class by any measure. As the world seeks to lower its emissions, the economic…
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UN experts call Morsi’s death in Egypt ‘arbitrary killing’
“Morsi was held in conditions that can only be described as brutal, particularly during his five-year detention in the Tora…
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Where the farm rain gauge gives a red dirt reading
It’s an absurd routine. She knows there’s no water in it. But it’s interesting sometimes to see how much red…
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‘For three months I lived and breathed pill-testing research’
I am a toxicologist and like all toxicologists I’m interested in ways to minimise harm. Jody Morgan The Sydney Moerning…
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Behind the Insurgent Attack in Southern Thailand
Crisis Group’s South East Asia Senior Analyst, Matt Wheeler, explains what happened and what it means for the stagnant peace-dialogue…
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The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago.
The Berlin Wall was torn down 30 years ago. Ivana Kottasova and Natalie Croker CNN The seismic event sent shock…
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Why Corbynism matters
Late in October, just as temperatures dropped and the nights drew in, more than 1,500 people joined an online conference…
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Ursula von der Leyen seeks new balance
Ursula von der Leyen has lost her balance — at least a bit. By David M. Herszenhorn, Hans von der…
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