World
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Why Africa’s smallest country is taking on the Rohingya genocide crisis
Myanmar vehemently denies a genocide has taken place. Susan Hutchinson SBS News / Dateline It has been over two years…
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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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It’s 25 years since we redefined autism – here’s what we’ve learnt
The manual is the clinical “bible” that defines the criteria for the diagnosis of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions, and was…
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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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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,…
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The first generations of ‘digi kids’ are struggling with literacy as experts warn against screen time
A Four Corners investigation has found there are growing fears among education experts that screen time is contributing to a…
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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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Bilingualism and dementia: how some patients lose their second language and rediscover their first
But what happens when the present is experienced through a different language than the one spoken in childhood? Authors The…
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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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‘You’ll get through it’: Three Victorians tell an optimistic tale about mental illness
Driving into work as a pharmacist he’d be brimming with rage and irritation and he had no idea why. Miki…
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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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‘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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An Australian mentoring program for teenagers is being rolled out worldwide
Schoolgirl Rose Quetee was overwhelmed by many things when she arrived in Australia from Liberia five years ago. Sandra Fulloon…
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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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