Society
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Rats! Race to Lunar New Year celebration in Melbourne begins
But soon it’s the long-tailed rodent’s time to shine, potentially bringing good luck to the business world. Tom Cowie The…
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New owner discovers $62,000 in cash hidden inside second-hand footstool
It had been purchased around Christmas along with other furniture from a fundraiser shop for the charity Habitat for Humanity…
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Hidden women of history: Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals
Hay Thomson’s two-part article, The Female Side of Kew Asylum for The Argus newspaper revealed the conditions women endured in…
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Banker fined $84 million for smuggling Picasso painting out of Spain
Jaime Botin, the ex-chairman of Bankinter, was also given an 18-month prison term on Thursday but he is unlikely to…
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How Iraq’s relationship with Iran shifted after the fall of Saddam Hussein
The reason he had played cat and mouse with UN weapons inspectors for over a decade was not because he…
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Prohibition Was a Failed Experiment in Moral Governance
A century ago, Prohibition went into effect around the United States, and the evangelical Protestants who had fought for 80…
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Entire Russian government resigns after Vladimir Putin speech
In a shock announcement, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced his government would resign, allowing Putin to appoint a new administration…
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Weather shows evidence of climate change every single day since 2012
A single, torrential rainstorm one day in June. Alejandra Borunda National Geographic An unseasonably warm day in January. A cold…
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Australian father Scott McIntyre freed in Japan after arrest for seeking kids
The case of Scott McIntyre, a freelance sports journalist based in Tokyo, has drawn wide attention to the difficulties in…
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The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won’t speak to another human until Monday’
On Saturday morning, Peter got up and went to the supermarket. Paula Cocozza The Guardian He carried his shopping home,…
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Australia Has Spent More Than $4.5 Million Trying To Deport The Young Family On Christmas Island
The Australian government has spent more than $4.5 million in its attempt to expel a Sri Lankan family of four,…
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Why the ‘golden age’ of political cartooning might be drawing to an end
The power they wield is not to be underestimated. Antony Funnell for Big Ideas ABC news Louis XVI lost his…
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Human Rights Watch launches damning report on China, urging action against oppression and abuses
HRW executive director Kenneth Roth was due to launch the World Report 2020 at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong…
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James Murdoch blasts News Corp’s ‘ongoing climate change denial’
Rupert Murdoch’s youngest son has revealed his “frustration” with News Corp’s coverage of climate change, pointing particularly to the “ongoing…
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She’s Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer, and She Thinks #MeToo Is ‘Dangerous’
It was about an hour into Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial when his lead defense lawyer came under attack. Jan Ransom…
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Australia’s bushfire smoke will do a full lap of the earth: NASA
The smoke has billowed into the lower stratosphere, reaching 17.7 km above sea level, the US space agency NASA said…
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