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Nicole Kidman is training to be a ‘death doula’. What is a death doula?

This week, Nicole Kidman revealed she is training to become a death doula. She told an audience at the University of San Francisco it “may sound a little weird”, but she was inspired after her mother died in 2024.

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The court ruling in Gina Rinehart’s mining dispute reveals a lot about the nation’s inherited wealth

In a decision described by the judge as “a half-win” for each side, mining magnate Gina Rinehart has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties to the heirs of Peter Wright, the business partner of her father, Lang Hancock.

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What is the 25th Amendment and could it be used to remove Trump from office?

US President Donald Trump’s recent intemperate exchanges with the pope, his depiction of himself as a Christ-like figure and his threat to wipe out the civilisation of Iran have raised questions about his mental capacity to carry out his job.

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Iran has a powerful new tool in the Strait of Hormuz that it can leverage long after the war

The Trump administration claims its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is working, with nine ships complying with orders to turn around.

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Australia’s aged care algorithm is under fire. At last, someone’s listening

The way Australians are assessed for home-based aged-care funding is being investigated by the Commonwealth ombudsman.

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How Trump’s repeated efforts to fire Federal Reserve Chair Powell harm the economy – and make battling inflation harder

President Donald Trump has again threatened to oust Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, putting at risk a keystone of good economic policy and inflation management: central bank independence.

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How do teens really use AI companions? With more creativity than you might think

In 2022, the founders of chatbot startup Character.AI launched a platform where anyone could create interactive characters powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

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The Middle East crisis has exposed NZ to a global fertiliser shock. Where is its plan?

New Zealand and Australia like to think of themselves as food powerhouses.

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The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember

Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them.

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Fear is the aphrodisiac in Fiona Kelly McGregor’s new novel The Trap

Fiona Kelly McGregor’s The Trap follows her successful novel Iris (2022), set in the criminal underworld of Sydney during the Great Depression.

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Can we consider ‘play’ to be a religion? Bluey certainly thinks so

Most of us are used to thinking of “religion” in terms of a belief in God or gods. Perhaps the big hitters of world belief systems come to mind – Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism or, in Australia, the Dreamtime.

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What can you actually put in your yellow recycling bin? An environmental scientist explains

Most of us want to recycle, but it can sometimes be hard to know exactly how.

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The Greens are relaunching their party think tank. What do these organisations do?

The appointment of former high profile Greens federal housing spokesperson and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s arch nemesis, Max Chandler-Mather, as executive director of the party’s think tank – the Green Institute – raises several important questions.

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Thinking about acupuncture or herbs for menopause? Read this first

Hot flushes, night sweats or swinging mood changes are some of the most common symptoms of menopause – the stage of a woman’s life when menstrual periods stop permanently, and she is no longer fertile.

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Employment data shows the early signs of AI job disruption are already here

There has been no shortage of bold claims recently about artificial intelligence (AI) and jobs — from mass unemployment to over-hyped distraction. Much of this debate is speculative. Often, coming from the tech giants promoting their own products, it is self-serving.

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Iran’s military forces combine state-of-the-art drones and hackers with out-of-date conventional weapons

Six weeks of U.S. and Israeli bombardment have served to degrade Iran’s nuclear facilities and cripple parts of its military.

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Canada cannot afford to lose international research talent — here’s what needs to change

The Canadian government launched the Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative in December 2025 designed to entice international researchers to come to Canada.

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How commercial sand dredging is reshaping the largest lake in the UK – new study

At Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, sand has been dredged commercially for decades. Large vessels remove sand from the lakebed and transport it to the shore. Because this happens underwater, the scale of the activity is largely invisible. Regulation has focused on where dredging is allowed and how much sand…

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Netflix’s ‘The Dinosaurs’ rehashes a very old story — of empire and conquest

“This is the story of the dinosaurs as it has never been told before,” narrates Morgan Freeman in the opening of Neflix’s The Dinosaurs docuseries.

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National Car Parks is in administration – some big companies are so dependent on debt that they can’t adjust to change

When the UK’s biggest private car park company went into administration last month, some motorists might have been surprised. How could National Car Parks (NCP), a company that charged so much for parking, at so many prime sites across the country, run out of road?

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Why the US and Israel’s alliance endures – even when it strains

Israel and the US have maintained a close alliance for decades. Their recent joint air campaign in Iran has once again underscored the depth of this partnership. Yet while the strength of their relationship is widely acknowledged, the reasons behind it remain contested.

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Taskmaster returns: five lessons in creativity from TV’s most absurd challenges

The Bafta-winning comedy game show, Taskmaster, has returned to Channel 4 for its 21st series. Part of the show’s long-running appeal is its lighthearted exhibition of human creativity.

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All The President’s Men at 50: how a trusted US media covered politics in the 1970s

This month marks the 50th anniversary of a much-revered classic of American cinema, All The President’s Men.

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Waking at 3am every night? Here’s what may be going on

It’s 3am. The room is dark, the house is silent, but your brain is suddenly wide awake.

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US blockade of Strait of Hormuz ratchets up tensions with China ahead of Trump visit to Beijing

The Trump administration’s decision to carry out a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has raised tensions in the Persian Gulf to new and more perilous levels. The move was announced by the US president, Donald Trump, after negotiations over a ceasefire with Iran broke down on April 11,…

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