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Needlecraft: this hobby has a long history as a subversive form of protest

To pass the time while filming, before her eyesight deteriorated, actor Judi Dench could often be found sewing. The picture of submissive femininity, she sat bent over her needlework. The finished work however, which she gave as gifts, were actually expletive-filled insults worked in ornate embroidery.

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Why delaying climate action now means higher seas by 2100 – new research

Imagine your favourite sunny beach. Anywhere will do. You look out and see the ocean stretching to the horizon. To a glaciologist, that view is not just water; it’s melted ice.

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The many literary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – author of novels, travel writing and children’s books

In his biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, written after her death, her husband William Godwin remarked of her travel writing: “If ever there was a book calculated to make a man fall in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.”

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is an early exploration of ‘romance fraud’

Shrinking into her yellowing wedding gown with the decay of her wedding breakfast around her, Miss Havisham, from Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel, Great Expectations, is one of the best-known characters in English literature.

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Could warming seas bring great white sharks back to the North Sea? A 5-million-year-old shark tooth may provide clues

As the Earth shifts to climates not seen for several hundred thousand years, we may need to look at ancient environments for clues about what could happen next.

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Why Italy’s Giorgia Meloni broke with Donald Trump

The Italian prime minister and leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni, has made fostering ties with foreign leaders a central part of her political strategy. A few years before winning Italy’s 2022 general elections, she started cultivating ties with the US and European conservative world as…

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Meta and Microsoft have joined the tech layoff tsunami. Is AI really to blame?

Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI).

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Chernobyl’s exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity – but it faces new threats from Russia’s invasion

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident caused the largest ever release of radioactive material into the environment, and at the time people predicted that the affected area would be rendered uninhabitable, devoid of life…

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Australian farmers are battling another potential mouse plague – what is causing it?

Got a mouse in your house? That thought alone may terrify you.

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NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean?

This week the government unveiled plans to reduce the number of people in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by 160,000 over the next four years, a decision NDIS Minister Mark Butler has called “hard” but “unavoidable and urgent”.

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Landmark privacy determination puts rent tech platforms on notice. But renters remain vulnerable

One of Australia’s most-used tenancy application platforms has breached privacy laws, Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has ruled.

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Banks must cancel direct debits on request. Why isn’t it the same for card payments?

Have you ever noticed that cancelling some subscriptions feels as simple as walking out a clearly marked “exit” door, while others are like trying to escape a complex maze? It’s one of the big frustrations of modern life.

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‘They’re my people’: radio presenter James Valentine truly understood and valued his audience

If the news of former ABC Sydney radio presenter James Valentine’s death hit you hard, and you’re wondering why, it makes sense to me.

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Anne Hathaway’s inshallah moment goes viral. Here’s what it means, and when it can be used

Three days ago, People magazine posted a clip from an interview with actor Anne Hathaway, who is currently on a global press tour. One of the questions concerned Hathaway’s feelings about ageing. In her response she – a non-Muslim – casually threw the word “inshallah” in mid-sentence.

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What does disadvantage look like in Australia? New research shows who’s struggling most

The Australian government just released the 2026 report of the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee.

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In a fractured world order, where does the global south fit in?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was one of the first world leaders to speak out about the “ruptured” world order caused by the Trump administration in the United States. He called for middle powers to band together to safeguard what’s left of the liberal world order.

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No power, all influence: How One Nation gets what it wants

One Nation has never held government, nor has it ever been in opposition. Yet it’s managed to influence public policy in Australia for three decades.

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No diesel, no power: why the global oil shock is hitting NZ’s small Pacific neighbours hard

When Tuvalu recently moved to declare a state of emergency, it laid bare a major vulnerability long faced by New Zealand’s small and far-flung Pacific neighbours.

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More shearwaters are washing up dead on Australian beaches. It’s not due to ‘natural’ causes

You might know the short-tailed shearwater and sable shearwater by the common name “muttonbirds”. These two species of seabird breed on islands off southeastern Australia. Both undertake a breathtaking two-week, non-stop flight across the Pacific to the Bering Sea, more than 10,000 km away near Alaska and Russia. Here, they…

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The AFL’s Anzac Day game: how a shared tradition became a two-club monopoly

On Anzac Day, Collingwood and Essendon will meet at the MCG for their annual blockbuster in front of more than 90,000 people.

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The ABC’s new workplace comedy about a theatre, Bad Company, simply mocks from the outside

There’s a line in the opening moments of Anne Edmonds’ Bad Company that announces the show’s premise: “Money is the death of creativity”.

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Anzac then and now: as trans-Tasman defence relations get closer, NZ must be on guard

Anzac Day 2026 arrives in tumultuous times: unresolved conflict in the Middle East, the erosion of the old international order, the famous Doomsday Clock set closer to midnight than ever before.

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Why the Southeast is burning – extreme drought is only part of the reason

Large parts of the southeastern U.S. are in the midst of an exceptional drought, and it is fueling dozens of wildfires in Florida and Georgia.

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Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s ‘nuclear deterrent’

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Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ brings hasty decisions with long-lasting implications, outside of its usual careful deliberation

The recent publication of confidential Supreme Court memoranda by The New York Times has brought to light a pivotal moment in the court’s history. “The birth of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket has long been a mystery,” wrote reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak. “Until now.”

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