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Saltwater-crocodile farming in the Northern Territory has been lauded for saving the species from near extinction, but the untold story is one of animal cruelty and exploitation.

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December 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Ten years after ‘The Dry’, the bestselling author treads similar ground, but her story of townsfolk dispossessed by a coalmine takes place in an Australia devoid of history.

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December 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Melbourne’s on-again off-again embrace of street art is now tested by the trial of the alleged artist behind ‘Pam the Bird’.

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December 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Watching the installation of Archie Moore’s monumental Venice Biennale Golden Lion–winning work ‘kith and kin’ in Brisbane’s QAGOMA.

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December 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A memory powerfully triggered by a scent highlights the way imagination and experience are entwined.

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December 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
As climate protests gather force around the country, what is driving a wide range of people from despair to direct action?

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December 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Memory, empathy and resistance in the age of the oligarchs.

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December 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A writing prize helped the author realise his dream of buying a house – until he realised he was dreaming.

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December 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Overshadowed by her more famous spouse, the nearly 98-year-old is a great who has delivered a lifetime’s worth of inquiring, abstract works.

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December 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
With the inexorable rise of AI – in everyday tech, in public and private communications, in our universities – the value and distinctness of the written word is under siege.

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December 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
As the Catholic Church finds a new legal defence against child sexual abuse charges, disgust with the late cardinal George Pell’s glorification has now led some of his own victims to come forward and detail their abuse at his hand.

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December 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Despite his senior position in the government, his factional heft within the Labor Party and the critical importance of his portfolio, the defence minister is unusually lacking in enthusiastic supporters.

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December 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
In a class action loss against Bayer for harms caused by its Essure contraceptive device, some saw familiar failures of medicine and the law when it comes to female bodies.

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December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A scandal in Australia’s space science community suggests the need for increased rigour in reviewing possible research misconduct in our universities.

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