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Australia’s youth justice crisis needs national leadership. The Senate inquiry is helpful but isn’t enough

At a time when youth justice policy across Australia has taken an increasingly punitive turn, a federal Senate inquiry has laid out the evidence for a different path. It stopped short, however, of recommending the range of reforms needed.

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Intergenerational Report says AI will be ‘a defining influence’ on Australia’s economy over next 40 years

Artificial intelligence (AI) will be “a defining influence” on Australia’s economy over the next 40 years, according to the Intergenerational Report (IGR) released by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Monday. Australia is also expected to experience lower growth, a decline in the birth rate and unending budget deficits.

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Australia in the 2060s: an optimistic outlook dominates budget forecasts in the Intergenerational Report

This year’s Intergenerational Report (IGR) highlights AI, population ageing and geopolitical fragmentation. It is a tribute to optimistic forecasts.

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From Mumbai to Perth and beyond, Neha Kale considers, art, colonialism and ideas of home

Neha Kale’s A Foreign Return: On Art and Inhabitation seamlessly entwines memoir with art criticism. It’s a long consideration of art, colonisation, nostalgia and the places we may call home.

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Labor and Albanese slump to new lows in Newspoll, but Labor improves in a DemosAU poll

Labor’s primary vote in Newspoll was down two points to 27%, their worst Newspoll since 2012 and just one point above their record low. Anthony Albanese’s net approval slumped six points to a new low of -27.

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Opportunity’s ‘tax reset’ could benefit many households – but does little for the poorest

With the Opportunity Party on the cusp of the 5% threshold to make it into parliament after the November 7 election, its signature “tax reset” proposal deserves close attention.

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Personality tests, dodgy reward programs, AI bots: how rent tech platforms make renting a ‘dehumanising’ experience

If you’re renting a house or apartment, you’re probably all too familiar with rent tech: online systems and apps for searching and applying for properties, paying rent and logging maintenance requests.

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Are girls getting their periods earlier? And can parents do anything about it?

Do you remember how old you were when you got your first period? And whether it was considered early, late or about average?

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School holidays are coming. Here’s how families can keep some sort of routine

School holidays mean more free time and less structure.

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After the EU’s offer to Canada, could Australia also embrace a ‘Eurovision’?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s bold move to have Canada join the European Union (EU) as an “associate member” has led to discussion of Australia following in Canada’s footsteps. After all, Australia has been represented in the Eurovision song contest since 2015, so why not join the EU?

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Canada is managing migration without taking a sledgehammer approach. Here’s how Australia can, too

Australia’s migration debate is at fever pitch, with both the government and One Nation announcing policies on the subject in the past week.

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Alberta’s education reforms tell students public life is safest when differences are hidden

In May 2026, the Alberta government enacted Bill 25, an An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms.

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Living with chronic pain at work: Supportive managers can help, but they can’t solve everything

“I don’t want the pain to define me. I want me to define me.”

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How to tackle persistent drought: Lessons from British Columbia

British Columbia has endured another extreme drought with damaging impacts seen across the province: a watershed emergency declared by the Syilx Okanagan Nation, 70 per cent water use reductions for agricultural producers in Vernon, regulatory orders to protect salmon and explosive wildfires driven by severe drought conditions.

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Nepal could show the world how to recover sustainably from a major disaster

With chances of further sensational hydropower tunnel rescues dimming, the devastating ice-rock avalanche in August at the Nepal-Tibet border and catastrophic floods downstream are no longer making global headlines.

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Australia set for 39 million people by mid-2060s – but slower population growth

Australia’s population is projected to reach 39.3 million in 2065-66 but its rate of growth will have slowed, according to the Intergenerational Report (IGR) released Monday.

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Trump declares victory in Greenland, but the deal exposes a deeper crisis of trust

US President Donald Trump is already presenting the new security agreement between the United States, Denmark and Greenland as a personal triumph.

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Demolishing Lagos informal settlements also destroys the city’s best defences against climate change

In a waterfront settlement in Lagos, Nigeria, I watched from the shoreline as two men worked a stretch of lagoon from their canoe. One held the boat steady. The other dived underwater a few metres, then surfaced with a bucket full of sand, emptied it into the canoe, and went…

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Teenage girls may know how to prevent pregnancy – that doesn’t mean they have the power to do it

Teenage pregnancy is often explained in simple terms. Girls are said to lack knowledge about contraception, take sexual risks or make poor choices.

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Annie Dillard brought poetry into prose, pioneering a mystical form of creative nonfiction that critics both admired and misunderstood

Annie Dillard is rightly celebrated as a pioneer in creative nonfiction after her death on Sep. 15, 2026, at age 81. But the dazzling, disorienting feel of Dillard’s work might be best understood as the often overlooked influence of poetry on her prose.

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John Vanbrugh at 300: the man described as ‘the Shakespeare of architecture’

Every generation discovers its own heroes. I found mine in 2026. He died in 1726 and his name is John Vanbrugh (1664-1726). I’m not the first to discover him, of course, and I am in stellar company. This year has seen the Vanbrugh300 tercentenary celebrations of Vanbrugh’s life and legacy,…

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Who do you trust in an emergency? We asked people in places hit by extreme weather

One evening in August 2025, a Pakistani shepherd, Abuzar Hussain, was tending sheep and goats in the mountainous slopes of Shijar. At about 6pm, a thunderous roar shattered the silence of the valley.

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Neuroscience offers new insights into how our brain solves ‘the cocktail party problem’

Imagine you are at a cocktail party. The room is crowded, people are coming and going, and you can barely hear your friend as they tell you some juicy gossip about the date they went on last week.

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Stop adapting Jane Austen! Five other 18th-century writers perfect for the screen

With new adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility arriving on our screens this autumn, television’s long-running love affair with Jane Austen shows little sign of abating. But there are other 18th-century writers with whom TV could have a wonderful love affair, too.

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