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WEC 2025 BoP analysis: Aston Martin

What the Hypercar Balance of Performance numbers reveal about performance in the 2025 World Endurance Championship. Today, concluding our series: The Aston Martin Valkyrie. 

Motorsport · Mar 11

'Speechless' Aussie enjoys bumper Indian Wells win

Talia Gibson's most successful week on the WTA Tour has continued at Indian Wells after the Australian downed the seventh seed to reach the last eight.

AAP · Mar 11

Iran's next supreme leader: Khamenei's hardline son Mojtaba

Critics say the younger Khamenei is unqualified for the position.

Axios · Mar 8

What is the future of Australia’s embattled writers festivals?

For more than 65 years, book lovers have descended on Adelaide every summer for Australia’s longest running literary festival. That is, until this year, when around 180 invited authors (including me) boycotted Adelaide Writers Week, following the board’s decision to “uninvite” Palestinian-Australian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. The festival was cancelled.

The Conversation · Feb 4

Zambia’s farmers are working in dangerous heat – how they can protect themselves

Farming is central to life in Zambia, with about 60% of the country’s labour force relying on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihood or income. Seasonal rains shape planting and harvesting, and temperatures can rise to 40°C. On small farms, men generally manage livestock such as cattle and cash crops like…

The Conversation · Feb 4

Marvellous mile win for Myers in New York

Australian teenaged middle-distance star Cameron Myers has held off a pair of gun Americans to win the famous Wanamaker Mile.

AAP · Feb 2

ICE ends Maine surge, Sen. Collins says

The Trump administration is facing a growing bipartisan backlash over immigration enforcement tactics.

Axios · Jan 29

5 years on from the junta’s coup, Myanmar’s flawed elections can’t unite a country at risk of breaking apart

Five years ago, on February 1 2021, Myanmar’s top generals decapitated the elected government. Democratic leaders were arrested, pushed underground or forced into exile.

The Conversation · Jan 27

In ancient Mesopotamia, what was a ziggurat?

A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid.

The Conversation · Jan 26

Australia once enshrined white superiority. These 10 trailblazers helped shift our attitudes to race

In early 20th century Australia, Indigenous people were denied citizenship and the nation had a racially exclusive immigration policy. Most people not only accepted the “White Australia” policy but openly identified with its assumption of white supremacy. Popular culture was replete with overtly racist terms and images.

The Conversation · Jan 25