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Peter Dutton promises $6 billion 12-month halving of petrol and diesel excise

Opposition leader Peter Dutton will promise in his Thursday budget reply that a Coalition government would immediately halve the fuel excise on petrol and diesel.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers and Angus Taylor on tax top-ups and budget bottom lines

As the election starter’s gun is about to be fired, Tuesday’s budget announced modest income tax cuts as the government’s latest cost-of-living measure. The Coalition has opposed the tax relief, with Peter Dutton’s Thursday budget reply to put forward his policy counters on the cost of living.

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How foreign accents subconsciously shape the way we interact

Imagine that you invite a friend, a non-native speaker of your own language, round for dinner. While cooking, you get distracted and the food ends up burnt to a crisp. Once the smoke detector stops shrieking, your friend might crack a joke to puncture the tension, something along the lines…

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Kenya’s decision to make maths optional in high school is a bad idea – what should happen instead

Kenya’s education ministry announced in March 2025 that mathematics would be an optional subject in senior secondary school, which begins in grade 10. Most students in this grade are aged 15 years. The education minister said the mathematics taught from grade 4 to grade 9 was sufficient for foundational “numeracy…

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Scam Factories: The inside story of Southeast Asia’s fraud compounds - Part 3

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Scam Factories: The inside story of Southeast Asia’s fraud compounds - Part 2

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Scam Factories: The inside story of Southeast Asia’s fraud compounds - Part 1

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Diving through time: South Australia’s flooded caves hide a rich megafauna history

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Can you spot a rip current? Take our 5-minute quiz on Australia’s number-one coastal hazard

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‘The bush calls us’: the defiant women who demanded a place on the walking track

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Fire revival: how Australia’s desert people use ancient wisdom to protect the endangered bilby

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Going to the dentist is expensive. Here are 3 things you can do to protect your oral health – and 3 things to avoid

Around one in three Australians delayed their visit to a dentist in the last financial year – or didn’t go at all – due to cost.

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The 2025 federal budget fails the millions of voters who want action on Australia’s struggling environment

Commentators have branded last night’s federal budget as an attempt to win over typical Australian voters concerned about the cost of living, ahead of what is expected to be a tightly fought federal election.

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Non-compete clauses make it too hard to change jobs. Banning them for millions of Australians is a good move

The Labor government used this week’s budget to announce it plans to ban non-compete agreements for employees on less than A$175,000 per year, a move that will affect about 3 million Australian workers.

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Our work and home lives are blending more than ever – how do we navigate this new ‘zigzag’ reality?

For decades, researchers examined work and home life as separate domains. If they were taken together it was usually to study so-called work-life balance.

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What makes a good search engine? These 4 models can help you use search in the age of AI

Every day, users ask search engines millions of questions. The information we receive can shape our opinions and behaviour.

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Australia stands firm behind its foreign aid in the budget, but the future remains precarious

This week’s budget will come as a relief to Australia’s neighbours in the Indo-Pacific that rely on development assistance. The Albanese government did not follow the lead of US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in cutting its foreign aid.

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Leak of US military plans on Signal is a classic case of ‘shadow IT’. It shows why security systems need to be easy to use

Yesterday, The Atlantic magazine revealed an extraordinary national security blunder in the United States. Top US government officials had discussed plans for a bombing campaign in Yemen against Houthi rebels in a Signal group chat which inadvertently included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.

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What works to prevent violence against women? Here’s what the evidence says

Journalist and activist Jess Hill’s Quarterly Essay argues Australia’s primary prevention framework to end violence against women isn’t working.

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Budget delivers cheaper medicines and more bulk billing but leaves out long-term health reform

Less than two months from an election, the Albanese government last night presented a budget that aims to swing the voting pendulum its way.

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How Netflix has shaped (and shattered) our content landscape over the past decade – and what comes next

To mark 10 years since Netflix began operating in Australia, we and our colleagues at the Streaming Industries and Genres Network have published a report that looks at the state of Australia’s streaming industry today – and back at the platforms that have failed over the years.

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Is this the right budget for these economic times? We asked 5 experts

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has described the income tax cuts in this week’s federal budget as a “top-up”. They will amount to roughly one cup of coffee a week for every taxpayer in the first year.

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A $33 billion vote-grabber or real relief? Examining the Albanese government’s big housing pledge

The Australian housing market is in crisis: soaring prices, increasing rental stress, declining home ownership rates and a growing number of people experiencing homelessness.

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Protecting salmon farming at the expense of the environment – another step backwards for Australia’s nature laws

A bill introduced to parliament this week, if passed, would limit the government’s power to reconsider certain environment approvals when an activity is harming the environment.

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Maritime truce would end a sorry war on the waves for Russia that set back its naval power ambitions

Away from the grueling land battles and devastating airstrikes, the Ukraine war has from its outset had a naval element. Soon after the February 2022 invasion, Russia imposed a de facto naval blockade on Ukraine, only to see its fleet stunningly defeated during a contest for control of the Black…

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