Immigration debate and visa uncertainty are putting students off and increasing pressure on budgets

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

It could have been a very smart, exciting and world-first energy policy initiative. But now we can see the results, it’s clear that Solar Sharer has gone terribly wrong.

South West locals say the WA government's support for ecological thinning is deeply concerning, and a number of scientists agree. 

Even the United States is now criticising Israel's ongoing settler violence in the West Bank as Benjamin Netanyahu, once the "Trump whisperer", becomes the Trump ignorer.

In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade ban More than 100 French and British former diplomats have said Palestine is being erased in front of the world’s eyes and called for urgent action including trade and arms sales bans to press Israel to accept a Palestinian state. An unprecedented joint letter dispenses with diplomatic language by accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and warning that the world no longer sees Israel as a genuine democracy. Uphold the decisions of the international court of justice and the international criminal court. Suspend the EU-Israel association agreement and the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement for breach of human rights provisions. Suspend arms transfers to and from Israel and all bilateral military cooperation. Insist on unrestricted aid access to Gaza, led by the UN Relief and Works Agency, other UN agencies and international NGOs, with consequences for non-compliance, and access too for journalists, diplomats and parliamentarians. Ban all trade with settlements, including goods, investment, insurance and other financial services. Warn potential bidders for the “red line” E1 settlement or other settlement financing/construction that their interests in and with the UK and France will suffer. Make it an offence for British and French citizens to buy property on stolen Palestinian land and remove charitable status from “charities” funding settlements. Continue reading...

This week, the Albanese government, in goose-stepping sync with the Liberals and One Nation, will push into law the “ASIO...

Under Afghanistan's brutal four-tier hierarchy your social status determines how badly you can be punished

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Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it her. Andrew Brown

Private health insurers are making their way into your doctor's office and the specialists they refer you to. It may not be to your benefit.

Matthew Jukes, one of Britain's best-known wine writers, has died suddenly while on holiday with his family in Portugal. He was 58.

A handful of Palestinian producers somehow make brilliant wines against all the odds in the occupied West Bank and Israel. Plus: what I've been drinking this week

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A Monash University professor has told the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion of the importance of Holocaust teachings.

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex

The actors Lindsay Duncan and Charles Dance, alongside director Peter Webber, pay tribute to a practical joker, unpretentious craftsman and ‘very cool guy’

The tide has turned a little at the Royal Commission into Antisemitism with a second Jewish witness breaking from the Zionist narrative

Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial * Middle East crisis live – latest updates One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors is almost unrecognisable because of severe injuries inflicted in Israeli detention, his lawyer said, and faces “tangible danger to his life” after being held for 18 months without charge or trial. Hussam Abu Safiya met his lawyer on 2 July, after a transfer to Israel’s notorious underground Rakefet prison in late June. He had difficulty breathing and speaking continuously, was so weak he struggled to sit upright, and repeatedly seemed on the verge of losing consciousness, said his lawyer, Nasser Odeh. Continue reading...

The frenzied rollout of AI data centres in Australia is rushing through massive new projects, which will derail Australia’s energy transition unless the government urgently intervenes.

Under the Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991 (SBS Act), SBS can generate revenue by broadcasting and publishing advertising (including sponsorship announcements). Advertising provides a valuable...

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to b...

In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – and it’s global

The reality captured by a UN body's comprehensive report on Israel's intentional killing of Palestinian children will go unread by most. For those who do, we despair.

ALT: Lush Forest Stream with Wooden Path

"Proactively harming people is not something that I can or will be involved with," a Google director wrote in his resignation letter.

Australia’s complicity in Israel’s atrocities has many ugly layers. It’s worse than the bomb release mechanism on the F-35 death...

The Return of the Banned Supercrop – Why Hemp is the Answer to Australia’s Housing and Climate Crisis Dedication: To my wife – who is not a hippie but likes her garden. The Plant that [...]