Despite another interest rate hike by the Reserve Bank, the Labor government’s polling has improved.

https://theconversation.com/labor-and-the-greens-improve-in-newspoll-and-resolve-and-one-nation-drop...

Winston Peters says New Zealand foreign policy should address “the world as it is, not how we wish it would be”. But how viable is that really?

https://theconversation.com/is-nzs-foreign-policy-realism...

Highly trained canines, Sugar and Moss, are helping protect the critically endangered Victorian grassland earless dragon.

https://theconversation.com/our-detection-dogs-are-helping-protect-one-of-austr...

Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s Hell Days explores her diagnosis of PMDD, an extreme form of premenstrual syndrome – drawing on research, interviews, reading and...

https://theconversation.com/an-australian...

Une nouvelle étude montre comment l'approche « Brown is Beautiful » de Windhoek pourrait tirer parti de son paysage aride pour protéger la ville.

https://theconversation.com/le-brun-est-beau-ce-que-win...

Wildfires are a growing issue in the UK, with incidents escalating in 2026.

https://theconversation.com/wildfires-are-now-an-escalating-risk-heres-how-the-uk-needs-to-prepare-ahead-of-next-summer-29230...

Disputes from 1944 to today trace the increasingly central role of government funding in shaping working conditions in the arts.

https://theconversation.com/arts-centre-melbourne-workers-face-a-battle-...

Geetanjali Shree’s writing is an audacious blend of literary Hindi and an array of local dialects.

https://theconversation.com/geetanjali-shrees-radical-fiction-written-in-hindi-is-finding-a-global-aud...

Despite a slump in Albanese’s approval rate, he maintains a comfortable lead as preferred prime minister.

https://theconversation.com/newspoll-has-combined-right-vote-down-but-albaneses-ratings-slump-2...

We need to carefully study what happens to frogs after we intervene to save them.

https://theconversation.com/we-can-help-frogs-beat-a-deadly-disease-but-can-they-still-reproduce-288085

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Les résultats des matchs disputés par les quatre nations d'Afrique du Nord mettent en évidence des modèles contrastés de développement du football.

https://theconversation.com/les-equipes-nord-africain...

Pointing to the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, the high court ruled that all babies born in the United States ‘are citizens by birth.’

https://theconversation.com/in-a-rebuke-to-trump-the-su...

The full effects of the ban may not be clear for a decade.

https://theconversation.com/85-of-kids-are-still-using-social-media-despite-ban-but-we-need-a-new-measure-to-judge-its-success-285946

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Prison sentences for drug offences in Fiji sometimes surpass those for rape and murder and are out of line with penalties in Australia and New Zealand.

https://theconversation.com/how-drug-demand-in-ne...

After dozens of wars between the two ancient empires of Rome and Persia, peace deals often failed to solve problems – and sometimes made the situation worse.

https://theconversation.com/will-a-peace-de...

There was space and money for him to explore and try things out, luxuries that today’s students don’t have.

https://theconversation.com/david-hockneys-success-is-a-testament-to-a-britain-that-supported...

Reform UK’s candidate has been at pains to tell voters he’s not a career politician.

https://theconversation.com/will-ordinariness-be-enough-to-swing-the-result-in-makerfield-285105

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Two defence resignations come at a time of turmoil for the prime minister.

https://theconversation.com/what-john-healeys-resignation-as-defence-secretary-means-for-keir-starmer-and-the-uk-285111

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An obscure Belgian soccer player arguably made a bigger mark on the world game than stars such as Diego Maradona and Cristiano Ronaldo.

https://theconversation.com/game-changers-how-soccers-mega-money-...

In Yñiga, Glenn Diaz gives readers a glimpse into his country’s history in the only way that would do it justice.

https://theconversation.com/the-philippines-brutal-history-informs-glenn-diazs-powerful...

From the 750s on, the Vikings’ advanced shipbuilding technology helped give them the edge.

https://theconversation.com/the-high-tech-shipbuilding-methods-that-helped-vikings-dominate-the-seas-280155

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It’s now technically possible to green many heavy industries. The challenge is doing it at scale.

https://theconversation.com/can-australia-green-its-heavy-industry-its-hard-but-necessary-271313

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The pivotal waterway is much more than a global economic choke point. It is a politically and culturally dynamic region with its own dangerous undercurrents.

https://theconversation.com/strait-of-hormu...

More than a hundred years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is granting us new insights into deep time.

https://theconversation.com/an-extinct-echidna-the-size-of-a-small-chil...

Silence would mean accepting and surrendering to the Taliban’s power, writes one of these authors. Theirs are the voices of resistance.

https://theconversation.com/the-taliban-wages-war-on-women-but-th...

A new method that uses a simple air sample and the power of a dog’s nose makes it easy to check shipping containers for trafficked wildlife.

https://theconversation.com/dogs-can-detect-trafficked-wildl...

New research shows Victoria’s commitment to open justice is under serious threat – and that has big implications for all of us.

https://theconversation.com/open-justice-no-more-how-victorias-courts-are...

Il faudrait passer d’une logique du tout couper à une réponse proportionnée et traçable.

https://theconversation.com/suspension-des-reseaux-sociaux-au-gabon-pourquoi-la-mesure-aggrave-la-crise-au-lieu-...

Sometimes what you need is not a couples counsellor; it’s a sex therapist.

https://theconversation.com/is-couples-counselling-right-for-me-and-will-the-therapist-take-sides-an-expert-explains-275431

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It’s possible to provide truly anonymous age checks online – but it takes investment.

https://theconversation.com/age-verification-online-can-be-done-safely-and-privately-heres-how-276104

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