Friday essay: Jon Faine on why our social cohesion should not be taken for granted

Australia has been, and continues to be, remarkably resilient. But the fragile machinery of democracy needs some long overdue ...

If the US resumes nuclear weapons testing, this would be extremely dangerous for humanity

All of the nine nuclear-armed nations are investing huge sums in new weapons. And the numbers of nuclear weapons “available ...

Labor’s environmental law overhaul: a little progress and a lot of compromise

Labor’s long-awaited environmental reforms do represent progress. But ambition levels have been dialled back and much depends ...

When the dam broke: the 1925 disaster that reshaped a Welsh community and a country’s safety laws

A century after a dam burst in Dolgarrog, killing 16 people, the Welsh village still lives with the legacy that reshaped UK ...

Sharia law isn’t taking over Britain – it’s an inevitable legacy of its colonial legal history

Claims that sharia law threatens Britain’s legal system ignore the country’s history of accommodating multiple legal ...

Voters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading across the country

With a new, mid-cycle redistricting war raging in state after state, the media and politicians focus on which party is ...

Rate my AI teacher? Students’ perceptions of chatbots will influence how they learn with AI

What people think of their teachers is tremendously important for learning, and should inform how we analyze the potential ...

New ‘miniature T rex’ rewrites the history of the world’s largest predator

Nanotyrannus, the “miniature T rex”, has been the centre of one of the fiercest debates in palaeontology. Scientists have ...

Why healthcare’s ‘do no harm’ ethic must include the planet

Hospitals generate thousands of tonnes of waste every year – much of it single-use plastics. But a circular future for ...