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Iranian state media has reported there's been a series of explosions near the central city of Isfahan. Iran has suspended flights over several cities including the capital, Tehran. A US official has told CNN Israel was behind the attacks. Israeli officials have yet to comment.
In the wake of the Bondi Junction stabbing attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that government "could always do more" to address Australia's mental health crisis.Last month more than 500 members of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists signed an open letter to the federal health minister urging the government to address workforce shortages.
Depending on where you sit the government’s National Defence Strategy - announced yesterday - is an indecipherable piece of puffery or transformational reforms designed to protect us in a much less certain world.
Celebrity endorsement scams have been around for years but as the latest generative AI blurs the line between fact and fiction, scammers are being given a shiny new toolbox of tricks to try and lure us in.
What is assisted evolution or genetic rescue and could it save the projected one-third of plants and animals that face extinction by 2070.
In New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, house prices are in decline and while rents are on the rise, they’re increasing at a much slower rate than the rest of the country.
The amount of sugar in some of the most common soft drinks has increased in recent years by as much as 60 per cent.This is despite a pledge in 2018 by the Australian Beverages Council to reduce sugar in drinks by 20 per cent by 2025.
Australian aid organisations are calling on more federal investment in foreign aid following the announcement of a $50 billion increase to defence spending.
The Federal Government’s biggest review of the sector in decades is signalling a radical reshaping of the tertiary education sector, with potential changes to University course fees and more support provided to students to pay down their burgeoning HECS debts.
The Solomon Islands is facing a crossroads today as polling closes in what has been described as the country’s most important election since independence.
The martini a drink that never seems to go out of style. It’s tuxedos, sophistication, it’s the Great Gatsby … and of course James Bond. How has this drink managed to retain its iconic status after all this time?
A Queensland outback cattle station which includes key habitat for the elusive and endangered Night Parrot has been acquired for conservation after an anonymous donation of $21 million by a philanthropist.
In the wake of the brutal attacks in Sydney, federal Minister Tanya Plibersek today suggested we all think seriously about logging off social media - but will it help?
The Defence Minister says "Australia no longer has the luxury of a 10-year window of strategic warning time for conflict".
Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer for men in many countries including Australia and a recent article in the Lancet warns that its incidence is set to double globally in the next two decades.
Scientists from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have detected a sleeping giant hiding in the constellation Aquila, less than 2,000 light-years from Earth.
For many watching Israel over the weekend, Iran’s attack seemed unprecedented. But for Volodymyr Zelenskyy the type of weapons used and the barrage style of attack were all too familiar.
Artificial Intelligence experts say the federal government is approaching the technology with a fear mentality and needs to do more to help integrate it into the economy.
Where arguing was once an art form, today it seems more like a free-for-all pub brawl. So is it time we go back to basics? Can ancient rhetoricians teach us how to get along again? Professor Robin Reams on 'The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself '
Having lost his wife to cancer, now retired 75-year-old farmer David Morris had given up on love. Then Shirley came into his life.
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How can she resist hanging up on this slimeball who ducks every question?
Jeez, her questions are so conservative and stupid.