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‘I don’t think you’d ever change it’: Inside the famous Sydney oval that’s slowly falling apart
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-don-t-think-you-d-ever-change-it-inside-the-famous-sydney-oval-that-s-slowly-falling-apart-20250515-p5lzh3.html
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One Nation's Senate victories show the 2016 electoral reforms were right - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-30/one-nation-s-victories-are-a-vindication-of-the-senate-reforms/105358914
One Nation's success affirms the 2016 Senate reforms in ensuring that Senate elections were decided by voters, not the opaque deals of preference traders.
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Exclusive: How Abbott and Credlin control the Liberals | The Saturday Paper
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/05/24/exclusive-how-abbott-and-credlin-control-the-liberals
Liberal MPs reveal how the former prime minister and his close confidante have been at the centre of a string of disastrous decisions that led to the party’s stunning election loss and the collapse of the Coalition.
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Housing affordability crisis - Saving for a deposit forever - The Australia Institute
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/housing-affordability-crisis-saving-for-a-deposit-forever/
The dream of saving for a deposit on a house is now so far beyond most poeple that even if you have a high paying job, you still can never save enough.
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The rise and fall of Adam Bandt: the Greens leader who embraced a different approach to politics | Paddy Manning | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/adam-bandt-rise-and-fall-of-greens-leader-who-embraced-different-approach-to-politics
The outgoing member for Melbourne understood if the Greens genuinely want to be a party of government they have to win lower house seats
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Hope on the Horizon – Lessons for Europe stemming from the Australian and Canadian elections - Diritti Comparati
https://www.diritticomparati.it/hope-on-the-horizon-lessons-for-europe-stemming-from-the-australian-and-canadian-elections/
di Jock Gardiner1. Within a week of each other, Australia and Canada held federal elections that produced remarkably similar results: the incumbent parties of the centre-left winning power; their Trump-curious conservative opponents not only losing the elections, but also seeing their leaders lose their parliamentary seats. In what has been a pretty gloomy period for this Blog’s European audience – the electoral situation in Romania, recent Reform wins in UK local elections...
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Broken Watch
https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/broken-watch/
"Watchmen," and what happens when a work designed to upturn cliches becomes one.
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Population projections are shaping conversations about having kids and climate change. But how do they really work? | Vox
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/396708/world-us-population-projections-estimates-2050-2100
Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?
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Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.M8Vw.raMdU_L48AEh&smid=bs-share
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ANU honours Australia's first female neuroscientist Rose Mason
https://reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/finally-telling-her-story-trailblazer-in-science-recognised-with-honorary-degree
Australia's first female neuroscientist, Dr Rose Mason, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by ANU.
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Peter Dutton is being tested for the first time, and he doesn’t seem to be passing
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/federal-election-2025/2025/04/05/peter-dutton-election-test
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The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/06/05/the-stunning-decline-of-the-preference-for-having-boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them | Leaders
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I Asked My Haters to Critique My "Worst" Outfit
https://www.cartoonshateher.com/p/i-asked-my-haters-to-critique-my
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Australia’s student strikers for climate believed they could change their future. Where are they now?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/australias-student-strikers-for-climate-believed-they-could-change-their-future-where-are-they-nowue
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‘I came out as autistic. Everyone said: That explains a lot’ | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism
An autism diagnosis helped Laurie Penny make sense of their experiences, but its real value was in helping them understand the rest of society
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How Modern Camera Shutters Work | Lens Rentals
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2024/03/how-modern-camera-shutters-work/
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Ian Gent's Blog: The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is NOT an Attack on Men
https://blog.ian.gent/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html
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The 1998 waterfront dispute pitted workers against each other. Recruits from the wharves share their stories - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/waterfront-dispute-pitted-workers-against-each-other-recruits/105007704
The 1998 waterfront dispute was one of the most significant industrial disputes in Australia, but what happened to those who were recruited to keep the wharves running?
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Why I Find It Hard to Write About Being a Widow
https://www.dataandpolitics.net/why-i-find-it-hard-to-write-about-being-a-widow/
Why is it so hard to write about being a widow? My story has no redemptive arc. No community rallied, no family came together, no strength was discovered. Just sudden loss and ongoing adaptation without resolution. These are the widowhood stories we don't want to hear but need to tell.
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Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-tech-bros-overestimate-ai-s-creative-abilities
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Taylor Swift buys back the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums | Taylor Swift | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/30/taylor-swift-buys-back-master-recordings-taylors-versions
After her former label sold her catalogue in 2019, Swift embarked on her lucrative album rerecording project – but now owns the originals for the first time
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The Most Unsettling Inscription I've Ever Found on the Inside Cover of a Used Book, Bar None
https://thechatner.com/p/the-most-unsettling-inscription-ive
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Selective school fail: Why NSW has lost control of the beast it created
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/selective-school-fail-why-nsw-has-lost-control-of-the-beast-it-created-20250523-p5m1qm.html
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The good times in tech are over
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-times-are-over/
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