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Sciences & Technology

Q&A: There are some important lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage

As the tech world recovers from the global CrowdStrike outage, there are some key take aways for all of us

Informed Opinion

Daytime crowd at a music festival with a large stage in the background

Is today the day the music dies?

Australia’s live music scene is already suffering, but AI-generated music could put the industry under even more pressure

This policy could make women’s super more vulnerable to financial abuse

Australia’s opposition says early access to superannuation is an election policy for the party’s campaign. But we’ve already seen it makes women vulnerable to economic abuse

Are universities part of the populism problem?

Universities are drivers of educated debate, so with democracy in crisis amid rising populism and inequality, what have they been doing?

Politics & Society

Is Melbourne really a 24-hour city if public transport stops?

Sometimes Melbourne’s public transport goes dark. Our Map of the Month shows it makes life hard – even dangerous – for those in our night-time economy

#ICYMI - In Case You Missed It

An overweight pug from above

If your dog is overweight, you probably are too

Our pets are getting fatter, and the blame lies with us as we humanise and treat our pets as equals

Saving the secrets of the jars of Laos

The mysterious Plain of Jars in Laos, which is giving archaeologists clues to an ancient civilisation, has just joined the list of UNESCO World Heritage protected sites

5 things you didn’t realise you need to know about perimenopause

One woman having a perimenopausal hot flush on live TV has started a national conversation about normalising the symptoms

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