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Health & Medicine

Why 2025 is a big year in women's health

As International Women's Day highlights both progress and setbacks, 2025 is emerging as a watershed year for women's health across the globe

#ICYMI - In Case You Missed It

Drawing of Ned Kelly and gang shooting at a man

Bushrangers in their own words

Most bushrangers are best known from semi-fictional accounts written decades after their deaths, but a new book uncovers a few that told their own stories

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The archaeology of olive oil in the ancient world

Olive oil is liquid gold. It’s been precious to humans for almost eight thousand years – used in everything from birth to death

Laos jars are slowly revealing their secrets

New dating techniques find that Laos’ stone jars may be at least 3,000 years old, but the sites remained significant for rituals until just 700 years ago

Sciences & Technology

3 reasons why the release of GM mosquitoes in Queensland is risky

We do need to control disease-carrying mosquitoes in Australia, but more research is needed on GM strains before their proposed release in Queensland

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