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A vital native bee highway can start in your own backyard

Bees are critical to our biodiversity, but they’re in trouble. Our new Map of the Month tells us where some of our most charismatic native bees live in the City of Melbourne and the plants that support them

Education

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Research

How learning grows in school gardens across the Indo-Pacific

School greening programs are bringing the latest research into classrooms – reshaping curriculum, teacher training and climate education in the Solomon Islands, Fiji and the Maldives

Politics & Society

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Opinion

Pauline Hanson is thriving in Australia's 'belonging vacuum'

One Nation's vision of a monocultural Australia is unworkable and exclusionary, but the harder truth is that no major party has offered a shared vision that all Australians can identify with

Education

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Research

The truth about First Nations children and schooling has been told, retold and ignored

Three major inquiries over 35 years have reached the same conclusion: Australia's education system functions as a tool of colonial harm. So why hasn't it produced justice?

Arts & Culture

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Opinion

In 2026, we still need Robin Hood to be a hero

The new movie, The Death of Robin Hood, insists its weary, violent outlaw is the real man behind the myth, buried by centuries of sanitising. But the medieval Robin was a moral compass, not a villain

Politics & Society

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Analysis

Changing who owns houses, won’t fix how fast we can build them

Australia keeps reaching for tax reform to fix the housing crisis, but the 2026 Federal Budget still didn't tackle one of our biggest problems. What it missed was speed.

Health & Medicine

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Research

It's time to remove the barriers to mental health awareness for all young people

Australian adolescents from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds need support to recognise mental health problems earlier, reduce stigma and build confidence in helping their peers

Sciences & Technology

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Research

Greyhound racing says it’s transparent, so we used AI to check - dog by dog

When an industry publishes its own welfare data, how can anyone check it? We built AI agents to go through the public records on fatalities in greyhound racing and found a rising death rate

Sciences & Technology

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Research

Exploding stars are trying to talk to us through gravitational waves

The cataclysmic explosions of dying stars can help us unlock grand mysteries of the universe. So we’re priming our detection tools to make the most of the next one we get

Environment

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Research

Tracking the Antarctic ice most at risk of breakup and melting

The most extensive analysis of satellite records shows Antarctica’s marginal ice zone – the area of sea ice most affected by waves – is larger and more dynamic than previously thought