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Human remixes pay creatives, AI just pays shareholders

Generative AI is built on the work of humans but these creatives are rarely remunerated. If we don’t protect them now, entire categories of labour risk being obliterated

Politics & Society

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Analysis

A fairer world without destroying the planet? It's possible

Imagine a future where everyone has enough, on a planet that stays liveable. A new report makes a compelling case it's within reach

Arts & Culture

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Opinion

Three thousand years old and Homer's Odyssey is still travelling

Christopher Nolan's film is the latest of countless retellings – in opera, poetry, comics and video games. And the epic's own history is as complicated as its hero's voyage

Environment

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Research

As flood risk grows, underinsurance could become Australia’s least visible climate problem

More homes than ever are being mapped into flood zones, but many households are dropping their cover. New research points to a confusing system, not complacent homeowners

Arts & Culture

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Analysis

The book that taught us to think of witches as women

Written in fury after a failed trial in 1485, the Malleus Maleficarum fuelled 150 years of witch hunts that shaped how Europe imagined, hunted and executed women

Arts & Culture

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Research

Fifty words at a time, this project is helping to preserve Australia’s Indigenous languages

The 50 Words Project is documenting Australia’s Indigenous languages by recording 50 everyday words in as many as possible. It now has 100 languages online, free for anyone to explore and learn

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

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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Opinion

Why Australian campaign finance reform laws keep ending up in the High Court

New laws attempting to keep big money out of Australian politics have also entrenched the major parties, leaving them vulnerable to constitutional challenge in the High Court

Health & Medicine

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Research

Culturally relevant messaging matters for First Nations peoples

A flowing river for arteries, a bare boab tree for depression. A project in the Kimberley shows how listening before we speak can improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people