Category: Australia news

Hiding in plane sight: the invisible turbulence that can strike out of a clear blue sky

As the planet warms, airlines are grappling with what this means for air travel – and for the passengers who simply refuse to keep their seatbelts fastenedIt was a swelteringly hot afternoon in south-west Myanmar on 21 May 2024....

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I climbed into the car with three friends. I woke in hospital to find I’d lost them all – and my legs

Rob Pike was 17 when he and three of his closest friends were in a car that smashed into a tree and split in half. He explains how he coped with the devastationAfter the car stopped rolling and came to rest on its side, Rob Pike...

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‘Our new normal’: how marine heatwaves affect life in British seas

As warming seas push native species to cooler waters farther north, once-rare visitors have become more common‘It sounds silly but I thought it was a person in the water waving,” says Kurt Lander, skipper of the Yellowfin...

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Inside the horrifying online network where children extort others to commit violence and self-harm

The 764 network is just one part of a growing online ecosystem that pushes young members into brutal and degrading acts. It has perpetrators and victims in dozens of countriesIn late 2024, in a quiet suburb of Stockholm, a...

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Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown

As a host of countries move to rein in social media use by children, could this be technology’s big tobacco moment? Continue...

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‘Oh my God, did my dad and I fight’: Olivia Colman on the regrets triggered by new film Jimpa

John Lithgow plays the gay and often nude septuagenarian father of Colman’s character in this bombshell-laden story of intergenerational queerness. She explains why her own dad would have ‘sat and cried all the way through it’...

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The moment I knew: The banana bread was terrible but seeing him baking made me fall for him

Gillian Kennedy met Wade Freeman while working in a remote desert community. She was impressed by his playlists, and his generous spiritFind more stories from the moment I knew seriesIn 2007 I’d been single for a few years and...

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Meghan has been cast as the inverse to Diana, a photonegative of adoration. Why do we need scapegoats? | Brigid Delaney

The hatred the duchess inspires reveals hidden aspects of British character and tells us something about public anxietiesWhatever unhinged parasocial relationship the adoring public had with Diana, Princess of Wales, their...

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