How to keep COVID-19 at bay during the summer holidays — and help make travel bubbles a reality in 2021
Recent announcements on travel bubbles and quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and Australia from early next year will be welcome…
Morocco and Israel agree to normalise a sordid relationship
Morocco has become the fourth Arab nation to normalise relations with the state of Israel recently. Previously clandestine, Morocco’s cooperation…
Refugees forcibly relocated from Mantra Hotel in Melbourne
Green Left is a vital social-change project and aims to make all content available online, without paywalls. With no corporate…
Curious Kids: why are our tears salty?
Why are tears salty? — Aarna, aged 6 Hi Aarna, thanks for your great question! I’m going to start off…
In the Richest Borough of One of the World’s Richest Cities, at Least 1 in 30 People Are Homeless
A quarter of a million people are homeless and living in temporary accommodation in England, new stats from Shelter reveal.…
5 evidence-based ways teachers can help struggling students
New South Wales recently introduced a draft Student Behaviour Strategy. This was released on the heels of a report suggesting…
Moreland council condemns secret immigration detention centre
The City of Moreland Council voted to condemn the establishment of a secret immigration detention centre in Fawkner at its…
Two new COVID-19 cases identified in Sydney’s northern beaches – Sydney Morning Herald
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is urging residents of Sydney’s northern beaches with even the mildest of symptoms to get tested…
Google got hit with another huge antitrust case, this time over its ad monopoly
A group of 10 state attorneys general filed suit against Google on Wednesday, alleging anti-competitive practices related to its ad…
Twitter joins Facebook and YouTube in banning Covid-19 vaccine misinformation
On Wednesday, Twitter announced that it will begin to take down Covid-19 vaccine misinformation starting next week. The company plans…
Twitter Users Mock Trump For Griping About ‘Endless Negative’ Ads On Fox News
Donald Trump’s relationship with Fox News ― once the cable network so dear to his heart ― continued to deteriorate on…
How the size and shape of dried leaves can turn small flames into colossal bushfires
The 2020-21 fire season is well underway, and we’ve watched in horror as places like K’gari (Fraser Island) burn uncontrollably,…
Stressed out, dropping out: COVID has taken its toll on uni students
It’s a tough time to be a university student. Amid a global pandemic, overstretched mental health services and sweeping university…
Eastern Australia has hundreds of enigmatic volcanoes. New research shows how they formed
The landscape of eastern Australia is dotted with hundreds of extinct volcanoes. They gave rise to an environment to which…