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Government boosts its home battery program by $5 billion. But it still has big problems

Over the weekend the federal government announced major changes to its A$2.3 billion home battery subsidy program.

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Data centers in space: Will 2027 really be the year AI goes to orbit?

Assuming Google does manage to launch a prototype in 2027, will it simply be a high-stakes technical experiment – or the dawning of a new era?

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U.S. Tanker Seizure Expected to Drive Steeper Black-Market Discounts on Venezuelan Oil, Increasing Pressure on Maduro

The U.S. seizure of a supertanker loaded with Venezuelan crude is expected to force black-market buyers to demand even deeper discounts, further tightening financial pressure on authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro.

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Did Donald Trump order piracy on the high seas?

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Tracking the US build-up in the Caribbean

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As a former federal judge, I’m concerned by a year of challenges to the US justice system

The public has been hearing from a lot of federal judges over the past year, much more than normal. That’s because many of them are concerned about the Trump administration’s commitment to the rule of law.

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Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment – new research

Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical fertiliser to increase their harvest. But new research suggests that there are alternatives that are cheaper and can increase the potential of these grasslands to feed livestock.

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Asia’s scamming gangs target Timor-Leste as their next frontier – but they may have misjudged the small island nation

Oecusse, a rugged, remote district of Timor-Leste in south-east Asia, is usually a pretty sleepy place. It’s located on the western side of Timor island, part of Indonesia, and is isolated geographically from the rest of Timor-Leste, which has governed the eastern side of the island since 2002.

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Lahore’s toxic winters: how smog is reshaping daily life in urban Pakistan

In November 2025, Lahore, the second-largest city in Pakistan, registered a “hazardous” air quality index of 509, according to IQAir, a global air quality monitoring organisation. The number speaks for itself. Eyes sting, throats burn and headlights blur into halos. In winter, the city feels as though it has slipped…

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How one Florida program reduced preterm births – and how it could serve as a model for other communities

One in 10 babies in the U.S. – nearly 374,000 infants – were born preterm in 2023, meaning before 37 weeks of pregnancy. More than 15% were very preterm, meaning they were born before 32 weeks. A full-term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks.

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Why global environmental negotiations keep failing – and what we can do about it

In the past year alone, four major environmental negotiations have collapsed.

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Grattan on Friday: Albanese’s social media ban is bold reform, but it will take years to judge its real success

Among those cheering Wednesday’s start of the Albanese government’s groundbreaking ban on social media accounts for under-16s was former Liberal MP David Coleman, who lost his seat in May.

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Farmers and supermarkets worry that extreme weather will stop food getting to consumers – here’s what needs to change

Storm Amy with its gusts of nearly 100mph brought heavy rain, fallen trees, and transport disruption across parts of the UK in October. Shortly after, a cold spell brought frost risks in several areas. The shift from flooding to frost showed how quickly farmers’ access to fields, harvesting and transport…

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The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch something gently, safely or meaningfully, and the limits appear instantly.

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What these Danish activists can teach the rest of the world about fighting climate crisis

Burning forests, flooded streets, a planet spinning toward collapse. Climate activists around the world face disaster and despair on a daily basis. Research suggests that although campaigners are deeply committed to tackling the crisis, they face a high risk of burnout.

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Why Grand Designs-style eco-homes aren’t a good blueprint for sustainable living

A family builds an off-grid home in rural Wales. TV celebrates it as a blueprint for net-zero living. But what if this vision of sustainability simply doesn’t scale up?

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How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption

From automatically generated overviews to chatbots in spreadsheets, so-called artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated into our watches, phones, home assistants and other smart devices.

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Jane Austen’s happiness was complicated – her last heroine in Persuasion knew why

Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since the author’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by interrogating one of her novels with leading researchers. Along the way, we visit locations important to Austen to uncover a…

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From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames

The Thames estuary in southeast England — the tidal stretch of the river — once supported extensive saltmarshes, seagrass meadows and oyster beds. These shallow areas, which flood and drain with the tides, provided vital feeding and nursery grounds for fish. But centuries of urban development have replaced them with…

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Florida’s new reporting system is shining a light on human trafficking in the Sunshine State

Most Americans imagine human trafficking as a violent kidnapping or a “stranger danger” crime – someone abducted from a parking lot or trapped in a shipping container brought in from another country.

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In Kyiv, I saw how art can help hold a city together in the shadow of war

It’s 2:44 am. An air siren cuts through the clear night sky over Kyiv and into my sleep. Heart pounding, I rise out of bed in my seventh-floor room of the Hotel Rus. Feeling like I’m on autopilot, I walk down the stairs to the bomb shelter. Chairs are lined…

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Australia’s $2.3 billion green energy program is funding oversized batteries and blowing out in cost

A federal government green energy program is subsidising unnecessarily large home batteries and blowing out in cost.

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Sweden’s mining industry is threatening the Indigenous Sami people’s way of life

“There is so much intrusion from all sides and corners,” a Sami reindeer herder tells me, reacting to a government decision to grant a mining permit in Gállok in the Sápmi region in Sweden’s far north.

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Why we created a phone-sized device to take blood diagnostics out of the lab into the real world

When your doctor thinks you might have an infection or an allergy, a simple blood test should give answers within hours. But for much of the world, that test can take days – or never happen at all. The problem is not usually the test itself, but an overlooked step…

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