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Friday essay: the Nuremberg Trials at 80 – could such a reckoning ever happen again?

Nuremberg, often called β€˜history’s greatest trial’, officially opened on October 18 1945. It held senior Nazi leaders to account for war crimes during the Holocaust.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

The true political fights of One Battle After Another unfortunately happen on the edges of the frame

Critical claims that One Battle After Another is the artistic antidote to fascism mistake political theatre for genuine engagement.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?

Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression?

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

9 ways to help your brain and boost your memory during exam season

Your memory during exams isn’t just related to how much you study. It is also about how your brain functions under pressure.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

AI β€˜workslop’ is creating unnecessary extra work. Here’s how we can stop it

When applied to the right tasks, with appropriate human oversight, AI can enhance performance. Here are three simple steps to get the most out of the technology.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Some major Australian towns still have poor phone reception. It’s threatening public safety

Regional towns such as Dubbo as well as some suburbs on the outskirts of Melbourne have worse reception than more remote areas.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

With 83% of its buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than money to rebuild

In Gaza, food, medicine and bottled water are the immediate priorities for residents. But how does the city itself get rebuilt?

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Newsroom edition: Albanese prepares to meet Trump, SXSW Live - podcast

Live from the South by Southwest festival in Sydney, Bridie Jabour talks to the editor, Lenore Taylor, the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, and senior audio producer Miles Herbert about how Anthony Albanese will navigate meeting Donald Trump as Australians watch America’s authoritarian turnRead more: Continue reading...

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

β€˜Summer is coming sooner and it’s lasting longer’: what has the weather got in store for Australia?

Abnormal heat is expected, especially in Tasmania, but a β€˜tug of war’ between climate drivers means the rainfall and fire forecast is uncertainFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCurious about what the weather has in store for summer?October kicks off Australia’s peak time for severe weather – with increased risk of everything from heatwaves...

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic standards for women | LΓ©a Antigny

Watching my daughter’s strong sense of self has forced me to reflect on my own adolescence through the wildly misogynistic early 2000sβ€œNow there’s a girl who’s comfortable in her own skin,” my father-in-law said about my daughter, his granddaughter. She was about one year old and we were watching her bounce happily in her high chair, egg smeared across both cheeks as she shoved pieces of fritter into her mouth.I...

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after β€˜positive’ talks with Coalition

Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through...

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Grattan on Friday: Master communicator vs master tactician, the race between Chalmers and Burke

In the clandestine race for Labor’s next leader, the question is will youth or experience shine through?

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Chris Minns was warned anti-protest laws shouldn’t be passed in an atmosphere of panic. The supreme court has struck them down

At almost every opportunity, the NSW premier chooses a conservative path: get the cops on side and let nobody fault Labor’s toughness on crime. It’s not workingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThere is a lesson for Chris Minns in the NSW supreme court’s declaration that police powers to deal with protesters near places of worship are...

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Marles insists there is β€˜a good story to tell’ in Australia-US defence relationship – as it happened

This blog is now closedNews Corp told by Liberal MP that allegations about Sam Groth and wife were β€˜political hit job’, couple’s lawyers sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore information on the incident at a Townsville facility involving ADF personnel: the Queensland ambulance service said three people were injured after a single-vehicle crash.Paramedics assessed one patient with...

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

An unexpected unemployment rate rise puts the RBA odds-on to cut the cash rate – but it’s a headache for Jim Chalmers

A resilient labour market is the jewel in Labor’s crown when it comes to its economic record. Is this month’s data a blip, or the start of something bigger?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHear that? That’s the sound of the jobs market creaking, if not cracking.Australia’s unemployment rate unexpectedly jumped to a four-year high of 4.5% in September, up from 4.3% the month before. Continue...

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Some US protein powders contain high levels of lead. Can I tell if mine is safe?

Here’s what the investigators found and what it means for people who use protein powder.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off?

Fusion companies claim they can deliver power in a decade or less – but the reality may be more difficult.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet

It’s clear – climate change is supercharging the world’s wildfires in unpredictable and devastating ways.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

What a surprise spike in the unemployment rate means for interest rates and the economy

The unexpected jump strengthens the case for the Reserve Bank to cut the official cash rate in November.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Closure of GP clinics will leave thousands of vulnerable Victorians without β€˜lifesaving healthcare’

GP services will end at the Collingwood, Fitzroy, and Kensington sites in DecemberFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThousands of Victorians with complex health needs who are also facing homelessness, trauma and family violence will be forced to find a new GP after the sudden announcement that services at three cohealth clinics will...

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Sussan Ley’s Melbourne crime crusade achieves little more than a political free kick for Victorian Labor

There’s no question Victoria has a crime problem, but the federal Coalition parachuting in with talking points and a scare campaign is not the answerGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOn Wednesday morning, Sussan Ley flew into Melbourne on a mission: to sound the alarm on the city’s β€œout of control” crime crisis, flanked by two fellow non-Victorian members of her shadow cabinet – Queensland’s...

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

How voluntary assisted dying in the NT would be different to down south

The Northern Territory is unique for so many reasons. That’s why voluntary assisted dying in the NT can’t be imported from elsewhere.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

As Gaza starts to rebuild, what lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?

Some 80 years ago, Nagasaki residents faced the seemingly impossible task of rebuilding a devastated city. A similar challenge faces those in Gaza today.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Optimising is just perfectionism in disguise. Here’s why that’s a problem

Constantly striving to improve ourselves can take a toll on our mental health.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist. Here’s how three religions actually describe him

By the ninth century, influenced by the Christian idea, Islam and Judaism each had their own Antichrist figures who would come at the end of history.

Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Rental affordability report shows essential workers being priced out of housing

Anglicare has issued a dire warning to policymakers after its latest report found nurses, teachers and paramedics can only afford a tiny fraction of rental properties across the country.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Breaking: Court rules in favour of Palestine Action Group over NSW protest laws

The Palestine Action Group has won a NSW Supreme Court challenge against a law that limited protests near places of worship.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

'Turbocharged' Nullarbor sheep station hits the market

One of Australia's largest sheep stations is listed for sale as wool and lamb prices soar.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Auditor-general says Victoria risks losing flood recovery money

A Victorian Auditor-General's report says state government agencies need to be quicker at providing relief and recovery when responding to natural disasters.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Victorian schools to limit screen time, provide free laptops

Victorian primary school students will spend no more than 90 minutes a day on screens under reforms announced by the Victorian government.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Olympic swimming champion Titmus explains shock retirement

Ariarne Titmus draws the curtain on a decorated career, in which she won eight medals across two Olympic Games.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Safety warning over heritage machinery after doctor crushed

What started as a routine day of chores for a country GP and his son became a life-or-death situation after he was crushed by a vintage tractor.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

How two words unravelled cases against two suspected Chinese spies

The collapse of the case against the men β€” a former think-tank director and a researcher for a senior MP β€” prompts some to argue the British government deliberately failed to provide enough evidence against the pair in order to avoid upsetting China.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon over new reporting rules

Journalists working at the Pentagon had been asked to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information not authorised for release by the US Department of War.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

R360 hits back at ARLC's threat of 10-year bans for rebel players

The boss of R360 says threats of 10-year bans for NRL players who defect to the rebel competition are predictable, as the code war escalates.

Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia