Labor is promising a national food security strategy – but there’s no mention of Australians who are going hungry

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Australias food security is on the political agenda, with Labor flagging a new national strategy if it is re-elected for a second term. Feeding Australia would build-in ways to make the agricultural sector more resilient....

NZ’s glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice – as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change

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Brewster Glacier is thinning and retreating because of extremely low retention of winter snow and high summer melt rates. Lauren Vargo/Victoria University of Wellington, CC BY New Zealand ranks third globally in the...

‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review

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Eon eren/Shutterstock Earlier this year I received comments on an academic manuscript of mine as part of the usual peer review process, and noticed something strange. My research focuses on ensuring trustworthy evidence is...

Children of Paradise is the greatest film to come out of France, even 80 years on

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IMDB It is March 9 1945 in a swanky cinema in Paris. The audience is settling in for the premiere of Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis) the latest work by Marcel Carné, best known for his moody 1930s...

Labor gains in some opinion polls, but the race remains neck-and-neck

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A national Newspoll, conducted March 37 from a sample of 1,255, gave the Coalition a 5149 lead, unchanged since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 39% Coalition (up one), 32% Labor (up one), 12%...

How ocean giants are born: tracking the long-distance impact and danger of extreme swells

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Late last year, a massive ocean swell caused by a low pressure system in the North Pacific generated waves up to 20 metres high, and damaged coastlines and property thousands of kilometres from its source. Two years...

‘A serious wake-up call’: Cyclone Alfred exposes weaknesses in Australia’s vital infrastructure

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Thousands of residents are mopping up in the wake of ex-Cyclone Alfred, which has damaged homes and cars, flooded roads and gouged out beaches. I write from Brisbane, where rain has fallen for several days. Most of it is...