As the Million Paws Walk takes its last lap, other charity fundraising events face serious challenges

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The RSPCA has announced this Sundays Million Paws Walk will be their last. The event has been celebrated across Australia since 1994, with more than 765,000 people and their 410,000 dogs having laced up and leashed up to...

Floods, fires and even terrorist attacks: how ready are our hospitals to cope when disaster strikes?

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Floodwaters have engulfed large parts of New South Wales, with at least one person dead and almost 50,000 evacuated after days of heavy rainfall in a one-in-500-year flood event. The scale of the disaster is still...

The deluge in NSW sounds a warning to rural and regional communities elsewhere

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Heavy rain continues to fall across the Hunter and Mid North Coast of New South Wales. Rivers are bursting their banks and spreading over floodplains, leaving many areas on flood watch. And now, this emergency is heading...

Is every nationalist a potential fascist? A historian weighs in

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Nationalism is typically seen as the preserve of right-wing politics, and it has long been a cornerstone of authoritarian and fascist governments around the world. In democratic countries the term nationalism is linked to...

Eight years after arena attack, the commercialisation of Manchester’s bee symbol has unsettled some Mancunians

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If you visit Manchester, one of the first things youll notice is the great number of bee images throughout the city. Born in the Industrial Revolution, the worker bee symbol captured the citys tireless spirit and its...

Grattan on Friday: if Ley and Littleproud find a way to cohabit, it will be a tense household

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Remember that cliche about the Nationals tail wagging the Liberal dog? That tail wagged very vigorously this week, and smashed a lot of crockery, as it sought to bring Liberal leader Sussan Ley to heel. In a gesture of...

It’s unlikely a magic bullet will ever cure Alzheimer’s – maybe a magic shotgun can

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For much of the 21st century, one theory has dominated research efforts to cure Alzheimers disease: the amyloid hypothesis. Beta-amyloid is a protein that builds up in clumps, or plaques, in the brains of people with...