‘No support, no housing, no job’ – the vicious cycle pushing more women into prison

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For too many women, prison is as good as it gets. New research based on interviews with 80 female prisoners in Western Australia reveals most of these women were criminalised by circumstances outside their control before...

The ‘3 day guarantee’ for childcare starts next year. The challenge could be finding quality care

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One of the Albanese governments headline election policies was a three-day guarantee for childcare. From January 5 2026, all eligible Australian families will be able to access at least three days of subsidised early...

Australia could tax Google, Facebook and other tech giants with a digital services tax – but don’t hold your breath

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Tech giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix make billions of dollars from Australian users every year. But most of those profits are not taxed here. To address this tax gap, some countries have introduced a new kind of...

‘Chaotic, sometimes dangerous places’ – why successful rehab for prisoners on remand will be hard to achieve

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Last weeks budget allocated NZ$472 million in new funding to deal with a growing prison population caused by greater use of prison remand and proposals to increase prison sentence lengths. The new funding comes on top of...

‘Not a saint’: Florence Nightingale, heroic founder of modern nursing, is humanised in a new novel

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Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. She was immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellows 1857 poem, Santa Filomena: A noble type of good / Heroic Womanhood. For over a century, she has...

Being monitored at work? A new report calls for tougher workplace surveillance controls

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Frame stock footage/Shutterstock Australian employers are monitoring employees, frequently without workers knowledge or consent, according to a new report. And when workers do know about surveillance, there is little they...

This rare alpine frog is fighting against a lethal fungus – by breeding faster and faster

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Laura Brannelly, CC BY-NC-ND For a small frog, the alpine tree frog (Litoria verreauxii alpina) packs a lot of surprises. For one, this tree frog lives in snowy gullies and high mountain crags across the Australian Alps,...