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I was at a birthday dinner when I received a message from my brother that immediately felt wrong. It was disjointed and unclear, as if something serious had happened but hadn’t yet settled into words.

For more than 70 years, community water fluoridation has been defended as settled science, despite weak evidence of benefit, unresolved health risks, ethical violations and the quiet influence of ...

So you're thinking about visiting Turkey for the first time? Smart choice. This country sits right where Europe meets Asia, and honestly, that location alone tells you everything about what makes ...

What has changed after the Bondi terrorist attack on Sunday 14 December? Dr Lee Duffield watched the events unfold and penned this report on how Australians received the bad news over the first hours.

Sri Lanka is facing one of its most severe flood events in recent memory, with entire districts submerged, homes destroyed, and tens of thousands displaced. What began as a week of heavy monsoonal ...

Halting migration might sound like a quick fix to Australia’s housing and economic woes, but the real outcome would be stalled growth, lost jobs and rising costs across the nation, writes Dr Abul ...

Madeleine Cleary’s ‘The Butterfly Women’ brings colonial Melbourne to life in a gripping tale of murder, resilience and the women who refused to be forgotten, writes Anne Layton-Bennett. INITIALLY, ...

A traveller’s close call in flood-ravaged Hoi An reveals how easily visitors can escape — and how many locals cannot. Craig Hill writes. BY THE TIME our private car nosed into Hoi An, much of the town ...

Prices, jobs, growth and debt all confirm the Coalition parties have run out of puff, as Alan Austin reports. WHEN THE Morrison Coalition Government was formulating its Federal Budget in October 2020, ...

Meanwhile, Coalition climate credibility is under the wrecking ball.

Documents reveal how Australia’s covert role in Chile’s 1973 coup fed the tensions that ultimately consumed the Whitlam Government, writes Jemma Nott. AS PRESIDENT TRUMP begins to prepare for a ...