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The decision by the IOC confirms the winner of what was a one-horse race. This will be the third Olympic Games hosted by Australia.

A surprising ruling from a top EU court means that the UK may be able to discriminate against EU nationals who have been granted the right to live and work in the UK after Brexit.

For the moment, the Met Office continues to use temperature alone to indicate an extreme heat warning, whereas relative humidity, wind speed and how much sun we get all influence extreme heat levels.

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In 2020, election polls pointed to Democrat Joe Biden’s winning the presidency. But collectively, the polls underestimated backing for then-President Donald Trump no matter how close to the election the survey was conducted and regardless of the methods pollsters chose.

The ability to collect and learn from large amounts of data has been a major driver of innovation over recent decades. Everything from health care – think patient analytics, wearable devices and the COVID-19 response – to transportation – Uber and Lyft – to entertainment – Netflix – is now...

Where do these little mammals go travelling in the icy alpine regions during winter? Scientists are using tiny backpacks with transmitters to find out.

The Australian National Audit Office told a parliamentary committee a list of the top 20 marginal electorates guided the distribution of a $389 million car park construction fund during the 2019 election campaign.

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As the struggle to contain the virus continues in NSW, three areas in the central west are in lockdown. Victoria extends for seven days.

Another Olympics is upon us, inexorable even in the face of COVID. With it comes the inevitable, salacious speculation around doping scandals.

Today’s multi-country condemnation of cyber-attacks by Chinese state-sponsored agencies was a sign of increasing frustration at recent behaviour. But it also masks the real problem — international law isn’t strong or coherent enough to deal with this growing threat.

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Remote jobs allow employees to work exterior to traditional office mediums. Instead of computing and analysis on the office desks, a remote employee accomplishes his tasks or projects at any location and at any time.

Recent disasters such as the Black Summer bushfires and the Juukan Gorge destruction highlighted the need to put Indigenous people at the centre of decision-making about Australia’s natural places.

Design trends change every year. It’s a normal process that keeps improving the overall internet experience, and 2021 will be one of the most exciting years so far. With new, creative methods for enhancing the user experience, web design is becoming more effective.

Indium is used in many high-tech devices such as touch screens, smart phones, solar panels and smart windows, in the form of indium tin oxide. This compound is optically transparent and electrically conductive — the two crucial features required for touch screens to work.

Aussie scientists find that a year of no pressures from heat stress or cyclones is helping the iconic landmark to rejuvenate.

In 2008, as big banks began failing across Wall Street and the housing and stock markets crashed, the nation saw how crucial financial regulation is for economic stability – and how quickly the consequences can cascade through the economy when regulators are asleep at the wheel.

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Three Aussie ministers criticise China in joint statement, saying its actions have undermined international stability and security.

England has now dispensed with the remaining restrictions that were in place to curb the spread of COVID-19. No longer will there be a blanket requirement to wear face masks in public spaces or to socially distance.

Many governments are increasingly approaching artificial intelligence with an almost religious zeal. By 2018 at least 22 countries around the world, and also the EU, had launched grand national strategies for making AI part of their business development, while many more had announced ethical frameworks for how it should be...

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The Tokyo Olympics will be novel in more ways than one. Aside from the challenges of mounting the games during a pandemic, there will also be a range of new sports competing for fans’ attention.

New South Wales recently announced it would trial different start and finish times for various year levels in primary schools.

The ‘Mystery of the Black Cat’ is a secret no more and the families of 10 servicemen who disappeared without trace in 1943 now have closure.

Not wearing a mask looks a lot like punching the stranger – you risk harming innocent people. But lots of people who would never dream of punching strangers are seemingly planning to throw away their face masks.

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Latest figures show that price increases were widespread, partly driven by shortage of materials and high labour costs in construction.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan in early 2020, one focus of international reporting has been the Chinese authorities’ handling of the story.

Satisfaction with Morrison’s handling of the pandemic – which now sees lockdowns in the nation’s two largest states – plunged nine points in the last three weeks to 52%.

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While the climate is certainly a complex system that is difficult to predict with any certainty, the unfolding catastrophe is a sad reminder of just how inadequate early warning systems can be.

Opioids are one of the most powerful pain medications available, but millions of Americans have struggled with prescription opioid misuse after getting hooked on the feelings of calm and euphoria they also induce. But new research suggests there may be a way to chemically tailor opioids to reduce their addictive...

Scientists didn’t expect to find a range of different microplastics so far away from an urban area. Study reinforces plastic finds in fish elsewhere in NZ.

Residents in Sydney, the NSW Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong today received confirmation their lockdown would be extended to at least 30 July.

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Four alleged members of NSW drug syndicate that imported massive quantities of meth into Australia arrested during four-month investigation.

Social distancing and lockdowns have disrupted university study for the past 18 months.

The decisions engineers make, if not fully thought through, can have unintended consequences – including building failures and climate change.

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We all know action on climate change is urgently needed. But that doesn’t mean a forest should be razed to build a wind farm.

India is the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and its transition to a low-carbon economy is crucial to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. But unfortunately, the nation is still clinging firmly to coal.

Pre-Covid, almost half a million Japanese visited Australia. Tourism authorities want to ensure they come back when borders open.

Legacy pollutants like PCBs are chemical contaminants that take a long time to break down in the environment and often still cause harm to humans and wildlife many decades after they are banned.

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Environmentalists hail announcement that joint venture has abandoned plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.

Britain will be finally free of most of the restrictions placed on it during the pandemic from July 19 (and Northern Ireland from July 26). Armed with the knowledge that the majority of the adult population has been double-vaccinated, officials are removing almost all legal restrictions on social contact.

Exactly what happened at the beginning of the universe, 14 billion years ago, is one of the greatest mysteries in physics – there’s no simple way to probe it.