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The brave new work-from-home world is encouraging ever-increasing numbers of city dwellers to head somewhere quieter and more affordable.

The weekend’s news of COVID-19 outbreaks and various lockdowns around Australia reminds us there’s no room for complacency. We need to accelerate Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out and ensure people are fully vaccinated as soon as possible.

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National business employer group warns of state and territory overreactions and cautions ‘This isn’t the gunfight at the OK Corral’.

A report from the US task force dedicated to investigating UFOs — or, in the official jargon, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) — has neither confirmed nor rejected the idea such sightings could indicate alien visits to Earth.

Not so long ago, Facebook was a goldmine for Australian news media. News featured prominently in Australians’ Facebook feeds, and newsrooms across the country saw a growing online audience engage with their stories.

On July 1, the New South Wales government will lift a ban on genetically modified (GM) crops after an 18-year moratorium. It will mean GM crops can now be grown in every Australian state except Tasmania.

Airlines want you vaccinated. They want as many people as possible vaccinated. The sooner that happens, the sooner borders open and they can get back to profitability.

Part-owner of hospitality businesses faces multiple charges for allegedly failing to pay minimum wages and other award entitlements to workers.

Scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos.

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Amateur kayaker suffered cardiac arrest after being submerged in freezing water. But a remarkable ‘chain of survival’ leads to full recovery.

Just before 2am US Eastern Daylight Time on June 24, the Champlain Towers South Tower in Surfside, South Florida, partially collapsed.

Wild elephants are awe-inspiring — even if they’re trying to kill you, as I discovered in 2004.

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Vast, treeless paddocks and fields can be dangerous for wildlife, who encounter them as “roadblocks” between natural areas nearby.

This week, the NSW government announced almost A$500 million towards boosting the uptake of electric vehicles.

The huge power of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 66-million years ago is still producing localised life forms different to anywhere else.

Since 1950, average temperatures in the Greater Yellowstone Area have risen 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.3 C), and potentially more importantly, the region has lost a quarter of its annual snowfall.

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Tasmania’s visitor-spend stats for the 2021 March quarter are up by 29 percent versus the same period in 2019.

Directly following the 2020 election, Republicans seemed to be through with Donald Trump. Party leaders stopped speaking to him and voters began abandoning the GOP, apparently in reaction to Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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Researchers have linked stress granule biology and the stress response process in general to several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, and some forms of dementia.

The recent U.S.-Russia summit between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin suggests that a controversial Russian natural gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, is a done deal.

ACTU says current emergency payments are unavailable during short lockdowns, are below the poverty line and don’t give job security.

Excavations at the Israeli site of Nesher Ramla have recovered a skull that may represent a late-surviving example of a distinct Homo population, which lived in and around modern-day Israel from about 420,000 to 120,000 years ago.

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Filipino victim was kept in slave-like circumstances and forced to work in couple’s home and business for more than three years.

Deep decarbonisation requires that we reduce anthropogenic emissions in the first place. In fact, we need a year-on-year reduction in emissions from now until 2050, roughly equivalent to the 7% reductions seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Over the past few years, tensions have been rising between Russia and the United States — not in conventional military terms, but in cyberspace.

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There are conflicting accounts from the UK and Russia about an incident off Cape Fiolent on the Crimean peninsula on June 23 when Russia’s defence ministry said its aircraft had fired warning shots at the British destroyer HMS Defender to expel it from Russia’s claimed territorial sea.

Soil carbon is in the spotlight in Australia. A key plank in the Morrison government’s technology-led emissions reduction policy, it involves changing farming techniques so soils store more carbon from the atmosphere.

Neanderthals first appeared at Denisova Cave about 200,000 years ago, with a variety of DNA that was previously unknown. They vanished from the site about 40,000 years ago, around the same time Neanderthals disappeared in other parts of Eurasia.

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As infections in Sydney continue to rise, NZ has decided to increase the duration of the pause in quarantine-free travel with NSW.

Latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show more than a quarter of businesses are struggling to fill their job vacancies.

This week, the NSW government announced almost A$500 million towards boosting the uptake of electric vehicles. In its new electric vehicle strategy, the government will waive stamp duty for cars under $78,000, develop more charging infrastructure, offer rebates to 25,000 drivers, and more.

A growing global push to halt biodiversity decline, most recently agreed at the G7 on Sunday, leaves Australia out in the cold as the federal government walks away from critical reforms needed to protect threatened species.

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The UK government has begun negotiations to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), suggesting that joining this trade pact is a positive result of Brexit.

Morrisons is the UK’s fourth largest food retailer after Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda, holding a 10.5% share of the market. Founded by William Morrison in 1899, the Yorkshire-based company grew under the leadership of his son, Sir Ken Morrison, listing on the London Stock Exchange in 1967.

New penalties are up to eight times the current penalty to ensure they are no longer ‘merely a cost of doing business’, minister warns.

Public health experts estimate that approximately 70% of the world’s 7.9 billion people must be fully vaccinated to end the COVID-19 pandemic. As of June 21, 2021, 10.04% of the global population had been fully vaccinated, nearly all of them in rich countries.

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Declaration triggers Federal assistance for Greater Sydney as more infections with the dangerous Delta variant are confirmed.

The Australian government on Tuesday expressed shock at a draft decision to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”. But the recommendation has been looming for some time.

New Zealand’s pandemic response and elimination strategy have drawn worldwide attention. At this point, the country remains one of few places in the world without community transmission since the end of February 2021.