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Cricket Australia’s Big Bash cash grab is rejected – but there are better options on the table

The news comes after Queensland Cricket told CA it would join Cricket NSW in rejecting the private ownership idea first presented by CA in mid-2025.
IMMIGRATION

Pacific needs disaster displacement included in treaty

In 2024 alone, an estimated 65.8 million internal displacements were recorded, with almost 70% triggered by disasters rather than conflict.
OPINION

How parents manage devices and little kids

Australia’s national 24-hour movement guidelines recommend no screen time for children under two and a maximum of two hours for children over five.
OPINION

Is AI deciding what we see online?

Earlier this year, a News Futures: Media Policy Roundtable brought together 45 leaders from industry, government, not-for-profit organisations, digital platforms and academia.
OPINION

Pretend play is a magical part of childhood. New research suggests it can also help mental health

Children have huge imaginations and use these to turn rocks into spaceships, tables into forts or pens into fairies
OPINION

NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean?

Under the new rules, the threshold to access NDIS support will be higher.
OPINION

Ceasefire on paper, a war in motion: Why the Iran crisis is far from over

Omer Ghazi Hours after markets and diplomats began pricing in a fragile pause, President Donald Trump announced an extension to the Iran ceasefire while simultaneously...
OPINION

Wondering if you’re a ‘light’ or ‘deep’ sleeper?

Sleep is not a single, static state. Rather, it’s a cycle that unfolds and repeats across the night, in two main stages.
OPINION

More than 60% of home battery installations inspected in Australia are ‘substandard’

Issues include missing or incorrect warning labels, unlabelled backup circuits, and missing or incorrectly positioned energy storage (ES) labels.
OPINION

When oil refineries burn, here’s what happens to your lungs and heart

Smoke from an oil refinery fire is made up of many different pollutants.
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