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Higher prices have hit most people but homeowners have felt it harder than renters

First homebuyers who bought within the past three years faced the biggest living cost increase, of 20.5%.

Do languages become less complex with more new adult speakers?

Grammar is very complicated, especially if you are learning a new language.

Could National Cabinet’s new housing plan fix our rental crisis?

The National Planning Reform Blueprint adds 200,000 homes to the previous target of 1 million extra homes over five years.

Is rise of AI contributing to decline of Human Intelligence?

Experts raise question has AI learned well how to modify the user’s mind and inclinations

Beware! Not all mental health apps are helpful

Although some mental health apps connect users with a registered therapist, most provide a fully automated service that bypasses the human element.

‘Jai Sia Ram’: Why projecting Hindu beliefs on public platform puts target on your back?

How do we see the colonialists’ coercing their religion in different parts of the world under the garb of civilising mission politics?

Too many school students are falling behind: how do we help those most at risk?

NAPLAN results show 16.2% of Year 3 students are at or below the national minimum standards in numeracy and 12.9% are at or below the minimum standards in reading.

We need more than police checks: how parents and educators can keep childcare services safe from abuse

Each state and territory requires people who work with children to have a working with children clearance.

Freedom for Life or Life for Freedom: Celebrating India’s 77th Independence Day

The freedom is to choose between life and death, and the freedom also lies, in demanding through democratic institutions, denied spaces of empowerment.

Seeing both poles of Australia and the Pacific Islands

Despite leadership-level scuffles, both reports demonstrate that respondents appreciate Australia–Pacific ties.

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Fiji urged to block online pornography as authorities link explicit content to child sexual abuse

The proposal was raised during a recent community consultation in Nasoso, Nadi, where residents and police argued that stronger internet restrictions could help protect vulnerable children from sexual abuse within their own homes.

Premier Ben Carroll promises ‘exhaustive’ royal commission into corruption and violence across Victoria

He promised terms of reference broad enough to examine conduct across the entire construction system rather than focusing only on the Construction

Darwin woman charged after alleged misuse of government role to access millions in NDIS funds

Investigators allege the business received more than $28 million in National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) funding since 2019, with around $18 million of those claims identified as potentially suspicious.
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