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Plastic waste and the need for small digital labs for Linguistics

This is the appropriate time to prepare or train our next generation for correcting our mistakes and solving environment-related issues.  

Australians reject discrimination that is based on religious belief: new research

Australians reject protections for religious organisations to exclude people from employment and schooling on these bases.

How do we teach young people about climate change?

Comics are an effective way to put a human face on issues because they allow us to show first-person narratives and experiences.

The Swayamvara Connect of Ancient Kashmir and Assam

The swayamvara of Meghavahana and Amritaprabha finds description in several historical records including the Rajatarangini by Kalhana.

Urgent need to build capacity for locally led development research

How can development partners support and strengthen locally led research for development? There are at least six ways.

Journalism and media freedom under pressure with China’s creeping influence in the Pacific

The restrictions on Pacific media during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent Pacific trip are only the most recent example of a media sector under siege.

Australian government’s renewable target is much more ambitious than it seems

If renewable electricity production target of 82% is achieved, it really will be a step change.

Western Australia heads to “Destination India” with most ambitious trade and investment mission

WA accounted for 17 per cent of total goods trade between Australia and India.

Save environment: An appeal to the people of Delhi

Several Indian scientists, environmentalists, nature lovers, nature wild life photographers and the social workers have given many suggestions to combat the menace of environmental pollution.

How Priya Satia’s ‘Time’s Monster’ landed like a bomb in my historian’s brain

In this 2020 book, Priya Satia maps how the “historical discipline helped make empire – by making it ethically thinkable”.

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“Makes no difference”: President Trump doubles down as US–Iran talks end day one with zero deal in Pakistan

US President Donald Trump has declared victory over Iran even as marathon peace talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, drag on without a deal, highlighting the deep divide between political rhetoric and diplomatic reality.

Perth man jailed over assault on police officers, including spitting at airport arrest

Officers stopped and restrained him after he became obstructive. While in custody at the airport, he spat directly into the face and mouth of an AFP officer.

‘First contact’ that may have led to complex life on Earth finally witnessed by scientists

In fact, the first bubbles of oxygen that filled the atmosphere on early Earth likely came from ancient stromatolites. You could say we owe our very existence to these piles of rocks.
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