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Changes in the jet stream are steering autumn rain away from southeast Australia

You wouldn’t know it from the torrential rains that have inundated large parts of New South Wales and Queensland this year, but average late-autumn rainfall over...

Why can you still get influenza if you’ve had a flu shot?

‘Today is not my day’: how Russia’s journalists, writers and artists are turning silence into speech

“It is impossible to stop a speeding train by throwing oneself onto the tracks,” wrote Russian poet Dmitry Kuzmin back in March. He was commenting on...

First, COVID hit disadvantaged communities harder. Now, long COVID delivers them a further blow

Disadvantaged communities not only suffer disproportionately from COVID, they are even more likely to be impacted by the cascading effects of long COVID. With a new...

Insurance firms can skim your online data to price your insurance — and there’s little in the law to stop this

What if your insurer was tracking your online data to price your car insurance? Seems far-fetched, right? Yet there is predictive value in the digital traces...

How are PhD students meant to survive on two-thirds of the minimum wage?

Over the decades, supportive parents of Australian students on the cusp of graduating from their undergraduate studies have occasionally been struck by a bewildering decision by...

Swapping stamp duty for land tax would push down house prices but push up apartment prices, new modelling finds

In Tuesday’s budget, NSW will announce a switch from stamp duty to land tax. It will become the second Australian jurisdiction to do so, with the...

Which flu shot should I choose? And what are cell-based and ‘adjuvanted’ vaccines?

With Australians learning to live with COVID and resuming international travel, cases of influenza are steadily rising. Getting a flu shot reduces your chance of catching...

First Nations mothers are more likely to die during childbirth. More First Nations midwives could close this gap

While Australia is one of the safest places in the world to give birth, First Nations women are three times more likely to die in childbirth...

Who really gets fired over social media posts? We studied hundreds of cases to find out

What you say and do on social media can affect your employment; it can prevent you from getting hired, stall career progression and may even get...