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Opinion: Friday essay: blind people are often exhausted by daily prejudice – but being blind is ‘inherently creative’

Andrew Leland was in his thirties when he had to stop driving at night – and then stop driving at all. Next, he had to start using a cane in public.


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Opinion: 5 expert tips on how to look after your baby in a heatwave

Extreme heat events are becoming more frequent and intense in Australia. This can cause illness or worsen existing conditions. During hot weather, hospital admissions and deaths increase.


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Opinion: Moonlight basking and queer courting: new research reveals the secret lives of Australian freshwater turtles

Australian freshwater turtles support healthy wetlands and rivers. Yet one in three turtle species is threatened with extinction.


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Opinion: Plants are likely to absorb more CO₂ in a changing climate than we thought – here’s why

The world’s vegetation has a remarkable ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air and store it as biomass. In doing so, plants slow down climate change since the CO₂ they take up does not contribute to global warming.


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Opinion: We won’t get real equality until we price breastmilk, and treat breastfeeding as work

The Australian Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce delivered a major report last month drawing attention to what it called the “motherhood penalty” – the 55% cut in earnings for Australian women in the first five years after having a child.


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Opinion: Nuclear bombs, AI and the madness of reason – in The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut examines the troubling dawn of the digital age

A little over 100 years ago, the great German sociologist Max Weber warned that the growth of modern science would result in the “disenchantment” of the world.


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Opinion: Australia’s media classification system is no help to parents and carers. It needs a grounding in evidence

In the era of proliferating streaming platforms, choosing what to watch on family movie night can be hard.


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Opinion: Perth’s Optus Stadium has drawn more consumer anger after the outage. Another case of the ‘stadium curse’?

Sport stadium naming rights are controversial at the best of times – so why do corporates pay so much for them? And what are the risks?



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