Recent articles from publications based in Australia.
Live: One Nation reveals plan to cut migration by 750k over three years
ABC News Australiaby Courtney Gould·13 Sept 2026
live Federal politics live: One Nation reveals plan to cut migration by 750k over three years One Nation will today unveil plans to cut Australia's temporary migration program by targeting...
Decline in dugong population prompts calls for action in Gulf of Carpentaria
ABC News Australiaby Jane Bardon·13 Sept 2026
In short: The commercial fishing industry has rejected calls for further bans on gillnets after research found there has been a 50 per cent decline in dugong numbers in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Live: Wall Street rises despite hot inflation likely to trigger a Fed rate hike this week
ABC News Australiaby Stephen Letts·13 Sept 2026
live Markets live updates: Wall Street rises despite hot inflation likely to trigger a Fed rate hike this week, The odds of the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates this week jumped to an...
Home for sale with 5-metre clothes peg in front paddock
ABC News Australiaby Lani Oataway·13 Sept 2026
In the country where the Hills Hoist clothesline was invented, it is perhaps appropriate that there is a Big Peg.
Opetaia's KO fuels duel between 'two baddest dudes'
ABC News Australia·13 Sept 2026
In short: Jai Opetaia has defeated Noel Mikaelian in their cruiserweight boxing bout in Las Vegas. American star David Benavidez was in attendance for the fight and agreed to fight Opetaia in 2027.
Hyper-scale data centre could draw quarter of Queensland's power usage
ABC News Australiaby Grace Nakamura and Brandon Long·13 Sept 2026
In short: A proposed data centre at a feedlot in Queensland would have a total peak capacity of 2.16 gigawatts, equivalent to 1.5 million average Australian households.
Australia’s first female High Court judge dies at age 83
PerthNowby Chloe Maher·13 Sept 2026
Mary Gaudron: Australia’s first female High Court judge dies at age 83, tributes flow Australia’s first female High Court judge, Mary Gaudron, has died at the age of 83.
Self-harm, serious assaults recorded across immigration detention centres
ABC News Australiaby Investigative Reporter Emily Baker·13 Sept 2026
In short: Conditions at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre have deteriorated since private company Secure Journeys began running the facility, workers say.
Alice Duncan-Kemp was an empathetic observer of Mithaka culture, but her legacy is complicated
The Conversation Australiaby Eve Vincent, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Macquarie University·13 Sept 2026
Alice’s dreaming is centrally about the childhood, memories and writings of Alice Duncan-Kemp (1901-1988), who grew up on a pastoral property named Mooraberrie in the first decades of the 20th...
A brief history of collage from 12th century Japan to Sydney today – and your own kitchen table
The Conversation Australiaby Alexandra Crosby, Professor, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney·13 Sept 2026
Collage is ancient, with roots going back to the invention of paper in East Asia. In 12th century Japan, paper was used for calligraphy, and artists pasted different papers, fabrics and torn...
What are statins? And can healthy people use them to prevent heart disease and dementia?
The Conversation Australiaby Nicole Pratt, Professor of Biostatistics and Pharmacoepidemiology, Adelaide University·13 Sept 2026
Every month, around 2.7 million Australians have a statin dispensed to lower their risk of heart attack and stroke.
Too many students have ‘reading anxiety’. New research suggests it is triggered by problems in primary school
The Conversation Australiaby Genevieve McArthur, Professor at the Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy, Australian Catholic University·13 Sept 2026
Western Australian author Hamish Kelly has struggled with reading for almost two decades. In his first of two books, he describes his experience of learning to read: The letters in words were...
Australia must double down to meet our climate targets. Our new study shows how
The Conversation Australiaby Bill Hare, Adjunct Professor of Energy, Murdoch University·13 Sept 2026
Within the next five years, global warming is set to breach the 1.5°C threshold at the heart of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
We may be able to turn off the algorithm, but we can’t escape the misogyny of the manosphere
The Conversation Australiaby Naomi Pfitzner, Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Hub and Senior Lecturer in Criminology Monash University, Monash University·13 Sept 2026
The federal government recently announced a suite of new laws designed to address harmful content on digital platforms.
Data centres in Australia: your questions answered
The Conversation Australiaby Signe Dean, Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation·13 Sept 2026
We put a call-out to our audience: what questions do you have about data centres? We were quickly overwhelmed with responses and had to close the survey.
Data centres have existed for decades. So why are they so controversial now?
The Conversation Australiaby Johanna Lim, Research Associate, Strategic Technologies, University of Sydney·13 Sept 2026
Until recently, data centres attracted relatively little public attention. They were largely treated as invisible pieces of digital infrastructure: essential but rarely discussed outside technical...
'Living sand' aims to bring crops to infertile desert wastelands
New Atlasby Maryna Holovnova·13 Sept 2026
Agriculture in the United Arab Emirates is associated with a lot of challenges. Most of the country is desert, and only about 5% of its land is suitable for farming.
Patient suffers torn oesophagus after using unapproved peptide
ABC News Australiaby Rachel Carbonell·13 Sept 2026
In short: The medicines regulator has revealed a patient suffered a torn oesophagus after using an unapproved weight-loss peptide labelled as retatrutide.
Ballarat girl in child protection system found dead in squat house
ABC News Australiaby Eden Hynninen and Coco Veldkamp·13 Sept 2026
Mia, whose name has been changed to protect the identity of children, loved to dress up as a child, and would sing along to every song, even if she didn't know the words.
Tomahawks and wine: How long was Gold Coast mayor's 'dinner' with Trump?
ABC News Australiaby Liam Walsh·13 Sept 2026
In short: Earlier this year, Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate declared he had dinner with US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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