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Novak Djokovic’s path to legal vindication was long and convoluted. It may also be fleeting

Image" Hamish Blair/AP Novak Djokovic is – at least for now – free to defend his title at the Australian Open after Judge Anthony Kelly...

Morrison’s political judgement goes missing on rapid antigen test debacle

Image: AAP/Lukas Coch January 3 2022 was a day like most others in the roughly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic preceding it – except...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has the power to stop misleading advertising. So why can’t it stop Craig Kelly’s texts?

  Picture: AAP/Mick Tsikas Earlier this month, many Australians received a text message prompting them to visit the “Australian Government’s COVID-19 Vaccines Adverse Events Report.” It...

Right out there: how the pandemic has given rise to extreme views and fractured conservative politics

  Image: Wes Mountain/The Conversation Great crises are a stimulus to right-wing political mobilisation. Famously, the Great Depression of the 1930s gave the Nazis their...

Albanese calls for $300 vaccination incentive, as rollout extended to vulnerable children

  Picture: Mick Tsikas/AAP The opposition has urged the government to provide a $300 incentive payment to everyone who is fully vaccinated by December 1,...

Could Britain be sued for reopening and putting the world at risk from new COVID variants?

  Picture: GettyImages With most COVID-19 restrictions now lifted in England, the world is watching to see what this so-called “freedom day” will bring. Some scepticism is warranted,...

Grattan on Saturday: Shortage of fuel hampers the general’s vaccine advance

 Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP Despite some questioning about a military man being in charge of the vaccine rollout, when it comes to communicating, Lieutenant General JJ...

Would Australians support mandates for the COVID-19 vaccine? Our research suggests most would

  Picture: Dean Lewins/AAP Australia’s vaccine rollout is moving far more slowly than the government had hoped, and there is evidence of vaccine hesitancy in a significant part of...

Only a small fraction of buildings with flammable cladding have been fixed, and owners are feeling the strain

 Picture: MFB Australia has more than 3,400 buildings with flammable cladding. In Victoria alone, at least 71 of these buildings have been classified as “extreme risk” and another 368...

Can I have a pet and be housed, too? It all depends…

 Darren Fisher, Author provided Barriers to housing for people with pets around Australia are the focus of newly released national research by an interdisciplinary team. Why? Because laws...
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