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Remembering Toni Lamond: the Australian stage legend who made me fall in love with theatre
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 19:46:50 +1100
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What is Taiwan and why is it important? A new study shows Australians struggle to answer these questions
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 19:44:16 +1100
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https://theconversation.com/what-is-taiwan-and-why-is-it-important-a-new-study-shows-australians-struggle-to-answer-these-questions-269809>
"Recently, a new documentary was screened across Australia about the late
Taiwanese Australian professor Chwei-Liang Chiou, who dedicated his life to
improving relations between Taiwan and Australia.
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‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 19:43:31 +1100
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/04/nauru-australia-offshore-processing-asylum-seekers-conditions-hunger-declining-health>
"Asylum seekers sent to Nauru by Australia say they are going hungry on the
island, prohibited from working to support themselves and given insufficient
money to buy enough food.
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Cassette tapes are making a comeback. Yes, really
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 19:36:36 +1100
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https://theconversation.com/cassette-tapes-are-making-a-comeback-yes-really-268108>
"For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on
fast forward at the moment.
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Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 19:35:49 +1100
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply>
"As Australia rides the AI boom with dozens of new investments in datacentres
in Sydney and Melbourne, experts are warning about the impact these massive
projects will have on already strained water resources.
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K'gari’s unique ancient lakes once dried out. Could this happen again?
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 19:34:55 +1100
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https://theconversation.com/kgaris-unique-ancient-lakes-once-dried-out-could-this-happen-again-270371>
"The lakes on the world’s biggest sand island, K'gari, are famous. Pivotal to
the World Heritage listing of the Queensland island formerly known as Fraser
Island, their turquoise waters feature in international tourism campaigns and
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Chinese Sources Push Territorial Claims With Mistranslations
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 11:13:34 +1100
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https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/chinese-sources-push-territorial?r=60itk4>
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What happened: Pro-China sources are spreading manipulated videos
purportedly showing residents of the Japanese Ryukyu Islands saying they’re
Chinese, not Japanese, in an apparent effort to bolster Beijing’s territorial
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State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 11:10:04 +1100
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https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5633444/trump-content-moderation-visas-censorship>
“The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from
people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the
Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech.
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New Data Shows COVID-19 Infection Much Worse For Children Than the Vaccine
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 11:08:15 +1100
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https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/new-data-shows-covid-19-infection-much-worse-for-children-than-the-vaccine/>
"We’ve all heard variations of this conversation: “The virus isn’t that bad for
children, and the vaccine has its own risks. Isn’t it better to just skip it?”
It is a fair question, and one born of love and protection. Thanks to a
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T1 Energy is betting big on all-American solar, even under Trump
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 11:07:08 +1100
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https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/t1-energy-texas-factory
"DALLAS — The automated machinery and bright, clean factory floor wouldn’t look
out of place in the solar manufacturing hub of Changzhou, China. But every so
often, the pristine industrial order was punctuated by, of all things, carrier
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