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Senate throws out budget plan to remove health insurance top up for older people
The Senate has rejected the government’s controversial budget measure to cut the private health insurance rebate for people 65 and older.
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Early flu season: why you should get your jab sooner this year
September flu activity was higher than in the past four winters, and the main H1N1 strain has drifted from the one in this year’s vaccine.
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I’ve been studying election integrity for 26 years, and here’s why I expect a normal election this November instead of chaos
Mayhem at the polls on Election Day 2026? Americans are worried. But a scholar of election law who has also run a nationwide election protection program says he doesn’t believe it will happen.
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China and the EU could turn Morocco into a surprise global hub for electric vehicles
The north African country has attracted huge amounts of investment.
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Just 6 in 100 Australian truckies are women. Here’s what would get more behind the wheel
A new report finds the trucking industry urgently needs tens of thousands more drivers – yet it hasn’t built the conditions for women to safely stay.
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Should you watch a tiger mauling a man – or a live-streamed execution? We asked an ethicist
We should pause and think about what we would want if our death was being filmed and our dignity or privacy were at stake.
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In newly independent US, Americans debated whether public executions taught a lesson or just showed off the state’s power to destroy
The conflict over the wisdom of Nidal Hasan’s public execution is not a new one. Americans at the republic’s founding debated – and doubted – whether watching someone die would teach a useful lesson.
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Just politics or the ‘opposite of clever’? The risks and rewards of strategic voting
Vote splitting and parliamentary overhangs are not unheard of in New Zealand elections. But making them a deliberate campaign tactic is different.
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Animal life may be far older than its most ancient fossils – here’s how we uncovered its hidden history
Scientists have long debated how old animal life is.
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A global report gives NZ tertiary education a pass – but hides another side of the story
New Zealand’s tertiary figures look healthy on paper. But they lean heavily on migrants’ qualifications, while fewer young people raised here go on to study.