By Matthew Benetti, Policy Manager (Energy), Climateworks Centre
Eleanor Guerra, Policy & Stakeholder Coordinator, Climateworks Centre
Australia is in the middle of a rapid data centre rollout. Warehouses full of computer servers that run the artificial intelligence (AI) tools society increasingly uses are being built at pace, and they draw heavily on essential resources.
Data centres need large amounts of electricity, water and land. Without the right planning and oversight, developers will secure what they need at the expense of Australia’s economy, nature and communities.
Without careful design, data centres could increase power bills, put pressure on water supplies, and slow the transition to net…
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By Felicity Castagna, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University
Foreign ‘invasion plots’ have featured in Australian literature for more than a century. Though critiqued by some authors, fears of white erasure endure.
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By Hedda Haugen Askland, Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of Newcastle
Whether steelmaking returns to Whyalla is only part of the story. The intervening years could have consequences of their own, and the community will need support.
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By Emma Beckett, Senior Lecturer, Nutrition and Food Science, Australian Catholic University
Coffee is best known, and perhaps most valued, for its caffeine and its ability to make us feel more awake and alert.
But coffee is much more than caffeine dissolved in hot water.
Coffee is a chemically complicated plant extract containing hundreds of bioactive compounds. These can have all kinds of weird and wonderful effects in your body, even when you’re drinking decaf.
Here are seven of the strangest.
1. Coffee can make you poo
One study shows about
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By Guzyal Hill, Research fellow, Law, The University of Melbourne
A record 44,039 Australians lodged claims at the Fair Work Commission between July 2025 and April 2026.
Those claims cover everything from unfair dismissal and underpayment disputes to bullying, sexual harassment and, most recently, arguments over the right…
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By Katharina Belt, Postdoctoral Researcher, Agricultural Science, The University of Western Australia
Samantha Harvie, Research Associate, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Australian farmers are heading into spring with an unusual mix of optimism and uncertainty.
The latest crop forecast from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) predicts the nation’s farmers will harvest 61 million tonnes of winter crops.
That would be Australia’s fourth-largest winter harvest on record, sitting 16%…
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By Kristie Patricia Flannery, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
Talk Like A Pirate Day is one of the internet’s favourite holidays. But who were these infamous seafarers and how did they really talk?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Pollution and steam are seen rising from the stacks of the Miami Fort Power Station along the Ohio River, in North Bend, Ohio, on July 23, 2026. © 2026 Jason Whitman/NurPhoto via AP Photo The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on September 14 that it is repealing limits on climate-warming pollution from coal and gas-fired power plants, the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the country.By gutting the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, the EPA is eliminating most of the limits on power plants’ carbon emissions. The move is…
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By Daria Dergacheva
At first, artists who emigrated still dealt with themes of war and their departure from Russia. Later, these broadened to include loss of home, identity, displacement and loneliness.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the US State Department’s announcement in a statement yesterday that it has, for the second consecutive year, barred the high-level delegation of the State of Palestine, including Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, from attending the UN General Assembly in New York, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, Erika Guevara Rosas […] The post US State Department must reverse decision to ban Palestine delegation from attending UNGA session in New York appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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