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The federal government’s toughened-up stance on Australian women and children stranded in Syria risks legal and electoral fallout ...

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A personal reflection on Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, 30 years after its drug-fuelled repugnance and ‘Cool Britannia’ sheen ...

Sixty years ago, the US dropped more than two million tonnes of ordnance on Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, much of which remains unexploded to this day, a terrible legacy endangering lives and requ ...

A Catholic parish in Perth has foregone the traditional wall of crematorial niches for peaceful chambers enclosed within graceful limestone walls ...

Volunteers fire up vintage aircraft in a Victorian town that once hosted aviators Charles Kingsford Smith and Amy Johnson ...