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The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union seven years ago today.

The referendum divided old from young, Scotland and Northern Ireland from England, and the Prime Minister from his job.

In …

Bills to legalise cannabis were introduced to parliaments in NSW, Victoria and WA in a coordinated push this week.

The draft laws were tabled by members of the Legalise Cannabis Party, and they come …

Artificial intelligence and music has been in the headlines lately, from The Beatles using AI to release new music, to the Grammys announcing updates to their rules for songs not wholly created by hu…

Writer and researcher Akuch Kuol Anyieth joins Sam and Zara on the podcast in honour of World Refugee Day.

Akuch is currently researching family violence intervention orders within Melbourne’s South …

A group of 16 young people have taken the government of the U.S. state of Montana to court, arguing its climate policies are jeopardising their rights and violating the state’s constitution. It’s the…

A campaign launched this week by youth-led organisation Make It 16 is calling on the federal government to lower the legal voting age to 16.

Supporters of the push say that if 16- and 17-year-olds ca…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been indicted for the second time this year. The new criminal charges relate to his handling of secret government documents when he left office in 2021.

He’s pl…

Figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have ramped up fears that Australia may be heading toward a recession, with economic experts from Commonwealth Bank and HSBC putting …

The recently announced Apple Vision Pro has the tech world buzzing. Apple is claiming it marks a new era in tech, and is suggesting that these headsets will become part of our daily lives.

But how re…

The first uterine transplant has officially happened in Australia.

We first spoke to Kirsty last year, when she was a hopeful candidate for a uterine transplant trial. Now, Kirsty has received not ju…

We often hear about wages in the context of the rising cost of living, wage theft or insecure work.

You may have even recently heard about a rise to the minimum wage. But when it comes to wages, how …

A survey by period justice charity, Share the Dignity, found 15% of those who menstruate in the ACT have experienced period poverty at some point.

Now, a bill set to pass parliament today aims to mak…

The Federal Government has revealed draft legislation to reform smoking in Australia as part of its plan to reduce the proportion of daily smokers from just over 10% to 5% or less by 2030.

We know va…

Ben Roberts-Smith has lost his defamation case against Nine newspapers.

The judge found claims about Roberts-Smith committing war crimes were “substantially true”, and yet he hasn’t been found guilty…

If you're a man who has sex with men, there are limits on whether you can donate blood or plasma in Australia.

But things could be about to change. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has now endors…

The AFL has dropped its investigation into allegations of racism towards First Nations players at the Hawthorn Football Club.
AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan said it was an “imperfect resolution”, and acknow…

Some of the world's harshest legislation against homosexuality has passed into law in Uganda.

The law introduces new penalties of up to 10 years for a range of homosexual acts and in some cases, call…

Eating disorders are among the most deadly of mental health conditions, with teens at particularly high risk.

Research shows however, that eating disorders receive the least amount of mental health f…

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) went from investigating multinational fraud for the Australian Government, to being investigated by the government for helping multinational companies to commit fraud.

Th…

Once upon a time, Donald Trump threw his support behind Ron DeSantis’ campaign to be Governor of Florida.
Now, the two men are going head-to-head in a race to be the Republican nominee for President.
I…