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Virginia Roberts Giuffre as a teenager Source: Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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‘Downfall’ of ex-prince Andrew comes too late for victim

The downfall of Andrew Windsor has come too late for the victim at the centre of the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse scandal, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died by suicide in her WA home earlier this year.

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Tech turning against us Illustration: Don Lindsay

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When even WiFi is a rotten snitch, it’s time man fights back

In what is being called the end of a WFH era, Microsoft Teams plans to introduce a new feature that will tell an employee’s boss exactly where they are when they log in remotely.

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Kate Emery

‘Modern life is atrophying our brains cell-by-cell and we risk speeding up the process by outsourcing tasks to generative AI.’

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Are we all becoming comfortably dumb as we turn to AI?

The bad news is that your AI habit is making you dumber.

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Should Government support Royal Show Illustration: Don Lindsay

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Royal Show is expensive but more subsidies not the answer

Crowds at the Perth Royal Show were down and I knew this before official figures confirmed it because my kids and I attended and at no point did I feel the urge to throw myself under a combine harvester.

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‘Sunscreen is a scam’: Influencers pose risk to sun safety

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‘Sunscreen is a scam’: Influencers pose risk to sun safety

The problem is not, whatever TikTok influencers might want you to believe, that sunscreen is a scam.

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The reality is that most Australians aren’t eating enough fruit and vegetables and we’re eating too many so-called ‘discretionary’ foods, which is a polite way of saying ‘junk food’, writes Kate Emery.

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Our diets are rubbish because life is too loud

The reality is that most Australians aren’t eating enough fruit and vegetables and we’re eating too many so-called ‘discretionary’ foods.

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JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! was pulled off air indefinitely.

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Communist censorship: Muting is no way to run a democracy

Freedom of speech is being quashed as seen with US President’s administration applying pressure on Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s comments.

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Will the social media ban be regarded as ahead of its time, a logical response to watching a generation poisoned via smartphone, asks Kate Emery?

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Why the social media ban for kids should pass test of time

Will the social media ban be regarded as ahead of its time, a logical response to watching a generation poisoned via smartphone? There’s some evidence to suggest it will.

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It’s tempting to sneer at people younger than you for not being able to do the things you take for granted, writes Kate Emery.

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Don’t blame kids for needing adulting 101 courses

This column is not intended to be a salvo fired in the generational wars but to ask the question: what basic life skills should older generations be teaching the younger ones?

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Incentives to encourage take-up of EVs was both a good idea and successful, writes Kate Emery.

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Road levies must encourage electric vehicle take-up

Making all road users pay to maintain and build roads makes sense. The hard part is how to make it fair.

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How dare the Productivity Commission propose that the country’s writers, filmmakers and musicians simply lie down in the path of the AI monolith, writes Kate Emery.

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How dare the commission propose that the country’s writers, filmmakers and musicians simply lie down in the path of the AI monolith that is coming for them like the boulder came for Indiana Jones.

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Best Before 50 Illustration: Don Lindsay

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Writing off workers over 50 is ageist and bad for business

Think life begins at 50? A quarter of Aussie bosses might disagree — and it’s fuelling a quiet workplace crisis.

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In Australia, LGBTQI rights are mostly not under legislative attack, writes Kate Emery.

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Homophobia rears its ugly head in Australia and overseas

It’s tempting sometimes to think of social progress as a train that only runs in one direction. That is a dumb metaphor for a couple of reasons.

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Quotas work in getting more women politicians elected. If that’s what the Liberal Party wants to do, they should, at the very least, not shut down the conversation, writes Kate Emery.

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Liberal Party shouldn’t shut the door on quotas

Getting a job by virtue of your sex just doesn’t feel right. But in lieu of a time machine, quotas are one of the best weapons against gender bias.

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Longer winter break for kids is a win for parents

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Longer winter break for kids is a win for parents

An extra week of winter holidays for WA’s public school kids makes sense for a simple two-word reason.

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There is no greater TV dad than Bluey’s Bandit: the blue heeler blessed with almost limitless love and patience. 

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Why dads should choose to be like Bluey’s Bandit father

Dads. They get a hard time sometimes.

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‘The market for dumbphones — phones without internet access — is tipped by Statista to be worth $16 billion this year,’ writes Kate Emery.

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Forget about Apple, put your money in dumbphones

Mark Zuckerberg does it. Zoe Foster-Blake does it. A Melbourne private school wants its parents to do it. And, if you have young kids, you probably want to do it too.

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The site earmarked for Perth’s first children’s hospice, scheduled to open at the end of the year.

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Hospice park fight is selfish NIMBYism at its most vile

The kerfuffle over a slice of Swanbourne’s Allen Park reserve is the kind of story that gets more ridiculous the more you hear about it.

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Independent Kate Chaney has been re-elected in the hotly contested seat of Curtin following the federal election over the weekend.

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Liberal’s blind spot on women pushes it to irrelevance

Re-elected teal independent Kate Chaney won’t say it in so many words but there is, surely, an alternate universe where she and other female independents are standing with the Liberal Party today.

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‘The days when a six-figure salary was a bulwark against hard times are behind us, underscoring just how quickly and completely the cost of living crisis has arrived,’ writes Kate Emery.

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Why a six-figure salary ain’t what it used to be

The days when a six-figure salary was a bulwark against hard times are behind us, underscoring just how quickly and completely the cost of living crisis has arrived.

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Kate Emery

Adolescence is a four-part British series.~|~|Xqxc6FLAze

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Adolescence critics are missing the point

Is Adolescence a gripping piece of entertainment and nothing more, a must-watch educational tool or a misandrist assault?

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Runt features an all-star cast including BREC board member Michelle Doake.

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US billionaires are stealing Aussie books

At the turn of the century you couldn’t watch a movie without sitting through a now-notorious public service announcement about film piracy.

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Toni Butti to do list llustration: Don Lindsay

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Is this the biggest To Do list in WA politics?

If Tony Buti has plans to catch up on the new season of White Lotus, get in a spot of gardening or squeeze in another marathon, he’d better make it snappy.

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Happiness is the thing everyone wants, too few of us have and that Australian politicians so rarely mention, writes Kate Emery.

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High time our MPs started trying to make us happy

KATE EMERY: Happiness is the thing everyone wants, too few of us have and that Australian politicians so rarely mention. Maybe it’s time to change that.

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