4+ hour, 15+ min ago   (998+ words) September 14, 2026 — 2:10pm Brisbane’s inner-city streets came to a standstill on Monday as the Queensland Police Service farewelled its former leader, Steve Gollschewski, who died of cancer earlier this month, aged 67. Uniformed police officers lined the streets alongside citizens as funeral processions…...

8+ hour, 26+ min ago   (260+ words) Australia has been, always, a nation of coastal dwellers. For decades the first white settlers were so afeared of what lay beyond the Blue Mountains they clung to Sydney’s shoreline. Only in 1813 — twenty-five years after they came ashore — did Wentworth,…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (27+ words) SUBTITLE: As parenting transforms from guidance into strict regulation, dialogue comes to an end, and the Communication Gap becomes …...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (184+ words) Andrew Weissmann turns the tables on Sarah Longwell for a conversation about her new book, How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time—and what a post-Trump political future could look like. How to Eat An Elephant is…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (799+ words) For the past several years, the conversation around electric vehicles in British Columbia has often been framed in absolutes. Governments established ambitious sales targets, manufacturers accelerated electrification plans, and the automotive sector prepared for what was expected to be a…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (343+ words) New independent evaluations have shown three Ministry of Social Development-funded programmes are making a difference in preventing family violence. Evaluations of E Tū Whānau, Pasefika Proud and the Ethnic Communities Violence Prevention programme found positive shifts in attitudes, behaviours and…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (231+ words) Reading Time: 1 minute, 16 seconds It was a discouraging, but not surprising, diagnosis for Julian Dean of Santa Barbara. Like many members of his family, he'd been diagnosed with macular degeneration. "My mother had it, my father had it, my older…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (397+ words) The City of Corvallis and the union representing most of its employees have submitted their final contract offers to the state’s Employee Relations Board. Required by law, the filing includes total costs for each proposal. The City of Corvallis says…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1233+ words) 10 Sep 2026 | BY Dr Sarath Mataraarachchi The town planner is the professional expected to bring together the many forces that shape cities, towns and human settlements. The planner is, in a sense, the brain behind the city: not because the planner…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (423+ words) All of these examples represent the substitution of unpaid for paid work. And, for the most part, they have created a good deal of consumer value. With AI promising to move yet more activity across the production boundary, the question…...