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Blocked by Nauru? Country’s wild Twitter account is crisis PR gone bad

Australian and New Zealand tourists heading for Nauru yesterday found their visas had been cancelled, but that is not the only kind of visitation the island nation has blocked.

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Mobile Facebook finally looks at home on Android

If you are reading this on an Andriod mobile or tablet, there is a good chance your address and notifications bars are a purple-ish colour.

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Metro derailment: what goes around runs aground

Handing Melbourne’s metropolitan network over to cost-cutting, profit-seeking private companies has led to incredibly poor track and train maintenance.

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With the UN set to back Assange, will the Australian government finally defend its citizen?

THE AUSTRALIAN government’s limp response to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s plight in Europe is the David Hicks case all over again. Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop now have the chance to end the similarities.

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Adidas’ space suit may look cool, but it doesn’t have to do much

YOU can’t expect the wealthy to rough it, no matter how much you want them to, so it comes as no surprise that Virgin Galactic commissioned award winning fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto to design a space suit.

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It’s 2016 and people still complain about punk bands

Here’s hoping this letter is a fake.

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Metro is getting what it wants: V/Line off the rails and in its hands

IN 2012, Victoria’s suburban rail operator Metro asked the state government to boot V/Line from the Pakenham line.

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Ch-ch-changes: David Bowie completes his latest transformation in ‘Blackstar’

DAVID Bowie has undergone some ch-ch-changes this decade, and his 25th studio album, Blackstar, is the most comfortable expression of his new sound yet.

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Find the Panda II – leveraging viral success without boring the fanbase

One of the runaway successes of Christmas 2015 was a drawing by Hungarian cartoonist Gergely “Dudolf” Dudás. Challenging followers to spot a panda drawn among a sea of happy snowmen, the image went viral.

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Cartoonist nails what President Trump would mean for America

Posted by Extra Fabulous Comics on Monday, 4 January 2016 One of my favourite webcomic artists, Extra Fabulous Comics, has summarised what a Donald Trump presidency would mean for the United States of America.

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The best short sci-fi to read this holiday

HAVE an hour to kill this summer? Check out one of the best and most under-recognised short time travel stories ever written – Arthur C. Clarke’s Time’s Arrow.

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Floods remind us climate change, not migration, is our biggest threat

Devastating floods in the United Kingdom have pushed thousands from their homes in a blunt reminder of what the real top threat to society is. 

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It’s time to ‘junk’ Maurice Newman

Maurice Newman, the junked business advisor to junked prime minister Tony Abbott, grabbed headlines today for describing climate change evidence as “junk science.”