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Tweet of the week, 1 November 2026

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The Year that Made Me: Dr Rose McGready, 2026

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Houdini's Halloween Escape

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How Matt Brown helps men break the cycle of domestic violence

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Extra Intrigue: political star returns to Venezuela and the staggering economics of Anthropic

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Serbia's new leaderless government

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Tweet of the week, 25 October 2026

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The film festival "dedicated to the worst cameras in the world"

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The Year that Made Me: Nicholas Brown, 1996

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The mutation that bent blood: A history of sickle cell and the search for a cure

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How social media misinformation campaigns change our conversations

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Why Germany is yet to apologise for Namibia genocide

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Hostage Families seek a reckoning in Israel Election

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Tweet of the week, 18 October 2026

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The Year that Made Me: Suzie Miller, 1995

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How to rob banks (and other such places)

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Lab leaks are a lot more common than you might think

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Nepal's arduous climb to recovery

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The first African credit rating agency

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Tweet of the week, 11 October 2026

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The Year that Made Me: Lorrie Graham, 1975

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The "Platypus Man": Harry Burrell, forgotten vaudeville naturalist

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Sylvia Plath Stole My Boyfriend: Liz Hicklin in the spotlight

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Raygun on Breaking Badly

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The race to keep time on the moon

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Indonesia's disappearing glaciers

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Nobel Prize winner Karl Deisseroth on the discovery that revolutionised neuroscience

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Tweet of the week, 4 October 2026

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The Year That Made Me: Dr Anyier Yuol, 2010

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Theatre takes young audiences inside the tent of unaccompanied refugees

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Sunday Intrigue October - Switzerland playing Switzerland and Brazil elections

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Just can't do it? Nike falls off S&P 100 after 18 years

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Operation Kingfisher: Sandakan revisited

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Kosovo clears the ground for an era of renewal

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Hawking bio reveals the human behind the genius

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Tweet of the week, 27 September 2026

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Tasmanian devils once lived alongside humans in WA's Juukan Gorge

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Outside islanders: author Winnie Dunn on representation in publishing

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From 'frustratingly discreet' to tell-all, the rise of Australian performance politics

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Togo's Foreign Minister on how they changed the world's maps

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Cambodia's multi-billion dollar scam industry

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How to solve Australia's housing crisis

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The Year that Made Me: Michael Robotham, 1979

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Tweet of the week, 20 September 2026

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The Year that Made Me: Mem Fox, 1982

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Face-to-face with Carlos the Jackal, the world's first super terrorist

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Rewiring Asia's democracies

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The National Communication Museum's 'Radical Computing' exhibition is a love letter to the personal computer

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Turi King and the human stories behind our DNA

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How researchers figured out Australia's pre-colonial population was grossly underestimated

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Historic election in Philippines autonomous region

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The troubles that come with a free meal

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Tweet of the week, 13 September 2026

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The Year that Made Me: Sandy Mackinnon, 1982

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A backyard astronomer from Broken Hill has contributed to a world-first space discovery

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Why banks are moving billions in gold around the world

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Puggle season is upon Australia's 'Enigmatic Echidnas'

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Fighting for Country, Kin and Nation

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What does it sound like when neutron stars collide?

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The sinking of the Indus Treaty

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BRICS summit sees first Xi visit to India since 2019

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The Year that Made Me, Rosalie Ham, 2000

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What Samuel Beckett saw in Nazi Germany

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Tenzin Choegyal's musical tribute to the Dalai Lama

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Extra Intrigue: CIA director's dash to Moscow and Xi and Trump prepare to meet

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Pioneering astronomer Nancy Grace Roman honoured in space

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Eureka prize winner Helen Paterson on why a truthful witness can sound unreliable

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Is the era of ultra fast-fashion over? Shein's stock market stumble

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What were you doing at 11? Anderson Taylor runs his own museum

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The Year that Made Me: Andrew Upton, 2025

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Muppets in the museum

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Why Danny Estrin is driven by 'Precious Metal'

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Lily Shearer on evoking Country

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Can AI improve our democracy?

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Japan will soon test missiles in Australia, here's why

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Syria's new economic and security landscape

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Poetry between the written and spoken words

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The Year that Made Me, Bharat Sundaresan, 2007

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Pro Jank Footy: the video game love letter to our "absurd" footy culture

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Jane Hutcheon on uncovering family history secrets

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“If you read me, weep”: Prophetic warnings of Europe's hunger stones

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Clinical Trial of the Year

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Kazakhstan elects representatives to brand new parliament

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Taiwan’s mega defence budget signals determination to head off China threat

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Tweet of the week, 16 August 2026

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The Year that Made Me: Anika Molesworth, 2006

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Hazel de Berg and the birth of oral history in Australia

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Hard as Puck: inside the hardcore world of para ice hockey

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From ancient Rome to Nazi Germany, the remarkable history of the census

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Iceland votes on whether on un-freeze EU membership talks

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Could a New UN Tax Deal Raise $500 Billion a Year?

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Viet Nam sees its diaspora as a 'strategic asset', but many Australians distrust its communist leaders

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The Year that Made Me: Colin Barnett, 1985

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The Sacrifice of Farinelli examines the life of superstar castrato

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Tony Jones' new film asks if we can live without animal testing

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The Fatal Island - Paul Toohey

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Borderline confusing: enclaves and exclaves of the world

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Can AI scribes ease the burden on doctors without compromising care?

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Is Tibet in danger of cultural extinction?

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Vale Bill Oddie: funny man, bird man