Society

The findings were contained in a Productivity Commission research paper, which also found that new technology could inject $116 billion into the economy. 

The twin brother of a young woman who died of a preventable cancer after choosing to have coffee enemas instead of conventional treatment has recalled the moment he found out she had died. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Oslo wants to parlay the skills of the petroleum industry and its favourable geology into a kind of garbage disposal service for emissions from heavy industry.

Smartraveller issues urgent warning for Aussie travellers about rabies infections in Indonesia, with popular tourist spots identified as red zones for the 100 per cent fatal disease.

From misdiagnosis to treatment struggles, new data reveals the heavy toll migraines take on women, but the support gap is still left unfilled.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: New research suggests that people can lose more weight by avoiding these hugely popular foods.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: NASA has put out a call for commercial interests to establish a nuclear reactor on the Moon. It is, however, not clear what it will power.

THE ECONOMIST: Paying for lunch in instalments may seem ludicrous, but that hasn’t dented the industry’s growth.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ann Buszard, a retired nurse, had never so much as touched a weight until she was 74, when she found herself struggling to stand up after kneeling down. She wanted to get stronger.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Sometimes there is something unseen in the story, and the mistake isn’t to theorise about it; it’s to lock on too quickly to a single theory.

The offer also reportedly included ‘top bonuses’ and ‘extraordinary stock performance’.

A person trying to reduce gender inequality could lawfully disadvantage certain groups, lawyers for a women-only app that removed a transgender user argue.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Those coveted five-star ratings may be doing more harm than good.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Everybody eats potatoes, it seems, but nobody can say where they came from.

From a micro-managing CEO to a powerful HR department, the world’s most notorious ransomware gang operated like a regular software business.