Frontline mental health cash used for controversial fund
Money earmarked for frontline mental health services, including tackling severe workforce shortages, was “reprioritised” to ...
Why federal courts are unlikely to save democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s attacks
The problem goes beyond the political leanings of judges to the speed of change and the administration’s apparent willingness ...
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US aid cuts put lives at risk globally, warn organizations
Norsk Folkehjelp warns of the serious consequences of the US decision to stop funding humanitarian aid. The lives of thousands of people worldwide may be at risk. The humanitarian organization Norsk ...
Arts Council demands high standards of cultural organisations. It failed to meet them itself
A new IT framework will have seemed a good idea to many in the arts, but much went wrong in its implementation ...
Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold
In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...
As DOGE hammers away at the US government, Republicans stir with quiet objections
While Democrats have been speaking out against President Donald Trump's federal cuts, Republicans are just beginning to stir.
Fifty countries affected by USAID freeze, says WHO
Programmes to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of ...