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Leigh Tonkin

Leigh Tonkin

Editor, Features And Context at ABC Science Online

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    Recent Articles

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    COVID has been in Australia for two years — twice as long as the Spanish flu — with no end in sight

    Two years ago today, Australia first joined the COVID club. Within days we’d have more cases, within weeks our own lockdowns, writes Leigh Tonkin.
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    The budget gives an insight on how Ukraine war and global uncertain...

    If the last two budgets were delivered under the spectre of COVID, this year’s budget has a different bogeyman: the outbreak of war in Europe and growing unrest in the Asia-Pacific region.
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    The Queen's last 516 days without the man who called her 'Cabbage'

    One year, five months ago — or 516 days — Queen Elizabeth faced one of the biggest personal challenges of her reign: the death of her consort, Prince Philip.
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    The 'real victims' of the Optus data breach

    The nine days which have elapsed since the largest data breach of its kind was disclosed have been filled with confusion, with Optus struggling to explain to customers who is affected and how.
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    Bill Granger brought avocado toast to cafes. It came to mean so muc...

    Thirty years ago Bill Granger put a dish on his Darlinghurst cafe menu. It came to represent so much more to a generation locked out of the housing market, writes Leigh Tonkin.
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    White House's $26.7b warning to Israel: Improve aid or we'll cut yo...

    The US government warns Israel that if it does not improve access to humanitarian aid in Gaza in the next 30 days, American military funding to the country may be cut.
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    Kamala Harris concedes US election to Donald Trump the day after he...

    Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has conceded the election to Donald Trump, saying she respects the result but would not give up the fight that fuelled her campaign. 
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    Biden calls for Americans to 'bring down the temperature' in first ...

    US President Joe Biden has called for Americans to "bring down the temperature" of political debate in his first speech since Donald Trump's comprehensive win in Tuesday's election. 
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    Abortion rights were also on the agenda in the US election. Here's ...

    Abortion rights were also on the agenda in the US election. Here's what happened
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    Could Trump really not own a mobile phone? Albanese's claim doesn't...

    High-stake election campaigns and high school popularity politics have a lot more in common than you'd hope for grown men vying to run the country.
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    Today in history: How a gas cloud killed thousands in world's worst...

    It started with a cloud of gas in the dead of night, silently submerging the city in a toxic soup. By morning on December 3, 1984, an Indian city awoke to a nightmare.