At Sydney Airport on a muggy night in 2022, a group of volunteers from Sydney’s northern beaches wait to greet a family of refugees they had never met. They’re part of an ambitious new pilot program in which a sponsoring community acts as the safety net for refugees rather than government-funded services. But two years on, the program’s successes are hitting constraints.

Today, Cheyne Anderson on whether the experiment is a sustainable pathway to settlement, or a shortcut to positive government PR.

Smut Clyde spends several hours every day, scouring online science journals for suspicious-looking research. He’s part of a growing team of online ‘science sleuths’, combating the rising number of fake research papers being published.

Today, Cheyne Anderson on how this epidemic of fraudulent research is infecting the scientific record.