The death of Margaret Joyce Binns did not begin as a public scandal. It began, as so many late-life tragedies do, with a small and sudden misstep—a fall in the kitchen, a blow to the head, the hurried call for help, and the desperate hope that a hospital would be able to put things right. Mrs Binns was 82 years old when she was taken to Launceston General Hospital in 2020. She never recovered. Her death, which at the time may have seemed like the sorrowful but unsurprising end of an elderly woman’s life, has since become something else entirely:…

Who Benefits from Wildfire Misinformation? The air smells like a scorched earth, thick with the acrid remnants of a forest that once stood tall. The sky turns a sickly orange, and the sound of sirens blends with the frantic barking of dogs being herded into cars. In the terrifying chaos of a wildfire—the constant pinging of emergency alerts, the frantic packing of photo albums, the desperate search for loved ones—there is an equally frantic scramble for answers. Why is this happening? Who is to blame? Why didn’t we stop it sooner? It is in this vacuum of fear and uncertainty…