How hot was it yesterday? Did those storms keep you awake? What’s happening with the fires? Have you seen how much rain is falling up North? We all love to talk about the weather, and right now it is ...

Mis- and disinformation have once again been named the top global risk of the immediate term in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025. This comes just days after Meta ...

For the first time, the Australian school curriculum has been revised to focus on ‘truth-telling’. In many societies with histories of violence or injustice, telling the truth about the past is an ...

Education does not just impart information; it shapes who we are and who we might be. Since 2010, the Australian Curriculum has included an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures ...

Australia’s young adults are putting their traditional steps towards adulthood on hold – spending more time living in the parental home. In fact, just over half of young men (54 per cent) and 47 per ...

If you ask most people who they think is most likely to experience loneliness, they will probably describe someone in their later years – perhaps a widowed pensioner or an elderly person with health ...

Back in September last year, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) declared an El Niño and after three soggy years of La Niña conditions, many Australians started thinking about barbeques and beach days ...

Combining travel with remote work was once a relatively niche lifestyle. But these days, digital nomadism has matured into the mainstream. This surge in numbers – a reported 131 per cent growth ...

The UN's 16 days of activism against gender-based violence draws our attention to the number of women who die at the hands of their former or current partner. Many of these women are mothers who leave ...

The Victorian government’s recent announcement that it’s aiming to build 800,000 new houses in a decade might seem very ambitious, but it aims to address a very serious problem. Housing supply in ...

Monolithic in scale and nature, Melbourne’s 47 public housing towers have become aging assets that present great challenges to the state government of Victoria. This has been amplified by Australia’s ...

In Australia, the corporal punishment of children is legal. In all states and territories, parents or carers are permitted to punish children using physical force with the intent to cause some degree ...