Monotremes are among the world’s strangest animals, mixing mammalian and reptilian characteristics in the one creature. When British scientists in the 18th Century first saw a platypus they dismissed ...

The Alice Springs crime wave gained widespread coverage in the past week. This crime wave and particularly the data on domestic violence assaults draws attention to a contentious issue that goes ...

The last few weeks have seen an escalation in racially motivated abuse towards people from Asian backgrounds, both here in Australia and around the world. But we’re also seeing this racism spark ...

A statute of Captain Cook in Melbourne, vandalised in a protest about changing the date of ‘Australia Day’. Picture: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images But aside from government sensitivities, history ...

Australians like their pets, and for most of us by far, the dog remains our best friend. For the first time, the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey that covers 17,000 ...

Human beings have five senses – taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell. These senses help us navigate the world and act as warning signs of dangers. We use them to make everyday decisions; for example ...

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 ...

Giraffe spots have interested researchers and natural historians for hundreds of years, and indeed humankind for much longer. In fact, they are a key feature in early rock carvings, including ...

For the family of the woman who recently died from a very rare blood clot after her AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination, it’s no comfort that ‘only’ two people have died despite nearly four million doses ...

Australia is currently facing another “unprecedented” weather event with extreme flooding in Queensland and New South Wales. And thousands of people in flood-affected areas are feeling the impacts of ...

The Australian Black Summer wildfires of 2019-20 were cataclysmic in extent and severity but they were also a landmark in our country’s environmental history. A new book, with contributions from more ...

Houses were fumigated, people quarantined, and entire families ostracised. Desperately worried parents resorted to hanging pungent camphor around their children’s necks in a misguided effort to ward ...