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 ...

Most of us like to think that we don’t judge people on their looks. Instead, we assess their character based on their personality, actions and words. Adages like ‘beauty is only skin deep’ and ‘don’t ...

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 ...

Unlike New Zealanders, whose education is rich in Maori language, history and customs, most Australians have only a sketchy understanding of the traditions of their country’s first peoples.

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 ...

When I imagine Antarctica, I think of images of a completely isolated and hard-to-get-to place with lots of penguins, seals and, of course, Sir David Attenborough’s voice narrating in my brain. But ...

Rainforests don’t burn, or do they? At the moment, many of us in Australia are seeing reports of the Queensland wildfires burning down rainforests. Firefighters are battling more than 100 bushfires in ...

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 ...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has come to dominate the media, both domestically and abroad. Alongside increased attention on the pandemic, has come the viral spread of COVID-19 fake news online. Many ...

For many people, having their tonsils removed is a childhood rite of passage. The promise of ice cream and hours of television do make the recovery a much more bearable prospect, even a source of ...

Natural disasters like floods and heat waves demonstrate the real lack of control people have over the environment – although some of those disasters may actually be a consequence of human decisions ...