As Australia enters 2026, the nation finds itself navigating a period marked by strategic geopolitical pressures, significant disruptions to key export markets, domestic political contention over ...

Written by: Roger Wilkins, Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne Australians are now paying the ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken off at lightning speed in the past couple of years, creating disruption in many industries. Newsrooms are no exception. A new report [1] published ...

Chocolate sales have [1] boomed [2] in recent months. As the cost-of-living crisis bites, consumers are increasingly reaching for chocolate as a simple and affordable [3] pleasure. The most important ...

All this week and into next, Australian Year 12 students are receiving [1] their final results. As an educational psychologist, I know this is a momentous time for many students, as their schooling ...

Mainstream media is often understood as a reflection of national identity [1]. Television media in Australia has documented Australian lives since its inception in 1956. For First Nations people ...

The High Court unanimously ruled today that the Australian government can keep asylum seekers in immigration detention indefinitely in cases where they do not “voluntarily” cooperate with their own ...

The supposed dimensions of the “crisis” in Alice Springs have been exhaustively portrayed in the media, both nationally and in the Northern Territory. The stories abound: shopfront windows repeatedly ...

Easter is the time for chocolate. The shops are full of fantastically packaged and shiny chocolates in all shapes and sizes, making trips to the supermarket with children more challenging than ever.

On the 19th of September, Butchulla dancers and community representatives came together at Kingfisher Bay Resort to celebrate the renaming of Fraser Island to the K’gari (Fraser Island) World Heritage ...

A national Morgan poll [1], conducted March 10–16 from a sample of 2,097, gave Labor a 54.5–45.5 lead by headline respondent preferences, a three-point gain for Labor since the March 3–9 Morgan poll.

A major outage is affecting users of popular social media and messaging services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp around the globe. All these platforms are run by the social media giant Meta ...